Bolton Association of Secondary

Head Teachers

Are We Brave Enough?

26th June 2014

How’s Your Reservoir

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How Will You Refill Your

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Cooperation and coordination a plenty

but was there ever any collaboration?

“We want to support school improvement and quality assurance across each other’s schools. We want to develop joint service provision and joint professional development. We are excited by the potential opportunities developing together the next generations of teachers and through research and development sharpen and enrich practice for all. We also want to look after each other!”

http://www.jarche.com/2010/03/pkm-a-node-in-the-learning-network/

What Does the Brave New World

Look Like?

What Would Help You Get

There?

Imagine There’s No Ofsted

It’s Easy If You Try

The Changing Face of Accountability

Accountability•What

•Who

•When

•How

Narrow Accountability

Tail Wagging the Dog“Keep Ofsted Happy”

Rich, Diverse Accountability

• Distinct and discrete personal or

institutional accountability aligned to

vision and values.

• Genuine accountability to students and

their parents.

• Peer accountability between schools

and their leaders within the locality.

Rich, Diverse Accountability

Carpe DiemI believe that up until now we have been dabbling in system leadership. It is now time for the profession to take charge as we move into the next phase … Educational leadership includes but should not be limited by locality or groups of schools. The next phase in system leadership is leadership of the education system itself.

Imagine All the Leaders,

Living Life in Peace

The Brave New World

How Will You Support Each Other?

Competition Drivers

Collaborations Drivers

Noise or Necessity• What is noise what is

necessary?

• What noise could you

ignore?

• What would is your

overriding priority for the

next twelve months?

Imagine All the Children,

Challenged & Fulfilled

Accountability Measures

Restrict or Define You?

General Pathway

Specialised Pathway

Vocational Option x 2

GCSE Choice

Impact on Progress 8

Year 8 Into 9 “Options”

30% of Curriculum Time

Year 9 also have 13.3% English, 13.3% Maths 13.3% Science, 10% MFL, 10% RE (& PSHE/PE)

Imagine All the Teachers,

Working Successfully

What Can You Do More Powerfully Together?

Building Professional Capital

From On Distributed Communications by Paul Baran, 1964

The Changing Face of Professional DevelopmentFrom Known Nodes to Wild Networks

Moving to Disciplined Innovation

• Create Opportunities for People to Grow

• Give Time, Allow Time

• Enhance Teachers’ Research Skills

• Increase “Stickability” in Knowledge Transfer

• Evaluate, Evaluate, Evaluate

Create Opportunities for People to Grow

• Go outside of the school’s structure– Build a little Babylon

• Innovation Fellows

• System Redesign TLRs (use TLR 3)

• R&D Communities

• Voluntary INSET #OutstandingIn10Plus10

• Leadership Development Programme– Getting Better Project

Give Time

• Innovation Fellows

– One day per week/fortnight additional non-contact time for two years

• R&D Community Leaders

– One period per fortnight additional non-contact time

– Cover Vouchers for staff in the community

• All staff

– Two hours weekly CPD/Meeting time

Allow Time

• Most innovations are abandoned before they ever reach maturity

• Too many innovations/changes at the same time lead to a lack of improvement

• People get on board at different stages

– Our nature, our interest?

Enhance Teachers’ Research Skills

• Soft skills needed for Hard Edged Outcomes

• Currently the Most Skilled Researchers aren’t in the class room

• Give Structure to the Process

• Connect with Universities

– Role of Teaching Schools

Evaluate, Evaluate, Evaluate

• The profession’s Achilles Heel

• To often “Good” or “Best” Practice is because I say it is

• Evaluation may take different forms

– Different types of evaluation: quantitative & qualitative are valuable and valid

– No evaluation is not a valid form of evaluation!

• Lesson Study provides as excellent model

Increase “Stickability” in Knowledge Transfer

• Knowledge Transfer Involves a “sender” and a “receiver”– No shortage of sending!

– Are people increasingly deaf to the node?

– More Babylon is Appearing

• From Sharing Good Practice to Joint Practice Development– NMP Joint Primary/Secondary Mathematics

Project

BEB CMAT• Executive Headteacher

– Chief Builder of Professional Capital

• Assistant Headteacher – Maths & Numeracy

– AHT Literacy & English to Follow

– Professional Development Department

• In-house CPD Programmes

– Leadership Programme

– #OutstandingIn10Plus10

– Maths KS 1-3 Group

Imagine There’s No Chaos,

Coherence is the Key

Clockwork & Ecosystems.

Complicated or Complex?

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Is Your School Like This? Should It Be?

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