What happens after Headship?
Plenty of head teachers want to stay in the job for as long as they can; they went into headship for a reason, and that hasn’t changed. Others, however, will find themselves looking for a new challenge – or perhaps a new way of working – after a successful career in school leadership. The NAHT has some options...
- Life after Headship: Government and Inspection Ofsted Inspector. This is the fourth in a series of articles looking at some of the roles that head teachers take on when they leave teaching.
- Life after headship: Academics and Writers Academics. Difficult to break into, not terribly lucrative and, in some cases, not particularly stable: sometimes its surprising that anyone would leave a career as well-paid and rewarding as headship for the life of an academic or even a professional writer. But, of course, they do.
- Life after Headship: Interims and Consultants. One of the most common post-headship careers is consultancy: working as an adviser to schools, government or business, either independently or as an employee of a big education service provider. Another growing and closely related area is interim headship, in which experienced leaders run schools that need someone at the wheel while they recruit a permanent replacement.
- Is there life after Headship? For Head teachers, leaving their school is a chance for a fresh start, which could mean anything from setting up their own business to using their leadership skills in a different type of organisation. In this, the first of the series, Carly Chynoweth examines the options for head teachers considering moving on.