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Leadership Floorbooks

Collaborative strategies for educational excellence

Written by Dr Claire Warden, this book will transform your team’s learning into a cohesive approach - capture decisions, reflect deeply, inspire collaboration, and drive powerful, lasting leadership growth.

Leadership Floorbooks begins with core ideas, strategies, and theories, then dives deeply into practical methods for fostering inquiry-driven, collaborative teamwork in education. Claire has created a Floorbooks Framework that makes self-evaluation and the process of Quality Improvement joyful.

It features an overview mind map at the start of each section for speed of access and includes case studies written from a leadership perspective for inspiration. It provides practical strategies set out very clearly for you to use straight away along with ideas to support your reflective practice.

Ages: 0-6 | Pages: 130 | Code: TS0346 | ISBN: 9781923193420
Series: Floorbooks

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Claire Warden

Claire Warden is an educational consultant who has developed her approach to nature pedagogy and experiential learning through a variety of experiences. Her experiences have taken her on a pathway that includes working in a variety of types of centre, advisory work, and lecturing in further education.

Introduction: The power of collaborative leadership

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The changing landscape of educational leadership4
Relational thinking through collaborative and distributed leadership5
Introducing Floorbooks and their role in leadership6
Overview of this book7

Part 1: Foundations of Leadership Floorbooks

8

Chapter 1: What is a Leadership Floorbook?9
Chapter 2: Benefits of using Floorbooks in leadership21
Chapter 3: Creating and managing a Leadership Floorbook31

Part 2: Collaborative strategies for educational excellence

34

Chapter 4: Building a culture of collaboration35
Chapter 5: Empowering team members42

Part 3: Implementing Leadership Floorbooks

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Chapter 6: Setting up your first Leadership Floorbook47
Chapter 7: Engaging team members in the process52
Chapter 8: Using visual tools and mind maps58
Chapter 9: Documenting reflective practice65

Part 4: Quality improvement through Leadership Floorbooks

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Chapter 10: Using Leadership Floorbooks for continuous improvement72
Chapter 11: Tracking progress and measuring success77
Chapter 12: Adapting strategies based on Floorbook insights91

Part5:Stakeholder engagement

97

Chapter 13: Involving children, families and community98
Chapter 14: Capturing diverse perspectives104

Part 6: Professional development and growth

108

Chapter 15: Using Floorbooks for staff development109
Chapter 16: Mentoring and coaching through Floorbooks114
Chapter 17: Encouraging innovation and curiosity118

Conclusion

125

Glossary

126

Country-specific requirements and guidance for inspection and quality

improvement

128

References

130

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