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Global evidence concludes that improving the quality of school leadership is one of the most powerful tools available to education policymakers: build the capacity of school principals to lead change in schools, and higher student achievement surely follows. With this is mind, EdDevTrust considers the case of England, where the quality of school leadership across more than 20,000 schools has been transformed through an integrated set of policy choices.

Lucy Crehan, associate for Education Development Trust, comments on how other countries have succeeded in placing good teachers in rural schools.

Susy Ndaruhutse, former Head of International Development and Education reflects on when Education Development Trust (then CfBT) was first invited to Rwanda in 2001 – 7 years after the genocide that killed around 1 million Rwandans. Her remit was to support the ministry of education rebuild the country's education system.

What happens when strategic leaders from more than 20 local education systems across England come together to discuss education reform? This thinkpiece captures the questions raised, their implications and some possible solutions.

This thinkpiece by Steve Munby and Michael Fullan takes a fresh look at leadership in education – and in particular the promising role of the middle leader.