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Leading LearningBethan Guilfoyle
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THE STRATEGIC LEADER
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STRATEGIC?• CLEAR sense of purpose
• WHAT needs to be done?
• HOW will it be done?
• HOW will progress be checked?
Communicate the strategy clearly with expected outcomes – implement with a relentless focus on detail.
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SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
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Treorchy Comprehensive School, Rhondda
Mission Statement:
“A community school committed to excellence”
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COMMUNITY ?
• Moral purpose• Every child matters and all succeed• Champion of the most vulnerable• Open to criticism• Instilling trust and confidence• High expectations regardless of deprivation factor
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EXCELLENCE ?
• Relentless focus on learning and teaching for all• Everyone a leader• Capacity building• Resilience• Consistency• Short term/long term
“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of focused attention, sincere effort, intelligent and skilful execution. It represents
wise choices among many alternatives.”
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September 2000
Classroom Management
Basics – expectations of pupils’ behaviour Focus – is always on pupils’ learning
Biggest challenge of all is CONSISTENCY of expectations in these two areas as pupils move
from lesson to lesson
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Consistency• Expectations/Standards
• Rigour
• Differentiation
• Opportunities
• Support
• Teamwork
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Leadership
• Intervene early and often
• Use of data
• Capacity building/distributed leadership
• Conviction
• Communication
• Partnerships
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International Leaders Dialogue, Ontario September 2006
THE LITERACY AND NUMERACY SECRETARIAT
Avis Glaze – Chief Student Achievement Officer and CEO
Literacy and Numeracy:• The most important outcome of schooling• The foundation for learning, success in school, a better livelihood, later
educational and social choices• Makes possible full participation in society• Students must function in an information-rich society requiring advanced levels of
literacy• A primary means of empowerment
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School Boards, District Boards and Government working together fostering purposeful interaction between and among individuals within the system
and ‘getting the basics right’
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TRI LEVEL REFORM - 2013
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The System
• Welsh Government
• Local Authorities/Consortia
• Schools
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Context
• Minister’s three priorities:-
Literacy Numeracy Breaking the link between underachievement and deprivation
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PRESENT POSITION IN WALES• Standards overall and outcomes for learners have consistently improved during the last three years
• Key Stage 2 L4+ in English/Welsh and Maths
• Key Stage 3 L5+ in English/Welsh and Maths
• Key Stage 4 L2 including English/Welsh and Maths
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HOWEVER SOME KEY POINTS TO CONSIDER…The gap between performance in: -
• L4+ English and L4+ Reading, Writing and Maths L5+ English and L5+ Reading, Writing and Maths
is not closing and has widened from 2008 – 2012 and remained static from 2011 – 2012. • Predictably the gap between L2 and L2 inclusive is widening and is now almost 20%• Similar schools within some local authorities and certainly across Wales perform considerably better than others against the above indicators.
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KEY FACTSLocal Authorities• LA Benchmarking Information 2011/2012 indicates a wide variety of quartile performance between the Key Stages although at Key Stage 4 there are consistently high performing authorities against the main criteria L1, L2, L2 inclusive and CSI.
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• What questions does this raise?
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KEY FACTSThe performance of individual Consortia? – Early days.Current trend based on 2010 – 2012 outcomes indicate:-
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• Key Stage 2 – the most challenged consortium has made the highest rate of progress in the CSI and in the L4+ R/W/M although there are significant differences between these two indicators.
• Key Stage 4 – the L2 inclusive showed little progress across Wales but the most challenged consortium made the largest gain from the lowest baseline
• Band 4 and Band 5 schools have made the greatest gains in L2 inclusive in 2012.
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• High levels of individual and collective accountability
• High expectations of individuals and institutions
• Capacity building for sustainability and resilience.
• Leadership for all seasons.
ALL focused on the quality of learning and teaching.
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A CULTURE FOR RAISING STANDARDS
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The way forward?
Culture not only Structure
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“Many things can wait. Children cannot.
Today, their bones are being formed …….their senses are being developed
.To them, we cannot say ‘tomorrow’.
Their name is today”.
Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Leader
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Changing the structure takes time
Changing the culture takes longer
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“The quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its
teachers”
(Sir Michael Barber)
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Thank you for your time
Diolch am eich amser
Any Questions?
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