Collaborative learning

Leadership Learning of Executive Heads through Continuing Professional Development and Learning (CPDL)

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Presentation at the ASCL National Conference, Birmingham  March 2020

Bringing together the experience of a multi-academy trust (The Futures Trust), a study of 13 smaller MATs and the evidence from a new analysis of research about the leadership of CPDL 

The presentation draws on:

  • The experience of a MAT leader and his senior colleagues 
  • an analysis of the leadership of learning 13 smaller MATs and similar groupings (sponsored by the ASCL-led NPQEL delivery partnership) examining how those 
  • the latest report from CUREE mapping the research evidence around the leadership of continuing professional development and learning 

 

Research and Evidence Based Capacity Building in Disadvantaged Communities

Research and Evidence Based Capacity Building in Disadvantaged Communities:

Lessons from research and from R&D in Blackpool and North Wales

Presentation by Philippa Cordingley to the 2017 National ResearchEd event at Chobham Academy Stratford

The session explored the key building blocks for building momentum in school improvement through the lens of a year of research and evidence based development work in Blackpool secondary schools and across schools in North Wales drawing on interim impact reports. It focussed on issues such as understanding both capacity and barriers in depth, phasing, co-construction, scaffolding and harnessing the contributions of various stakeholders

 

If you want access to the presentation please email paige.johns@curee.co.uk

Encouraging discerning research involvement by schools

Whilst making explicit the challenges faced by schools through the questions, this paper also recognises the challenges faced by researchers. In this context the paper’s first goal is to increase the likelihood of schools participating in research on a sustained basis by helping them raise their expectations of what is possible. We also seek to help them understand what is involved so that they can plan for effective participation.

Using a supportive mentoring to aid important action research

Aim: The primary aim of this project was to provide a supportive, pro-active and practical mentoring partnership in which individual teachers could conduct their independent action research. The results were actually far more significant than the original aim suggested and extended beyond the boundaries of the action research itself. Research mentoring led to tangible and long-term benefits both for our personal development and our professional development as teachers.

Re-designing the curriculum to develop childrens creativity

Aim: We wanted to know if there are generic competencies that learners need to be creative, what those learning attributes are, and whether being creative develops childrens life-long learning skills. This was so that we could focus on teaching those key life-long learning skills and change / simplify our school curriculum, adapt teaching & learning to enhance childrens creative opportunities and ignite a broader professional debate about future curriculum content.