International PLC: A case study.New York

Focus: tackling disadvantage…

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people…Jefferson.

Criteria for judging the effectiveness of an

IPLCImpact on pupil learning

Impact on staff morale and practice, with potential for developing leadership capacity

Impact on culture ‘the way we do things around here’…this was my initial focus for the trip…

Children’s Aid SocietyNational Centre for Community

Schools

The focus for this organisation as a charity is to organise the resources of the community around student success…they define community schools as having:o Extended services.o Extended hours.o Extended relationships.

Children's Aid Society

Solid Research Base…things they know after 20 years of doing…this is what they advocate.

• Importance of ongoing support and opportunities to children’s development

• Importance of parental involvement to children’s school success

• Importance of non-school hours to children’s learning and development

• Importance of consistent adult guidance• Importance of consistent messages from

developmental influences• Service fragmentation hinders effectiveness

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removing barriers to learning & development• health• dental

• mental health• social services

This is at the core of their work in schools…Developmental Triangle

Children's Aid Society

Dimensions that we are developing…critical organisational capacities to develop in Maes Y Morfa…4 key elements to

consider…when planning for our school.

• Comprehensiveness…service and opportunity respond to identified needs…FLS

• Coherence…service integration…all are involved in meaningful permanent roles…teachers, parents, community, policy makers, funding streams.

• Coherence…coordinated and accountable activities that support the development of the child.( on going)

• Commitment…sustainable…shared vision building community will and capacity…strategic financing.

Maes Y Morfa serves the 10th most deprived ward in Wales.

• Facts: Communities first area and the ward is ranked 10th in the all-Wales Index of Deprivation. Currently 50 +% of our pupils are eligible for free school meals. (LEA 17% and Wales 18.8% January 2009) The pupils on entry to school are well below expected norms in speech and language, literacy and numerical skills. A significant percentage of our pupils have emotional literacy deficits. In January 2011, 65.3 % of our children had ALN needs.

• We have all the difficulties you would associate with a community that is disadvantaged…

IPLC…what could it do for us in Llanelli ?

• Maes Y Morfa Primary School…brand new…opened last year. The rainbow was free…

PS 5…what lies within?

On the door…in the lobby

Restorative Justice…

IPLC…New York…Enquiry driven…what could I use or develop in collaboration?

• Data informs the PLC…Family Learning Signature…community engagement…share

• Distributed Leadership…Community Directors that’s new…I want one of those…develop…already in progress.

• Focused on Learner Needs…same issues as us poor literacy/numeracy scores…tight measures of pupils performance…share through INCERTS

• Attention to pedagogy…what's new? share• Enquiry driven- outcomes lead to change in practice…is

what I am doing practical? collaborate

INCERTS…other metrics… spreadsheet…

The use of key contextual information as exemplified here will be adopted by our partner school…

Family Learning Signature…used in Maes Y Morfa…next step the Bronx?

Community Director…in place by March 2012…in Morfa…got the job spec ready to go…

The parent scorecard will be in place January 2012

Active ParticipationParent is consistently available to volunteer, attend workshops, check and sign homework, pick up student on time, logs

on to parent ARIS/ Acuity/ IXL, sends supplies to the classroom, supports student’s personal/social growth etc.Parent is usually available to volunteer, attend workshops, check and sign homework, pick up student on time, logs on to

parent ARIS/ Acuity/ IXL, send supplies to the classroom, supports student’s personal/social growth etc.Parent is sometimes available to volunteer, attend workshops, check and sign homework, pick up student on time, logs

on to parent ARIS/ Acuity/ IXL, send supplies to the classroom, supports student’s personal/social growth etc.Parent is rarely/ never available to volunteer, attend workshops, check and sign homework, pick up student on time, logs on to parent ARIS/ Acuity/ IXL, send supplies to the classroom, supports student’s personal/social growth etc.

UniformsStudent always wears his or her uniformStudent usually wears his or her uniformStudent rarely wears his or her uniformStudent never wears his or her uniform

Attendance and PunctualityStudent has no absences and/or lateness

Student has no more than 1 absence and/or latenessStudent has no more than 2 absences or lateness

Student has more than 3 absences and/or lateness without documentationCommunication

Parent consistently responds to communications from the teacher and follows up on behavior/ academic concerns. Emergency numbers are up to date.

Parent usually responds to communications from the teacher and follows up on behavior/ academic concerns. Emergency numbers are up to date.

Parent sometimes responds to communications from the teacher and follows up on behavior/ academic concerns. Emergency numbers are up to date.

Parent rarely/ never responds to communications from the teacher and follows up on behavior/ academic concerns. Emergency numbers do not work.

Teenage teachers…for literacy and numeracy…

A brilliant idea…

The next enquiry led research focus for Maes Y Morfa and P5 in Washington Heights…IPLC phase 2

The community schools Theory of Change model illustrates this complexity by identifying its various components, their relationships, and dynamic process, resulting in real change.

It’s a pathway of change diagram:

o your impact because of your work=outcomes.

o Pre conditions needed for change.

o Measures of success= Results.

My new IPLC partners, CAS and P5 will develop work on applying this model, adapting it and evaluating its success through…

This is our logo…the children like rainbows…so do children in the Bronx…a pupil PLC…sharing and collaborating…success for each student in each setting…New York so good they named it twice.