10 things everyone should know about great school leaders

Teaching is one of the few professions where, as you progress and climb the educational ladder, the job you are doing begins to become almost unrecognisable. The daily routine of the full time class teacher slowly starts to fade and in its place is something that begins to resemble a desk job, with a never ending list of things to do that perhaps most class teachers are not even aware of. The irony often is, the better you are at teaching and the better the results of your students, the quicker and higher you travel. And whilst the situation is improving, there is only beginning to be some decent transition training; and little preparation. The rise upwards can often come with raw experience.