RM March 07

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• 14 to 19
• Leadership, change and collaboration
• Dr John Dunford
• General Secretary
• Association of School and College Leaders

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14 to 19 leadership, change and collaboration

• The next generation of school leaders
• Sustainable leadership
• Schools in partnership
• Role map
• Partnership issues
• Mechanics and dynamics
• Lessons from 14 to 19 pathfinders
• Raising achievement
• Government policy changes
• It could all go horribly wrong

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The next generation of school leaders

• PricewaterhouseCoopers report
• Recruitment and retention
• Succession planning
• Positives and negatives of school leadership

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Sustainable leadership

• Focus on learning
• Partnership working
• Distributed leadership
• Building a local learning community

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Partnerships that work

• Excellence in Cities
• London Challenge
• Raising Achievement, Transforming Learning (RATL)
  
• Sports colleges
• 16 to 19 consortia
• Federations
• Networked Learning Communities

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Hard federations/ trusts, single governing body
14 to 19 consortia
Benchmarking groups
Soft federations, joint management structure
Vertical integrations, secondary, special, primary
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Horizontal and vertical

• Secondary schools collaborating
• Primary schools collaborating
• Primary, special and secondary partnerships

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• The partnership spectrum

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Developing Partnerships

• 14 to 19
• Behaviour
• Every Child Matters
• Extended schools
• Trusts

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School improvement partnership
14 to 19 consortium
Behaviour collaborative
Specialist group
Benchmarking group
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Partnership issues (1)

• Common goals
• Extent of collaboration
• Ethos
• Uniform
• Religious affiliation
• Teaching and learning styles
• Assessment
• Lunchtime
• Trust
• Commitment

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Partnership issues (2)

• Leadership and management
• Governance
• Timetable
• IT systems
• Funding
• Exam centres
• Quality assurance
• Accountability
• Developing a shared curriculum
• Communicating with parents and community

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Mechanics and dynamics

• Mechanics
• Meetings
• Audits
• Systems
• Dynamics
• Relationships
• Ideas
• Values

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Potential partnership problems

• Admissions
• Loss of autonomy
• Time
• School/college pay and conditions
• Staff fears
• Parent fears
• Student fears
• LA/LSC roles
• Costs

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Cost of partnership

• Excellence in Cities
• Leadership Incentive Grant
• Beacon schools
• Collaboration costs money
• Cost of not collaborating may be greater

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Lessons from 14 to 19 pathfinders

• Understand the interaction of national policy and
  local context
• Develop strategic vision and high level
  commitment
• Exercise strategic leadership to build consensus
• Establish a robust infrastructure based on a high
  level deputies group
• Model and estimate costs clearly
• Assess the effects of different institutional
  structures
• Work from fundamental curriculum principles
  rather than existing models in constructing
  student progression routes
• Use protocols to deal with areas of divergent
  practice
• Understand students learning aspirations and
  profiles
• Build shared staff development programmes
• Build in quality assurance
• Stick at it partnership takes time
• Celebrate success

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Raising achievement

• Collaboration raises achievement
• ASCL research project 2007
• Supported by RM and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

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Government policy changes needed

• Evidence based reform
• Promote more collaboration, less competition
• Funding
• Accountability
• Inspection
• LA/LSC roles

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It could all go horribly wrong

• A levels, GCSEs and diplomas
• Universities, especially Russell Group
• Independent school participation
• Clear link to work
• 2008 review promised

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