Tweak to Transform Improving teaching: a practical handbook for school leaders

Improving teaching is the key to genuine and sustainable school improvement. Improvement involves persuading teachers to change and develop their practice. This book focusses on what principals and school leaders can do to manage the change process and improve the quality of teaching in a school. Essentially, "Tweak to Transform" is a practical handbook that seeks to address three questions: what do we know about change?; what do we know about learning? what do we know about leading and managing the improvement process? this book attempts to establish some key principles. The result is a collection of thoughts, activities, strategies and models that have been developd and successfully implemented in a wide range of schools.

Mike Hughes has extensive experience of working with teachers. During an eighteen year teaching career, he worked as a head of department, deputy head and head teacher, and spent time working in an advisory capacity for Gloucestershire LEA in the field of teaching and learning. He is now advising and supporting a wide variety of schools in their efforts to improve teaching quality, both working at strategic leadership level and coaching individual teachers in the classroom Having led a large secondary school, David Potter spent fifteen years in LEA advisory services, the last five of them as Chief Advisor in Gloucestershire. He is a Registered OFSTED Inspector, a Performance Management Consultant and a trainer on the NPQH programme