Social Red Bull: Exploring energy relationships in a School District Leadership Team (2016)
Journal Article
Daly, A., Liou, Y., & Brown, C. (2016). Social Red Bull: Exploring energy relationships in a School District Leadership Team. Harvard educational review, 86(3), 412-448. https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-86.3.412

n this article, Alan J. Daly, Yi-Hwa Liou, and Chris Brown explore the idea of positive affective arousal through “energy exchange relationships” within a district leadership team. Education leaders have long been expected to be not only effective le... Read More about Social Red Bull: Exploring energy relationships in a School District Leadership Team.

Is engaging in evidence‐informed practice in education rational? What accounts for discrepancies in teachers' attitudes towards evidence use and actual instances of evidence use in schools? (2016)
Journal Article
Brown, C., & Zhang, D. (2016). Is engaging in evidence‐informed practice in education rational? What accounts for discrepancies in teachers' attitudes towards evidence use and actual instances of evidence use in schools?. British Educational Research Journal, 45(5), 780-801. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3239

Whilst beneficial, the consistent and regular use of evidence to improve teaching and learning in schools is proving difficult to achieve in practice. This paper attempts to shed new light on this issue by examining the applicability of a model of ra... Read More about Is engaging in evidence‐informed practice in education rational? What accounts for discrepancies in teachers' attitudes towards evidence use and actual instances of evidence use in schools?.

How can school leaders establish evidence informed schools: an analysis of the effectiveness of potential school policy levers (2016)
Journal Article
Brown, C., & Zhang, D. (2016). How can school leaders establish evidence informed schools: an analysis of the effectiveness of potential school policy levers. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 45(3), 382-401. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741143215617946

This article has three aims: first, it examines the notion of evidence-informed practice and its benefits, as well as recent educational policy designed to promote schools’ use of evidence. Second, it examines four distinct but overlapping and interd... Read More about How can school leaders establish evidence informed schools: an analysis of the effectiveness of potential school policy levers.

Improving Trust, Improving Schools: Findings from a Social Network Analysis of 43 Primary Schools in England (2016)
Journal Article
Brown, C., Daly, A., & Liou, Y. (2016). Improving Trust, Improving Schools: Findings from a Social Network Analysis of 43 Primary Schools in England. Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 1(1), 69-91. https://doi.org/10.1108/jpcc-09-2015-0004

Purpose: Many governments worldwide are now promoting the importance of research-informed efforts at improvement. At the same time research is yet to make sustained impact on the practices of teachers. Given the importance of the issue and the lack o... Read More about Improving Trust, Improving Schools: Findings from a Social Network Analysis of 43 Primary Schools in England.