School Improvement Partnership Programme

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School Improvement Partnership Programme
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Lasswade High SchoolNorth Berwick High
SchoolRoss High School

• East Lothian Council
• Midlothian Council

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CfE Personal Support in our Schools

• Role of Personal Support Entitlement in Raising
  Attainment and Closing the Gap
• Three Schools looking at how we support ALL
  learners to raise achievement attainment
• Individual Implementation Programmes shared
  across Working Groups
• Tutor Time, Personal Support Programmes, Pastoral
  Guidance
• Personal Learning Planning, Coaching Mentor
  Programmes, Learner Conversations
• Dwecks Growth Mindset Hatties Visible
  Learning
• Finance to Support Implementation (ICT tbc),
  Professional Development and INSET.

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Research

• Pupil Questionnaires
• Pupil Focus Groups (Space Unlimited)
• Staff Professional Opinion
• Working Group Meetings
• Professional Reading
• Sharing best-practice visits
• Headteacher SLT Meetings
• Use of Visible Learning
• Personal Support Programmes.

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Next Steps Where are we going?

• INSET Programme April 2015
• Sharing Best Practice from implementation
• Learner Conversations as focus
• Assessment Capable Leaners
• Passionate Inspired Teachers
• OSIRIS Visible Learning
• Gregor Townsend Growth Mindset in Sport
• Full Implementation Evaluation.

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School Improvement Partnership ProgrammeKnox
Academy Newbattle High School St
Davids High School

• Aim
• To bridge the gaps and address inequality by
  improving learners experiences across our three
  partnership schools

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Context

• The School Improvement Planning Partnership has
  offered an exciting opportunity to engage in
  professional sharing and dialogue within and
  across our three schools
• Through discussion, we identified learners
  experiences and professional engagement of staff
  as the core means of improving outcomes for all
  learners, thereby addressing inequality and
  closing the gap

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Our Shared Outcomes
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What have we done?

• Staff made clear that they would value the
  opportunity to visit other partner schools
• We used some of our budget to pay for cover to
  allow this to happen
• Three Sharing Good Practice visits took place
  in November and December 2014.

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We often dont get very much opportunity to
observe other lessons, so it was great to have
the time to do this, and probably more
importantly, to discuss the lessons we observed
with other teachers.
It was really good to meet teachers from
different schools and different subjects who had
many of the same interests.
I made several changes following the visit to St.
Davids and I found the visit really motivating.
There were many interesting and useful
discussions going on throughout the day, which
were both motivating and inspiring.
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Next Steps

• We have planned and organised a conference which
  will take place at Queen Margaret University on
  Monday 18 May
• This will further build on the theme of improving
  learners experiences in order to close the gap
  and will provide workshop opportunities for all
  teaching staff to share good practice and build
  networks within and across our three schools

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Discussion Question

• What strategies are there to ensure learners
  benefit as a result of staff professional
  learning?

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How could we use a visible learning approach to
close the gap in S1 History?
Classwork
Date________
Aims MUST raise attainment in key skills of
-writing essay paragraphs -judging
significance in History SHOULD close the gap
between pupils with different levels of poverty
HW Join our email list to share ideas Due on
Mon

• Activate knowledge
• List what you know about visible learning
• Share with your group...

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How could we use a visible learning approach to
close the gap in S1 History?
Classwork
Date________
Aims MUST raise attainment in key skills of
-writing essay paragraphs -judging
significance in History SHOULD close the gap
between pupils with different levels of poverty
HW Join our email list to share ideas Due on
Mon

• Activate knowledge
• List what you know about visible learning
• Share with your group...

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How could we use a visible learning approach to
close the gap in S1 History?
Classwork
Date________
Aims MUST raise attainment in key skills of
-writing essay paragraphs -judging
significance in History SHOULD close the gap
between pupils with different levels of poverty

• Visible learning??
• know thy impact
• Share it with students
• Use it to inform next steps

HW Join our email list to share ideas Due on
Mon
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Who how?
Classwork
Date________

• Subjects
• S1 class of mixed ability.
• Not analysed separately according to poverty
  levels- the school in general has a high level of
  poverty.
• taught x2 / week in lessons of 50 minutes.
• Measurement
• qualitative questions to judge students ability
  to reflect on their learning- repeated at the end
  of the unit
• baseline and a follow up test on the key skill of
  writing paragraphs
• Parents asked for their feedback at start and end