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This data collection includes 13 interview transcripts and reported results(posters). There are the result of a sustained participatory approach, in the form of meetings, workshops and school leader led inquiries. The purpose was to disseminate new, bespoke knowledge about effective leadership for learning practices within and across the academies. A communications strategy has been developed during the project to maximise its impact on leaders of the wider schools’ community.This is achieved through a public facing website which will be scoped, designed and built using the university’s content management system. A regional conference will bring together key stakeholders from participating academies and beyond, local authorities personnel, national policy and head teachers’ organisations and academics towards the end of the project. A School-University Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Network’ will be established to enable sustained dialogue amongst practitioners themselves and between practitioners, academics and policy makers.

The aim of this knowledge exchange project is to promote the application of the accumulated academic knowledge on effective leadership for learning to the work activities of a head teacher and senior leadership team of one secondary academy and the head teachers of seven primary teaching school alliance schools. All these schools serve socioeconomically disadvantaged urban communities.