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Leadership of Learning, Teaching and Assessment

“Educational leadership matters. We know that the excellence of a school’s leadership is linked to the learning and achievement of its students. We also know that without it, school improvement is impossible, or at least impossible to sustain.” Viviane Robinson

Effective leadership is key to high quality learning teaching and assessment.
In response to feedback from inspections across the Northern Alliance and data gathered at local authority and school/setting level, we have worked together to identify specific aspects of leadership which we need to improve:

Building trust and working together as a team to improve learning, teaching and assessment
Using and applying educational knowledge to improve learning, teaching and assessment
Solving complex problems through collaboration and effective use of data

Adapted from Viviane Robinson, Virtuous Educational Leadership (2023)

Using this information, head teachers and local authority central team members have collaborated to develop a suite of leadership resources to support high quality learning, teaching and assessment. These resources consist of:

An overview of ‘Leadership of Learning Teaching and Assessment’, including hyperlinks to relevant resources and examples of effective practice
Self-evaluation resource
Professional learning
Resources to support practice
Examples of effective practice from leaders across the Northern Alliance and beyond
Wider reading and research