We all understand that there will be many reasons why you’ve chosen ASCL as your trade union. Without question, what members say to us is that it’s the quality of our support to school and college leaders on an individual basis that ranks high on their decision to become an AS...
/Leader/Issues/2023-Autumn-term/Essential-support-for-you 09/11/2023 10:22:17
By Lesley Cooper, former Chair, ASCL Benevolent Fund When I retired from headship in 2006, I had only vague ideas of what I might do next. So, when the opportunity to work for SHA - about to become ASCL- arose, I embarked on a second career as a Union Officer. Nine years ...
/News/Blog/June-2025/The-ASCL-Benevolent-Fund-Protection-and-care-for-a
At this year’s Annual Conference, ASCL launched a year-long project on Ethical Leadership in Education - you can read more about the background to this in Carolyn Roberts' article Shared Values in issue 96 of Leader magazine. This is the final post in a series of eigh...
/Help-and-Advice/Leadership-and-governance/Leading-and-Managing-Staff/Ethical-Leadership/Ethical-Leadership-blog/January-1/What-makes-for-stability-and-trust
“Every year,” the association’s president told conference delegates, “figures show the appalling lack of staff in many schools.” One school, she went on, had been without a senior mathematics teacher for seven years. Another hadn’t been able to recruit a physics teacher for th...
/Leader/Issues/2024-Spring-term/ASCL-influence 26/02/2024 15:05:10
Tell us about your role I’m privileged to be Headteacher at Kingsthorpe College in Northamptonshire, a mixed comprehensive school with just over 1,400 students.   Why did you decide to become an ASCL Council member? I’m the Vice Chair of the Leadership and Governance...
/Leader/Issues/2023-Autumn-term/Back-to-school 09/11/2023 17:53:03
Gentleman. The lavatories are a problem again. Some of the boys are smuggling in clay pipes and it’s upsetting the infants. It took us twice as long to say the Lord’s Prayer yesterday because of all the coughing. At least it’s better than when I started teaching. Then it wa...
/Leader/Issues/2024-Spring-term/Past-Tense 26/02/2024 15:31:57
Symbols, flags, and the meaning of community When St George’s flags began appearing across our town, pupils had questions and some families felt uneasy. One parent wrote to say he no longer felt he belonged on his own street. We chose to address it directly. I began wit...
/Leader/Issues/2026-Spring-term/Shared-values 02/03/2026 15:47:40
Preparation for the National Day Thursday 12 March 2020 Introduction We are very much looking forward to welcoming you to the ICC in Birmingham for our third National Day. The event will be taking place in Hall 6. Full programme and speaker biographies . Mos...
/professional-development/Events/Resources/ASCLPD-NPQEL/ASCL-NPQEL/National-Days/National-Day-3 19/02/2020 14:38:09
What is ASCL Council?  Council is ASCL’s governing body, responsible for directing and controlling the organisation.  It is also the engine room of our policymaking, representing members’ views on issues from curriculum, assessment and inclusion to governance, leadership...
/About-us/Organisation-and-Governance/ASCL-Council/Council-discussions/ASCL-Council-October-2021 15/10/2021 12:48:30
On 15 November, alongside NAHT, we met with executives from TikTok to discuss the horrendous abuse of teachers which has appeared recently in posts on the platform. We were assured that TikTok has a large team working on this issue, that it has taken down hundreds of pieces...
/Help-and-Advice/Leadership-and-governance/Leading-and-Managing-Staff/TikTok-information-guidance-and-resources 18/11/2021 11:08:07
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