The Leadership and Governance Pack brings together the tools that help leaders and governors show clear, evidence-led leadership: evidence maps, a leadership narrative, governor reporting and challenge, and practical guidance for tricky governance moments. Built by practising school leaders in the HeadteacherChat community.
What's inside
- How to use the pack: where to start and what to do first
- Leadership evidence map and leadership evidence ecosystem map
- Monitoring and evaluation cycle template
- Leadership narrative template
- Summary of inspection expectations for leadership
- Leadership and governance: clarity, capacity and impact, a one-hour development session (PowerPoint), with its agenda
- Governor report template (Word and PDF)
- Checklist for effective governance and accountability in schools
- Questions inspectors ask governors under the renewed framework
- When governors drift into operations: an action plan for managing difficult governor relations (Word and PDF)
- Using AI safely in schools: a strategic AI governance framework (Word and PDF)
- Staff meeting: responding to parental complaints (PowerPoint)
Delivered as one zip file of editable Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents. Adapt the wording to your own school, trust or local authority context before use.
Part of the HeadteacherChat community library. Members get this pack, every other pack and every update when guidance changes, alongside live sessions and more than 1,400 fellow school leaders. Join the community.
