Unravelling the leadership recipe

David Gurr

By David Gurr
Community contribution / August 2, 2016

I have been in an academic role at The University of Melbourne for 20 years. Through teaching and research I have engaged with thousands of school leaders and researchers, here and throughout the world, discussing and exploring what successful school leaders do.

Over this time, there is now consensus that leadership matters to schools.

Not only does it matter, but also there ...

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David Gurr is Associate Professor in educational leadership at the Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne. d.gurr@unimelb.edu.au

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