Guidance for school managers

Role of school management

School management provides the conditions under which colleagues can make progress towards the aims of the programme. Without management's active support, progress will be minimal and short-term. The active support of school management can involve one or more of the following:

• agreeing to support the project and the teachers involved
• nominating a mentor for the project who will be responsible for facilitating arrangements for collaboration, for monitoring progress, and for consolidating and disseminating good practice which emerges
• ring-fencing the time teachers need for working together outside the classroom
• arranging the timetable so that the teachers can work together with a given class, for the duration of the project
• supporting applications for additional resources which may be required.