1. Leadership

• All studies into the effectiveness of schools and other organisations stress the importance of leadership
• For schools, the leadership comprises all those who have a responsibility for ensuring that the school effectively and efficiently meets its goals
• This leadership role is very evident in the senior staff and those holding promoted posts. However, within the context of the classroom, every teacher is also a leader of the children in their care
• The senior school leadership has two key roles. Their most important role is to create the vision and values for the school and to develop an organisational culture that enables the attainment of their vision
• The second role for the school leadership is to create organisational structures, systems and procedures through which the school organises itself to deliver its vision.

2. Culture

• The ‘vision’ is an ideal view, held by those in the school, of the kind of school they are trying to create
• Key elements in the vision are the values the school will seek to promote – what it considers to be important, its conception of right and wrong, the nature of relationships between staff and between staff and pupils and so on
• The school’s organisational culture is founded in the values and attitudes of the members of the school community. It is articulated in the implicit rules and expectations that prevail in the school and the behaviours these produce.

3. Leadership and Culture

• It is the role of the school leadership to create a culture that enables the school to reach its goals with efficiency and effectiveness
• In a rapidly changing world, it is vital that the school’s organisational culture is such that it enables the school to continue to reach its goals whilst responding to the numerous demands on it to change.

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