Exploring School Leadership in England and the Caribbean

- What drives school leaders?<br/>- What do they do on a day to day basis?<br/>- What helps or constrains their decision-making?<br/>- What keeps them focused amidst challenges?<br/>Rather than applying theory to practice <i>Exploring School Leadership in England and the Caribbean</i> draws on how school leaders practice and experience their own leadership. Paul Miller draws on case studies from Jamaica and England to explore what it means to be a school leader and explores a wide-range of issues including accountability performativity inclusion and multiculturalism technology staffing and resourcing decisions. <br/>While no two school leaders will have identical experiences as a school leader Paul Miller draws on the first-hand accounts of school leaders to show that regardless of school size type and location there are a number of common experiences and themes. Miller acknowledges that the practice of school leadership is occurring in an uncertain economic environment buoyed by a fast paced policy context where by targets linked to national economic development are the new normal. He concludes that school leadership is a continuous balancing act driven by and experienced through an Economic-motor model+? of schooling- which he proposes.