"As much as I have been uncomfortable at times through the last two years, it is hard to be anything other than thankful that we did that TV show."
So says Vic Goddard, describing life after the multi-award-winning TV series Educating Essex, a fly-on-the-wall documentary about life in his Essex comprehensive school. But this isn't a book about a television series, it's about being a head teacher fighting tooth and nail to give children the sort of education that will genuinely help them to make something of their lives.
This is a book about running a school, about the purpose of education, about becoming a leader, about family, about love. It's a book about having the best job in the world.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Foreword by Ian Gilbert Acknowledgements Introduction Part one 1 If I Can Do It, Anyone Can 2 Twitter Chatter 3 The Great TV Experiment 4 The Aftermath 5 'I Don't Want to be a Head Teacher' 6 It's a Lonely Life, or Is It? 7 Self-Doubt 8 Change for Change's Sake? 9 From Government to Governors 10 The Five P's of Successful Leadership 11 The Path to Headship Part two 12 The Gordon Ramsay-Style School Improvement Model 13 The Menu, or Curriculum 14 Sacking the Head Chef, or Getting the Right People On the Bus Before Deciding Who's Driving 15 Asking the Customers, or How Do We Provide for the Community? 16 Painting It White, or Giving the Students the Environment They Deserve 17 Our Ethos 18 Our Vision at Passmores
