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Map-making: Forming a leadership vision for your school 

Senior leadership Leadership/school profiles Whole-school issues
As a school leader, you need to have a vision, but how can you form something meaningful and impactful? Robbie Burns discusses ‘vision as map-making’ and how you can form your own vision
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Vision is important, yet the precise nature of it is so often overlooked, undervalued or glossed over so that the “real” work of leadership can begin.

This sometimes can mean that leaders do not take the casting of vision seriously enough, or worse they misinterpret what it means to enlist and gather others around a compelling outlook for the future that can be worked towards.

That is why it is so important to have a strong understanding of this core leadership concept and the steps leaders ought to take. And even if it is something “we know already”, it is worth a fresh look (using some new metaphors!) to bring it more sharply into focus.

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