Welsh Government

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Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader
THE STRATEGIC LEADER
Leading Learning Bethan Guilfoyle
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STRATEGIC?
Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader

• 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
Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader
Treorchy Comprehensive School, Rhondda Mission
Statement A community school committed to
excellence
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Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader
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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Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader
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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September 2003Consistency

• Expectations/Standards
• Rigour
• Differentiation
• Opportunities
• Support
• Teamwork

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September 2003Leadership

• Intervene early and often
• Use of data
• Capacity building/distributed leadership
• Conviction
• Communication
• Partnerships

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Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
June
2013

• Day 2 Strategic Leader
• 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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Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
June
2013

• Day 2 Strategic Leader
• 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
Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader

• The System
• Welsh Government
• Local Authorities/Consortia
• Schools

• Context
• Ministers three priorities-
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Breaking the link between
• underachievement and
• deprivation

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PRESENT POSITION IN WALES
Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader

• 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
Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader

• 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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Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
June
2013
Day 2 Strategic Leader
KEY FACTS

• Local 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.

• What questions does this raise?

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Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader
KEY FACTS
The performance of individual Consortia? Early
days. Current trend based on 2010 2012 outcomes
indicate-

• 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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Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader
A CULTURE FOR RAISING STANDARDS

• 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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Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader
The way forward?
Culture not only Structure
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Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader

• 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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Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader

• Changing the structure takes time
• Changing the culture takes longer

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Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader

• The quality of an education system cannot exceed
  the quality of its teachers
• (Sir Michael Barber)

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Welsh Government Wales Public Service Summer
School Becoming an outstanding leader
2013
June
Day 2 Strategic Leader
Thank you for your time Diolch am eich
amser Any Questions?