Wayfinder: Leading curriculum vision into reality

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Wayfinder: Leading curriculum vision into reality offers a clear framework and method for school leaders to support long lasting curriculum change that is successful and positive for staff and students.

Drawing on a decade of experience of leadership in schools and the armed forces, Matthew Lane guides us through the foundational knowledge to be a successful leader of change. Building on this, we walk through a step-by-step model of delivering change, with classroom examples, and based upon the best research in the field. Covering fields as diverse as design testing, overcoming resistance to change, and using coaching to support staff, Wayfinder is your indispensable guide and framework to leading curriculum change.

Whether you are a new subject lead or an experienced headteacher, this is your essential guide to leading and delivering curriculum change.

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Matthew's synthesis of the key theoreticians in the field of change leadership is impressive ... Rushed change doesn't work: Wayfinder shows us how to give the process justice. -- Mary Myatt, author
W. Edwards Deming, the American industrialist, had a simple rule about change: 'Of all changes I've observed, about 5% were improvements, the rest, at best, were illusions of progress'. In his book Wayfinder, Matthew Lane gives us a practical process for implementing curriculum change which is rooted in theory. Its attention to detail will guide school leaders through the implementation process so that the on-going development of the school curriculum results in genuine improvements which enrich the lives of both teachers and pupils. Read it - it will help you disprove Deming's rule! -- John Tomsett, author
This is an excellent book, exploring leadership through a unique lens and linking leadership at all levels to effective curriculum change and implementation. Wayfinder is an enjoyable, interesting, and ultimately helpful book for educators, one I can wholeheartedly recommend. -- Kate Jones, Evidence Based Education
An informed, sensible, yet inspiring guide to navigating change. Matthew's open but authoritative writing style helps distil years of experience and scholarship into a book I wish had been published before I started my own subject leadership. -- John Semmens, chair of Norfolk SACRE

Author Bio

Matthew is a primary teacher, writer and speaker. His previous career as a Royal Navy officer informs his writing and thinking on curriculum, leadership and change. He believes that every teacher is a leader and that schools can be transformed through their leadership.
An award-winning Religious Education lead, Matthew has contributed to national projects including ReformingRE, Big Ideas and the RE Council's Religion and Worldviews Project.