“…Whilst it might be argued that agency, efficacy and resilience are characteristics of the self that new teachers need to bring with them to the profession, a number of writers draw attention to the importance of the institutional context (Burn et al, 2010;Carver and Meier, 2013) and the quality, availability and stability of school-based support (Knight and Moore, 2012;Muijs et al, 2013;Roness, 2011) in enabling ECTs to be inducted as teachers and to begin to develop as leaders. This support might take a variety of forms, for example, facilitating the involvement of ECTs in peer support (Keogh et al, 2012), communities of practice (Lambson, 2010;Newman, 2010), collaborative decision-making (Nolan and Palazzolo, 2011) or professional mentoring (Knight and Moore, 2012). Structured induction programmes, formal support at key developmental stages and 'day-to-day peer support' (Hulme and Menter 2014, 677) all matter.…”