ASCL publications

To order a copy of a publication please email bookorders@ascl.org.uk and include the title, your name, address and quantity required. Your order and an invoice will be mailed to you, all prices include postage and packaging.

Managing staffing reductions
Date: July 2010 Price: £10
Original text by Brian Unwin, 2001
Revised by Richard Bird, ASCL Legal Specialist, 2010
The information in this book applies specifically to schools but the core legal and human considerations pertain to colleges as well. It may also help college colleagues to understand the issues for schools that are engaged in joint enterprises with them.

Distributing and sustaining leadership
Date: February 2010 Price: £18
Edited by Keith Cox
Contributors: John Keller, Joan McVittie, Arthur Barzey, Remo Iafrate, Marcia Twelftree, Graeme Hornsby, Ian Bradbury
This book draws on contributions from ASCL members to give a practitioner’s view of how various issues will impact on school and college leadership.

Raising standards through effective CPD
Date: February 2009 Price: £15
The need for the highest quality leadership and management of continuing professional development (CPD) has never been greater. Almost invariably in schools and colleges today it is a key feature in the job description of one of the senior leadership team whose role impinges on every single member of the workforce.

New to the leadership team
Date: March 2008  Price: £18
Authors: Harvey Black and Jill Clough
While the possibilities can be hugely exciting for those of you new to the leadership team, the challenges and scope of responsibility can be equally daunting, especially for those who have moved quickly through the ranks. We hope this book will help you to prepare for and become more comfortable and confident in your new role.

Achieving more together: Adding value through partnership
Date: January 2008 Price: £25
Author: Robert Hill
This book develops several of the principles of sustainable leadership set out in Robert's first book, Leadership that lasts, but especially the wider leadership of the system being exercised by a rapidly increasing number of ASCL members.

Alive and kicking: Case studies in teaching foreign languages
Date: March 2007  Price: £12
Authors: Sue Webb, Jim Donnelly, Maria Sharratt, Andres Simpson, Matthew Morris, Nigel Clemens, Jenni Hall, Peter Kent, Annabel Kay, Benn Warren and Elin Owen
The case studies gathered together in this publication demonstrate that, whatever external strategies or levers are in place the greatest impact comes from the enthusiastic teacher.

Leading an extended school
Date: November 2006 Price: £16
Editor: Malcolm Noble
The extended schools agenda is one of the great unknowns challenges facing schools this decade, and its true impact on schools is still up for debate.