ABSTRACT
Middle managers play a vital role in school improvement. We use the term ‘middle manager’ to describe all those teachers working in schools who have some kind of management responsibility for a team of staff, or an aspect of the school’s work, below the level of the head teacher and senior management team. The term is only loosely definable and there are many variations in school management structures, both within the UK and across the world. For some, even the head teacher is a manager in a ‘middle’ position between the school governing body, or local authority and the staff.
