Leading Learning and Changing Practice with Building Schools for the Future

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Leading Learning and Changing Practice with
Building Schools for the Future
Ros Asher, Michael Buchanan Jill
Collison Partnerships for Schools (PfS) Howard
Kennedy Tim Tarrant Training and Development
Agency for Schools (TDA) BETT 2008
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Focus for the Session

• Introduction to opportunities for transformation
  with BSF
• Imperatives leverage with BSF
• New ways of working for 21st century learning
  services
• Building capacity for change
• Sharing some examples, case studies materials
• Opportunities for thinking, discussion
  questions

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BSF Transforming learning practice

• Catalyst for new thinking / practice
• Local vision strategy for change
• Join up major strategies
• Student Community focused
• Innovative learning environments
• Creative use of new technologies
• Outcomes improve learning lives
• Leading learning changing practice

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Capital Injection construction/ICT/resources 2.5
- 3 billion a yr x 15 yrs 10 of capital for ICT
The Childrens Plan Regeneration
Removing the gap achievement inclusion
Modes of learning curriculum, pedagogy,
leadership, collaboration, use of new
technologies, design and services.
Personalised learning, assessment achievement
Imperatives Levers for Change 21st Century
Learning
Student, staff, parent community leadership
benefits from transformation
New Learning together - LAs, schools, communities
and national agencies inform local and national
practice
Creating a climate repertoire for innovation
and transformation
Behavioural Organisational change new
pedagogies
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Why new thinking about learning teaching?

• We are caught up in a social and economic
  revolution. To survive it we need a new
  conception of human resources.
• Current approaches to education and training
  are hampered by ideas of intelligence and
  creativity that have wasted untold talent and
  ability.
• To develop these resources we need radically new
  strategies. We wont survive the future by simply
  doing better what we have done in the past.
  (Out of Our Minds Learning to be Creative Ken
  Robinson 2001)
• We are currently preparing students for jobs
  that dont yet exist using technologies that
  havent been invented in order to solve problems
  that we dont even know are problems yet (Shift
  Happens extract 2007)

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What new thinking about learning teaching?

• A group of mixed specialist tutors are available
  to help with the broad range of questions we have
  for our Project Based Problem. My research at
  the moment is related to Extinction due to
  Global Warming. Most of my time so far has been
  spent following the movements of polar bears. By
  logging into polarwatch.com I can see the
  movement of several bears over the last few
  years. It is really clear that their habitat is
  shrinking and their food sources are further away
  than they used to be. I was also able to contact
  a Canadian Inuit who described the life of his
  grandfather as a hunter on the ice. The projects
  we do, cover loads of subjects, like mine covers
  Geography Science Maths Morals Technology
  Communications wherever it takes me. I hope to
  get a good grade when I present it to the group
  and they peer-mark me. It will also be posted on
  the web for a global audience to make comments.
  (Day in the Life a Darwen Vale student)

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What if
schools were part of learning satellites or
hubs?
we designed spaces for learning competencies
as well as content?
we focused on developing an environment
learners would feel comfortable in?
...school was somewhere else?
we designed learning spaces to maximise
learner control of resources?
...we could be taught by remote experts?
...most learning was collaborative?
time and space boundaries were flexible?
...informal learning was valued as much as
formal learning?
What if? - Re-imagining Learning Spaces,
Futurelab
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and challenge schools
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Characteristics of ICT we should be attempting to
achieve for all ITT providers

• Laptop, memory sticks or their equivalent to
  transfer and use data between their school/s,
  home and training centre
• Digital capture and analysis, PDAs and
  videoconferencing
• Access to, and training in, the use of an IWB
• Virtual Learning Environment
• E-based support as an integral part of the
  providers training
• Professional level e-portfolio
• Opportunities to research innovative use of ICT

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Preparing initial teachers for future schools

• What has been achieved so far?
• Laptops - 20 to over 70 in 3 years
• 1,000 trainee teachers using PDAs
• Videoconferencing cutting edge
• E-safety new advice and guidance
• ASTs supporting ITT providers
• What more needs to happen?
• Disseminate good practice tell the stories of
  effective PDA use in primary and secondary
  classrooms
• Cultural change in ITT provision akin to that in
  schools

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From the industrial age to the knowledge age
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What is an extended school?
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A new way of working
Nursery
Childcare provision
Childrens centre
Parents
Health
Schools
Cluster school
Social care
Teachers
LAcoordinator e.g. ESRA
Support staff
Cluster school
Cluster manager
3rd sector
Leadership/ governors
Police
Pupils
Cluster school
Youth justice
Voluntary organs.
14 to 19 strategy
Faith organs.
Further education
Cluster partner
LA SIPs
Employers
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Intelligence, endurance, steadfastness and
morality lead practitioners to success
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Change triangle
A clear visualisation and articulation of the
desired outcomes for 21st century
learning FUTURE
Structural change School organisation Systems Pro
cesses Management structures Funding
Organisational culture Behaviours Values Working
practices Leadership Teamwork Confidence Expertise

NOW An honest and robust appraisal of the current
position strengths and weaknesses
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Areas for discussion

• How long term should our change management
  strategy be?
• How much of the change we anticipate is
  building-related?
• Which stakeholder groups require a strategy to
  enable them to embrace change and develop the
  skills and competences to do so?
• Who should be the leaders of change, and how can
  we build change leadership capacity?
• How can we resource the change management
  requirement? What existing resources (internal
  or external) do we need to align?
• What is the relationship between change
  management plans and KPIs and performance
  management arrangements?

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Useful Website Links

• PfS www.partnershipsforschools.org.uk
• TDA www.tda.gov.uk
• NCSL BSF Leadership Programme www.ncsl.gov.uk
• QCA www.qca.org.uk
• BECTA www.becta.org.uk
• SSAT www.specialistschools.org.uk
• Innovation Unit www.innovation-unit.co.uk
• Futurelab www.futurelab.org.uk
• Teachernet www.teachernet.gov.uk