Leadership

As part of our focus on organisational health, we’ve shifted the mandate of our leaders to make sure they’re partnering with the right team at the right time to get the right work done: our first artefact in that is that we’re doing away with job titles for our executive. All of our leaders will be known as school and college trust leaders. 

Externally, our leaders can call themselves whatever they want. This is an endeavour to move away from status, negative impacts of ego, and the fear of not knowing an answer – and towards deferring to the expertise of others, agile decision making, and the chance to achieve wholeness – to shape our roles in ways that mean we can best serve our communities. 

High quality leadership empowers teachers to teach and enables students to learn. Many of our academy leaders are home-grown and we work hard to retain and develop our very best talent. We also recruit leaders externally who align closely with our mission and values. Our principals' main focus is to improve the life chances of their own students. They work with the support of other principals and our school and college trust leaders, and also in partnership with them for the good of all Dixons students and staff across our trust.