journeys to outstanding opening session march 6th
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This session began with an input from Baroness Estelle Morris who presented a recipe for schools to achieve long term success. She reflected on how success can be realised through focusing on learning, meeting the needs of students and making the most of teachers through informed professionalism, engaging with pedagogy and effective collaboration. The session progressed to interviews, firstly with Primary School Head Carl Jarvis who took his school from Special Measures to Outstanding in two years with the same staff and the same students through a radical approach to learning that really engaged his students. We explored with Carl what gave him the courage and determination to embark on this extraordinary journey. The second interview took place with Deputy Head Chris Holmwood - who leads his teaching school alliance - and two of his students. In this case study the school was already Outstanding but had a grade 2 for teaching and learning. Instead of just chasing the Ofsted criteria they decided to “lift the lid” and do something quite different. Again the interview explored what they did, why they did it and what made it successful in both conventional and other ways. In the final part of the interview we explored and reflected on the lessons learnt from from their experiences, and how we can each have the confidence to pursue a similar approach, leading to long term sustainable success. Wendy Berliner of the Guardian also joined us and reflected on what she has heard.TRANSCRIPT
London
Regional
Conference
Journeys to
Outstanding
1 Drummond Gate
6th March 2013
School led system leadership”
WELCOME John Dunford Chair of Whole Education
School led system leadership”
JOURNEYS TO OUTSTANDING Introduction David Crossley Whole Education
The Opportunity
To seize the agenda, ensure and enable a greater degree of informed professionalism to drive the next stage in school
improvement
The Challenge
A transformation of schooling that is self-generating and sustainable requires that attention be paid to the deep cultural capital that underpins the life of individual schools, of partnerships and alliances, and of the school system as a whole. David Hargreaves 2012
What can we learn to guide us?
School led system leadership”
OPENING ADDRESS Estelle Morris
School led system leadership”
Journeys To Outstanding Carl Jarvis Hartsholme Primary Academy, Lincoln; Chris Holmwood Shenley Brook End School, Milton Keynes.
Hartsholme Academy The Short Story
Carl Jarvis @carljarvis_eos
One of the Worst Performing
Schools in the Country
Special Measures
Twice
High Levels of
Deprivation
It's Time To
Close
A True Sink
School Only
2009
Like most things designed by the
Victorians, it was a robust system.
It worked. Schools, in a sense,
manufactured generations of
workers for an industrial age.
But first, a bit of history: to keep the
world's military-industrial machine
running at the zenith of the British
Empire, Victorians assembled an
education system to mass-produce
workers with identical skills.
Curriculum
Long Term
Planning
Medium
Term
Planning
Short Term
Planning
Delivery
To The
Children
Understand
How The
Children
Tick
Design The
Pedagogy
For The
Children's
preferred
Learning Design The
Environments
And
Learning
Opportunities
Design The
Project
Content
And
Project
Tune
Delivery
To The
Children
Reverse
Learning
Flipped Learning
Challenge Based Learning
Learning Journey
Immersive Learning
Reverse Learning
Mobile Technology
One of the Best
Performing Schools
in the Country
Researching
Pedagogy
Outstanding Within
2 Years
Working With
World Wide
Partners
Teaching
School
2012
School led system leadership”
Reflections Carl Jarvis and Jon Chapman
Leadership and Training Centre Shenley Brook End School www.ltc.sbeschool.org.uk
@LTCSBE
Autocratic Democratic Done to people Done by people Compliance Commitment Teaching Learning Direction Reflection Feedback Dialogue Line management Leadership coaching Creates Develops dependency capacity
Senior Leadership
School led system leadership”
Reflections Chris Holmwood and Post 16 Student Joe Thompson
School led system leadership”
Wider Issues and lessons for all schools