Towards a More Informed School Culture – Eyebrow!

SubtextThe Need to Go Beyond Informed

Being Informe

d as a Signpost Not a Destina

tion

Research

Experience

Data

Feedback

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Being Informe

d as a Signpost Not a Destina

tion

You Have Information but What Should You Do With It?

• Triangulate It?• Discuss It?• Explore It?• Change Practice

Immediately?• Bin It?

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It is what you do with the research, experience, data

and feedback that really matters.

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A High Quality Teaching Culture1. What’s going well and what not so? (Data & Feedback)2. Which of these “not so” areas am I interested in

improving? (Teacher Agency)3. What options should I consider? (Published Research)4. Which one might be the best bet? (Experience)5. Let’s see what happens in my class room (Teacher

Research)6. How do I know if it’s improving? (Data & Feedback).

Back to No 1

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The #5MinAchievementPlan by @LeadingLearner & @TeacherToolkit

Formative Lesson Observation (Quality of Teaching)

Leaders Create Cultures“Ways of Working & Being”• Develop Wide Perspectives• Differentiate Signposts & Destinations• Champions & Mass Participation• Give Time, Allow Time• Evaluate, Evaluate, Evaluate

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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

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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?

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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

– Quantitative & qualitative are both valuable and valid

– Discursive Evaluation– No evaluation is not a valid form of evaluation!

• Lesson Study provides an excellent model@LeadingLearner

Education’s Cluster F***

Are the Wrong Levers

Being Pulled toUnleash Greatness?

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Cluster Fuckklʌstə/fʌk

noun

1. A group of actions, events or outcomes occurring close together, in time or space, which create an absolute, complete and unholy mess of a situation. Normally left to someone else to sort out.

Definition

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Education’s Cluster F***• Incomplete & Confused Autonomy• Accountability Gone Mad

– Ofsted, Mocksteds, Limited Metrics– Performance Management & Related Pay– An Option for the Poor Which Lacks Coherence

• Demographic Time Bomb– Recruitment, Retention & Admissions

• Workload Challenges• Pointless Data Collection by Teachers & on Teachers• PD focussed on Competence & Coverage rather than

Excellence & Impact

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You’re Going to Have to Swim Against the Tide …

… but the Tide always TurnsPhoto Credit:

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