1st Edition
SEN-sational Leadership Leading a Successful and Sustainable Specialist Provision
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
Biography
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.
“Written by two talented school leaders who have truly walked the walk in their own thriving specialist setting, this incredibly practical handbook will ease your path forward like a trusted friend. Through case studies, thinking points and first-person accounts, this book is an invaluable one-stop shop in how to offer exceptional school leadership in the current educational landscape.”
Dean Beadle, Autistic Advocate and Speaker
