Autorentext

Nicola Brooks is an established leader within specialist education with experience of whole trust leadership. She has been teaching for 20 years in both mainstream and special schools. Nicola is passionate about developing people and culture, with a particular focus on staff and leadership development.

Nicola Whitcombe is an experienced SEND Headteacher, Trust Regional Director and School Improvement Advisor. As a former Senco, she is driven by a passion to ensure pupils with additional needs thrive and achieve their potential through high aspirations and exceptional teaching.

Klappentext

SEN-sational Leadership is the essential guide to transformative leadership in special education. Tailored for both new and experienced leaders, it offers practical guidance and strategies to both enhance the quality of education and successfully grow specialist provisions.

Covering key topics such as the curriculum, culture, parental engagement, and personal development, the book provides a thorough overview of leading specialist settings. Drawing upon the authors' own rich experiences and conversations with specialist colleagues, chapters include inspiring real-life examples, practical strategies and prompts to help the reader develop their own leadership and provision. It provides a framework for improving and growing sustainable specialist settings, underpinned by empathetic, collaborative and innovative leadership, which can be adapted to different educational contexts.

Written by current special school senior leaders, the book brings credible and authentic perspectives on what it means to lead and grow a successful specialist provision. It will be essential reading for all those looking to become a sensational system leader of SEND.

Inhalt

1. What Makes You Special? Finding your identity as a leader and a provision 2. From Vision to Impact: Developing Curriculum in Specialist Settings 3. Pedagogy: Teaching Every Learner 4. Assessment: Small Steps, Big Success 5. Building Safe, Independent Lives: Personal Development and Preparation for Adulthood 6. Therapy First: Developing a therapeutic culture 7. Attracting, Keeping and Caring For Great People 8. Everyone a SEND Practitioner: Staff Development 9. Every family matters: building parental and family engagement 10. Growing Specialist Provisions through People and Place 11. Beyond Your School Gate: partnerships, community and SEND system leadership