Leadership

Practitioner Use of Research Review - Full Technical Report

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REPORT OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTITIONER USE OF RESEARCH REVIEW: Practitioner engagement in and/or with research

This is a technical report of a systematic research review that focuses on how practitioners engage in and/or with research to inform and develop their practice. The overall question for the review is: What are the links between practitioner engagement in and/or with research and learner (student/patient/client) outcomes? Given the broad nature of this question, the review group developed a number of sub questions to help scaffold the analysis of the studies included in the review. The answers to our sub questions have in turn helped us to flesh out and illustrate the answers to our overall review question. Our sub questions are:

1. What are the obstacles to practitioner engagement in and/or with research?

2. What forms of support are required to help practitioners overcome such obstacles?

3. What is the range of approaches to practitioner engagement with research findings?

4. What is the range of approaches to practitioner engagement in research?

CUREE Newsletter July 2012

Philippa’s Summer Blog

AlpsI simply can’t remember a summer as wet as this. Looking on the bright side perhaps it means students with hay fever had an easier exam time? It also makes weeding easier as I discovered last weekend after 6 weekends “on the road “ – a mix of work and festivities. But that’s it for the up side - so I am sharing a photo from a very sunny weekend in the Italian Alps to remind you what the sun looks like. Last time I was there in June it was snowing!

Summer CPD – a case study

Leadership for Closing the Gap

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Responding to the national emphasis placed on improving outcomes for disadvantaged learners and  reflecting the priorities of many school leaders, the National College (then NCSL) launched in 2008/09 an initiative on leadership for closing the gap. The original aims of the initiative were to:

improve participants’ leadership for closing the gap by increasing their capacity to act and their confidence and deepening their understanding of successful practice; demonstrate effective approaches to improving leadership for closing the gap; and share the outcomes with a wider audience.

The Quality of CPD Provision in England - Report for Providers

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This report provides a large snapshot of the range of CPD provision in England, where it stands in relation to the evidence base on effective CPD, and how much it costs. It is based on an evaluation commissioned by TDA of 75 providers including universities, awarding bodies, subject and other specialist associations, large and small private training organisations, local authorities and schools. It was carried out in 2010 -11. Its contents will help providers reflect on theircurrent provision, and consider the next steps in developing their offer

CUREE Newsletter February 2012

Philippa’s Blog

SnowdropsThe longer days and snowdrops are telling me that we are on our way out of winter’s gloom –even if the colder weather feels more wintry.

I started the year alongside teachers and researchers from 50 countries across the world at the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) annual conference in Malmo. It was amazing to meet senior colleagues from schools in Northumberland and Bristol alongside researchers and school leaders from Chile and Malaysia! It was also exciting to learn that people from 5 different countries were so excited by my presentation about research route maps (www.curee.co.uk/products-and-services-overview/research-sat-nav) that they decided there and then to start to import them! I kept coming across people poring  over them in coffee breaks and asking different questions about visuals, translation etc.