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Happy students = success

Senior leadership
Inspired by a recent book on overcoming challenges as a headteacher, Karen Sullivan is heartened by the confirmation that student happiness is the top priority for so many leaders – ensure happy students and exam success will follow...

I was recently sent a book called Heads Up: The challenges facing England’s leading head teachers by Dominic Carmen. Everyone likes a little bit of insight into how other people/schools do things, and for this reason I like this book very much.

One of the things that I immediately noticed were chapters on Leadership and Happy Children, and I was gratified to see that these two were intrinsically linked in the eyes of most heads. Indeed, most heads considered themselves to be successful when their students were happy and engaged – not when they hit the highest echelons of Those Cursed League Tables (another chapter).

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