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President of the Association of School and College Leaders Joan McVittie said expectations of heads had never been higher.
Ms McVittie told the conference in Birmingham that heads were required to be moral leaders, risk takers, media experts, creative accountants, prophets and networkers.
Earlier she told journalists that heads were also leading schools that were the last bastion of "old fashioned values and discipline", teaching children "rational and restrained ways of dealing with conflict".
In the area of London where she is head, four fifths of pupils have English as an additional language and different ways of settling disputes.
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