Defining Middle Leadership

Focus on learning and teaching

Generate positive relationships
Provide clear vision and high expectations
Improve the learning environment
Provide opportunities for collaboration
Distribute leadership
Engage the community
Evaluate and innovate
Fleming, 2014
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► Middle leaders occupy a pivotal position in relation to
change and restructuring in the education system and
within their schools and colleges. One of the themes we
identify from the research findings is the existence of
enduring pressures for continuity of practice. There are
capacities at the middle leadership level to resist and/or
creatively adapt change, and how this works out in
practice is strongly influenced by contextual factors as
well as the responses and agency of middle leaders
themselves. This question of resistance and adaptation is
intimately connected to interrelated issues of
accountability, autonomy and professionality.
► Middle leaders, the engine room of the school, sit at the heart of this drive.
They lead teams of teachers – turning senior leadership's strategy into
outstanding classroom practice on a daily basis. They are closer to the action
than senior leaders. High-performing middle leaders drive consistent teacher
quality in their areas of responsibility through curriculum leadership, data
analysis to identify pupil underperformance, lesson observations, holding staff
to account and developing staff. They also ensure consistency across the
school by collaborating and challenging their fellow middle leaders,
influencing whole school behaviours through sharing, coaching and mentoring.
► Middle management refers to managers who are below the top
level of management, and who are responsible for controlling
 and running an organization rather than making decisions
 about how it operates.

COBUILD Advanced English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

► An employee of an organization or business who manages at

least one subordinate level of managers, and reports to a
higher level of managers within the organization. The duties of
a middle manager typically include carrying out the strategic
directives of upper-level managers at the operational level,
supervising subordinate managers and employees to ensure
smooth functioning of the enterprise.
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