Opening Pandora

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Opening Pandoras Box- Dream or Nightmare?

• A Case Study
• by Margaret Gwynne

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The Stage Setting

• My Story
• Montagu School
• The staff
• The SMT
• Starting points
• Co-incidence with other factors

3
The Backcloth

• Thinking outside the box
• Freeing teachers to teach
• Supporting and advising Heads
• Enhanced ICT
• Support Staff
• Capital build proposals

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My Script

• Make things better for Montagus students
• Liberate teachers to teach
• Work on the teaching and learning agenda
• Confront teacher shortage the future
• Changing the culture

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The Actors Take to the Stage

• School Change Team membership
• Research (Ours/Theirs)
• SCT Work Day
• Priorities
• School Change Plan submission

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Act One, Scene One

• The waiting game
• Appointing new staff
• Ordering the goodies
• Training teaching old dogs new tricks!
• In place for September
• The waiting game part 2

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Audience reaction, so far

• SCT
• Staff
• Governors
• Students
• LEA
• Unions

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The Critics First Thoughts

• Ups and Downs
• Paperwork Another tree bites the dust
• Time saving, stress relieving?
• Efficiency and Effectiveness
• Exciting leap into the future
• Learning positive lessons