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How Leaders Make a Difference

Learning-centred leadership is a set of strategies that influence the quality of learning and teaching in classrooms.

Leading learning and raising standards and pupils’ achievements are the most important things schools leaders do. Therefore, research at the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) has concentrated on studying how leaders make a difference.

We have worked closely with several hundred school leaders to test out together the ideas set out in this website and in both learning-centred leadership packs. We are confident that what we describe here plays a major part in making school leadership successful.

Since the first pack of materials was launched, we have continued to explore how leaders influence the quality of learning and teaching in schools. We have also investigated how improving pupils’ learning is becoming increasingly personalised.