Policy

Leadership of Professional Development and Learning

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"Over the next five years implementing the curriculum, assessment and qualification reforms will present significant challenges to teaching and learning. Schools will need to:

  • develop teacher capability to deliver reformed GCSEs and A levels, including a focus on preparing pupils
  • for the new style of examinations
  • develop teachers’ ability to undertake assessment that evidences pupil progress in learning
  • build capacity in middle and senior leadership related to curriculum design and development"

 

So says the Guidance Paper recently published by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) - with CUREE and TDT – setting out why its members should be as aspirational about the development of their professional colleagues as they already are for their students

Local Leadership of Education and Training

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Getting with the Zeitgeist – devolution and the leadership of education

Four FE colleges in different parts of England explored strategies for leading the local education system in preparation for greater devolution to city regions following the model started in Greater Manchester. Through the lens of various leadership methodologies (but particularly Design Thinking) our college leaders worked with key stakeholders to flag the opportunities, the challenges and some ways forward 

 

A World Class Teaching Profession

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CUREE is pleased to present its response to this very important and timely consultation. Our responses draw on evidence from the numerous systematic reviews of the international evidence that we have been involved in including:

- a forthcoming, systematic umbrella review updating the CPD evidence commissioned by the Teacher Development Trust and carried out by CUREE with Durham university and the UCL Institute of Education, London

- Our systematic review of the evidence about practitioner use of research http://bit.ly/1Eq6kXb

- Evidence from the New Zealand Best Evidence Syntheses on CPD and on leadership http://bit.ly/1pHbtBL, http://bit.ly/1ECtF8m

- Evidence from our national evaluations of the quality of CPD provision and the former Post Graduate Development Programme

- Evidence from our extensive work with schools in evaluating how effectively they are connecting teacher and pupil learning

- Evidence from our study of Exceptional and Strong Schools for Teach First http://bit.ly/1hi4OLS

OECD CERI Conference on Innovation, Governance and Reform in Education

Philippa presented at OECD's CERI Conference on Innovation, Governance and Reform in Education earlier this month. You can find out more about the conference here: http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/ceri-conference-2014.htm

Philippa's presentations were part of the conference dedicated to Knowledge-intensive Governance, Innovation and Chance; looking at how knowledge in and about education is created, mediated and used, and the adequacy of such knowledge bases to fulfil the many demands being made of them. This part of the conference focused particularly on the demands for knowledge created, mediation and use that can feed into innovation and systems of decision-making and policy change. 

Philippa's first presentation titled 'How is knowledge in and about education effectively created, mediated and used? How effective are our systems for making use of it?' drew findings and conclusions from CUREE's extensive research into how knowledge is created and used. To recieve a copy of this presentation please email paige.johns@curee.co.uk