Heads of Department play a pivotal role in shaping a school’s learning culture. Middle Leaders Power Up is your practical companion for leading reflective, evidence-informed innovation within your team.

This guide helps you move beyond management — towards leadership that builds collective capacity, fosters curiosity, and creates lasting impact in classrooms.

Grounded in research and filled with in-school examples, it turns leadership theory into actionable strategies for real-world change.

What You’ll Learn:

  • How to build your team’s capacity for innovation through trust, reflection, and shared inquiry.
  • Ways to balance structure and exploration in teaching — integrating explicit and inquiry-based approaches.
  • Practical leadership moves for creating collaborative, reflective departmental cultures.
  • Frameworks for leading pedagogical growth and evidence-informed improvement.
  • Tools and prompts to turn everyday meetings into engines for professional learning.

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