School Leadership That Works
SCHOOL LEADERSHIP THAT WORKS is drawn from real testimony gathered
across dozens of school leadership workshops —
the honest confessions directors, board members, head teachers, and
teachers only make when no one is grading them and the cameras are
off. Not theory. Not imported management jargon. The actual patterns
that make private schools collapse — and the ones that make them last.
IF ANY OF THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU:
→ You built the school. Now you can't tell the difference between
owning it and running it — and your staff can feel it.
→ You're a board member who wants to help, but you're not sure where
governance ends and meddling begins.
→ You're a head teacher caught between a director's demands and a
staffroom that's quietly losing faith in leadership.
→ You've watched a good school start to wobble and you can't quite
name why.
WHAT'S INSIDE
22 chapters across 6 Parts:
PART I — The Leadership Crisis: Why Schools Collapse from the Top
PART II — The Leader's Mindset: From Owner to Steward
PART III — Leading People: Teachers as Assets, Not Tools
PART IV — Leading Systems: Operations, Policy, and Structure
PART V — The Board and Governance: Oversight Without Suffocation
PART VI — The Vision: Leadership That Outlasts the Founder
Every single chapter ends with two things you can act on immediately —
not just read and forget:
THE FIX — a specific action to take this week
THE CHECKPOINT — a question that forces an honest answer
You'll also get three working appendices most books leave out:
- The Board Member's One-Page Brief — photocopy it and hand it to
every new board member at inauguration
- Discussion Questions for Workshop Use — turn any Part into a
ready-made 90-minute training session for your staff or board
- A Note on Methodology — how the testimony behind this book was
gathered, and how it was protected
WHY THE FORMAT MATTERS
This isn't a scanned PDF of a print book. It's built digital-first:
6×9" layout, large type, generous spacing, a single easy-reading
column, and a full clickable table of contents — so it's genuinely
comfortable to read on your phone on a boda-boda, your tablet in a
staff meeting, or your laptop at your desk. Instant download the
moment you buy it.
WHO WROTE THIS
Allan Richie has spent years photographing school life across
Uganda — graduations, sports days, groundbreakings, and the quiet
ordinary mornings in between — which has taken him into countless
leadership workshops where directors, headteachers, board members,
and education consultants gather to talk honestly about what is and
isn't working. This book is drawn directly from that field, not from
a lecture hall.
Also in the series by Allan Richie: Teaching That Transforms,
The Modern Teacher, Customer Care in Education, Policies That
Transform, The Weight of the School, The Boardroom and the
Blackboard, Take Up the Torch, The Enrollment Engine — and more.
Bulk pricing for schools, associations, and dioceses, and workshop
bookings, are available on request.
📞 +256 753 949 555 ✉️ [email protected] 🌐 richiekey.com