FOCUSED SCHOOLS FULL

FOCUSED SCHOOLS FULL

Linking strategy with sustainability, Leading the Strategically Focused School is full of wonderful conceptual tools, and practical case vignettes. 'Brent Davies tackles the much misunderstood and abused concept of strategy and gets great results. Knox School Focused Youth Service works with schools and community-based agencies to support students in Years 5 to 12 to remain engaged in their education. Sir Tim Brighouse, Educational Consultant and & Visiting Professor, Institute of Education, London, UK It will have a similar effect on all those who read it.' You can't ask for much more from a book that it contributes and extends your own thinking. For me as reviewer there's cause to think more critically about measures of schools success. 'With an ever widening circle of followers among school principals and headteachers, has an enviable capacity to write engagingly and is one of those all-too-rare educational writers whose theory springs from the close and discerning observation of practice. Michael Fullan, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto An inspiration and invitation to take action for the good of all' This book is both conceptual and practical, and takes all the excuses off the table. 'Brent Davies tackles the much misunderstood and abused concept of strategy and achieves great results. It will have a similar effect on all those who read it' For me, as reviewer there's cause to think more critically about measures of schools success.

'With an ever widening circle of followers among school principals and headteachers, Brent Davies has an enviable capacity to write engagingly and is one of those all-too-rare educational writers whose theory springs from the close and discerning observation of practice.

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