Created on: 12 Mar 2012 | Last modified: 03 Sep 2015
• Local authorities should, through professional development, encourage all teachers to see themselves as leaders in the classroom including leading pupil learning and leading particular projects in the school.
• Local authorities should encourage genuine collegiality among teachers and all staff in the school, ensuring they have a voice which is listened to and which influences decision making in the school.
• Headteachers should be fully supported by their employers in the important work they undertake, including through high quality professional development throughout their careers. Every school should have its own headteacher.
• The comprehensive school should besupported and encouraged to develop.Alternative models of running schoolsbeing developed in England and in some other European countries should not be imposed upon the system in Scotland, and local authorities must not use alternative educational proposals as a mask to hide budget cuts.
• All local authorities must work constructively with government to ensure that national priorities are fully delivered at a local level.
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