Family Learning It won

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Family Learning Big Picture of the Big
Impact Oslo September 2005 Juliette Collier Head
of Family Learning jcollier_at_cflearning.org.uk
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Family LearningThe Rocket Fuel Effect

• Holistic approach promotes positive cultural
  shifts
• Environmental change to break through
  institutional improvement ceiling - Children
  spend only 15 of waking time at school
• Non-threatening opportunities for adults to
  develop confidence, support their children and
  become inspired to learn themselves

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Family Learning
Family Learning is like water Turn on the tap!
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Promoting Parental Involvement
High levels of parental expectation, consistent
encouragement and actions to enhance learning
opportunities in the home were all positively
associated with students high aspirations and
college enrolments this regardless of students
SES or ethnic background. Catsambis 2001
Detailed information- DfES documents Ref
PICE/IPRA and Ref LEA/0339/2003
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Developing a Passion for LearningReaching
Hearts and Minds
Why would you revisit an experience that was, at
best irrelevant, at worst humiliating ?
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National Family Learning Network

• Partnership venture between Campaign for
  Learning, ContinYou, NIACE
• Set up in 2001
• Free support and information for Family Learning
  Practitioners
• Government funding from national LSC since 2003

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• 3 National Conferences
• Free membership 5,600 existing members
• Central resource for Family Learning launched 1st
  April 2004 on www.familylearningnetwork.com
• Ask Us facility

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Building Partnerships NIACE MLA BBC
ContinYou PESF NLT BSA Fathers Direct Welsh
Family Learning Strategic Alliance OLSU LSC .
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Family Learning Week8th -16th October 2005

• Campaign for Learning
• over 7,800 events last year
• Support Services include
• Planning Conferences
• Funding Directory
• Specialist Guides
• Branded Resources

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Family Learning Week

• Raising Awareness
• Fantastic opportunity to promote Family Learning
• National and Regional PR
• New audiences
• New funding opportunities
• Strength in numbers!

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• Extending the piloted local infrastructures
• Developing and testing a range of delivery models
• Developing or adapting additional programme and
  promotion materials
• Disseminating effective practice

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LibrariesThe Quiet Revolution
New Resources New Opportunities New Focus New
Audiences Change Perceptions?
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Better outcomes for children are virtually
impossible without a family approach Naomi
Eisenstadt Director Sure Start Unit
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Extended Schools
An extended school is one that provides a range
of services and activities often beyond the
school day to help meet the needs of its pupils,
their families and the wider community 2003-2006
to create up to 240 full service extended schools
and to support the development of extended
services in other schools.
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Learning to Learn
3 Year Action Research Project Campaign for
Learning and Newcastle University Parental
Involvement has had huge measurable impact
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Offenders
July 2004 OLSU Mapping Family Learning
Provision January 2005 Pathfinder Project March
2005 Guidance for HOLS
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ReachingNew Audiences

• Breaking intergenerational cycles
• Providing strong motivational messages
• Offering learner centred, non-threatening,
  non-judgemental learning opportunities
• Developing sustainable partnerships to offer
  progression