Leading from the front: Lessons in leadership and sustainable change

Abstract

Starting a new position in a new school with a mandate to develop inquiry learning meant this author had to be mindful of his first impressions of where teachers ‘were at’. However, the more he got to know the teachers and his new context, the more he learned and was achieved. In this paper readers are encouraged to suspend their initial judgments of colleagues as they seek to develop supportive and collaborative ways of working together, and sensitive ways to lead change.