“I Don’t Want to Lose My Kids”: The Impetus for Middle Leaders to Knock Down the Ladder In this blog, Caitlin Lamont challenges the kind of neoliberal individualism that so often shapes professional life, where success is assumed to mean continual progression, competition, and advancement up an organisational hierarchy...
The Hidden Cost of ‘Fitting in’: Unmasking Aesthetic Labour in Educational Leadership In this blog, George Panayiotou challenges assumptions about professionalism in education by examining the hidden pressures educators face to “look and sound the part”...
Leading Through Backlash: What UK and US Educational Leaders Can Learn from Each Other In this blog, George Panayiotou explores how educational leaders in the UK and US experience and respond to stakeholder backlash in contrasting policy and governance contexts...
Rethinking LGBTQ Leadership: Lessons from Chinese SchoolsIn this blog, Weiyuan Wu and Catherine Atkinson-Ross challenge familiar assumptions about LGBTQ educational leadership by exploring leadership in contexts where LGBTQ visibility is neither straightforward nor necessarily safe...
When Universities Misread Silence: A Leadership Lesson from a Classroom in East Jerusalem Drawing on a classroom encounter in East Jerusalem, Omar Mizel reflects on how silence can be misread as disengagement, when it may instead signal attentiveness, reflection, respect, or culturally different ways of learning...
When Professional Development Really Works: Five Key Conditions for School LeadersIn this blog, Els Tanghe draws on doctoral research involving 146 school leaders from 69 schools in Flanders, Belgium, to explore five key conditions that support meaningful leadership development and sustainable school improvement...