Stephen Codrington has written three cutting-edge books to support school boards and executive leaders in their roles of governance and management.

All three books focus specifically on schools and their distinctive challenges. They draw upon Stephen’s extensive experience over many decades as both School Principal and Board Chair in several countries, as well as his current work supporting many school boards and leaders across the world in areas such as strategic planning, performance reviews, policy development, change management, crisis response, workshops on ‘best practice’, etc.

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This handbook provides school boards and school leaders with a comprehensive manual of best practice in the area of governance.

It can be used to amplify workshops conducted by Stephen Codrington, or as a board orientation manual in its own right.

Unlike other books on governance, this book focuses entirely on the distinctive nature of school boards and school leadership.

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For several years, Stephen Codrington has periodically published online articles on school leadership and governance to support school leaders in their important work.

This book brings together a highly readable 530-page enhanced collection of 115 of these articles, making them available to an even wider audience of educators in an easily accessible format.  Colour illustrations throughout with a full index.

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“Insights” is a 292-page budget version of the full “Daring Insights” book.  It contains a sub-set of 72 insights from Daring Insight’s full collection of 115 insights.  In order to keep the price as low as possible, photos and diagrams are presented in black-and-white rather than colour, there is no index, and several of the expansions and enhancements in “Daring Insights” are absent.