The leadership of a group of schools working together as a single legal entity and under a single governance structure is a new field of inquiry. This paper in our Bridge To The Future series makes the case for new domains of educational leadership emerging from this field.
The first domain is about Organisational Leadership: this is leadership of the school trust – the group of schools in a single legal entity operating under a single governance structure.
The second domain is about Civic Leadership: how trust leaders work with others to advance education as a wider common good.
The third domain is about System Leadership: not in the old definition of ‘working beyond the school gates’, but rather how trust leaders need to act on, rather than just acting in the system.
