Lincolnshire Schools Heads' Peer Review, Final Report

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CUREE has been delighted to be involved in this Peer Review programme with Lincolnshire Schools and this final report presents the very interesting patterns which have emerged from the Peer Review process, our findings and recommendations. 

The training for 46 Heads from across Lincolnshire, which began in September 2015, was facilitated by an experienced team throughout and included a series of workshops for the Heads who were arranged into three cohorts, firstly to ensure a high level of engagement with facilitators and secondly to ensure that the workshops were geographically accessible to all. 

Put the New Standard For Teachers' Professional Development to use with CUREE CPD

To support the recently published New Standard for Teachers' Professional Development, CUREE are proud to announce a series of professional development opportunities deeply rooted in leading evidence and CUREE’s extensive expertise.

Following on from launch event workshops in the West Midlands and London with members of the expert panel that helped design the New Standard, these exciting programmes will help colleagues make effective use of the New Standard and further promote its contributions to school improvement.

Increase the Impact of Your CPD on Staff and Pupil Learning

LAST CHANCE! New Leadership Development Programmes in the West Midlands

Help Design New Leadership Development Programmes in the Region

Whats the problem?

In 2010 there were a total of 450 Executive Heads in England. We don’t have accurate figures for the number now but we know there are at least 66 leaders with that or a similar title in our region alone. Alongside this we see a dramatic increase in the numbers of deputy heads being catapulted into headship positions with little notice or preparation. Again, numbers are uncertain but we know of at least 40 in just two of the region’s LA areas. 

The New CPD Standard – What does it really mean for practice?

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On the 3rd of October, 2016, CUREE helped to host a seminar with the members of the Expert Panel who authored the new standard for teachers’ professional development (published July 2016) to explore how to put them to work for school improvement. This important seminar marked the start of an ongoing campaign to ensure the standards are widely understood, used and exemplified and to help to build a shared understanding of what quality in implementation looks like. 

Hosted at the prestigious RSA headquarters the seminar focusd on:

Forging strong links with Continuing Professional Development and Learning (CPDL) as part of school improvement - the standard positions CPDL as a key driver of school improvement. This matters for every leader of school improvement and especially for the Teaching Schools Council and their Regional leads and those who have budgets and a new and stronger remit for school improvement. The seminar explored the links between the CPDL and this all important work

Pockets of Excellence – Beacon or Blindspot?

To accompany the release of the New Standard for CPD, Philippa Cordingley has produced a special blog which can be found below. Read the the New Standard at www.gov.uk/government/publications/standard-for-teachers-professional-development 

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It’s a no brainer isn’t it? A pocket of excellence is A GOOD THING! So we celebrate it and shout about it - especially if we are in a school which needs to pick up momentum in accelerating pupils’ progress. Everyone needs a boost, and catching people being great does that. Next thing to do is grow it and use it to lever up practice. Oh and another good thing to do is make good use of the team behind it.

How does the FE and Skills Sector become Self-Improving?

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What if the Further Education and Skills Sector Became a Genuinely Self-improving System with the Trust and Capacity to Determine its Own Future?

Philippa Cordingley and Paul Crisp's essay with this title has been published as part of a collection, funded by the Further Education Trust for Leadership (FETL), edited by RSA. The full publication is available here. The essay poses three questions and offers some suggested responses. There no recommendations in the essay itself but three are put forward elsewhere in the publication

The Further Education and Skills sector needs a plan of action to improve sectoral self-concept from the current position they characterise as an counterproductive combination of victimhood and sales-driven public engagement by providers.

Three areas need change:

CPDL that works for pupils as well as teachers

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On the 21st June Philippa Cordingley presented at the Developing Great Teachers Conference in Cardiff, drawing on CUREE's extensive work with mentoring and coaching and the international evidence behind effective CPDL in 'CPDL that works for pupils as well as teachers; evidence based tools for embedding high-quality coaching'

Find out more about Effective Mentoring and Coaching here, or by getting in touch at gillian.sheail@curee.co.uk