After a while away from this blog, I am coming back to it with some further thoughts. I am reading a book called "The Leaders We Deserved (and a few we didn't)". It's a fascinating rating of American presidents judging them on character, vision, competence, economic policy, preserving and extending liberty and foreign policy. The author's top four are Lincoln, Washington, Teddy Roosevelt and Reagan.

It got me thinking what criteria we could use for leaders in education. I would certainly include character, competence and vision. Economic policy becomes use of resources, preserving and extending liberty perhaps becomes enhancing children's life chances and foreign policy becomes developing and maintaining partnerships. 

I would be interested in any thoughts on this.