School Improvement Partnership Programme

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School Improvement Partnership Programme Fife
City of Glasgow
School Improvement Engaging with the influences
of Learning
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School Improvement Partnership Programme Fife
City of Glasgow

• Using the concept of thinking big but starting
  small the aim for each LIG is to
• Raise attainment by ensuring a child centred
  approach
• The targeted strategy change by September 2014
  will be identified by each school within the LIGs
  will involve a small group of children.

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School Improvement Partnership Programme Fife
City of Glasgow

• Fife Story
• Formation of Two LIGs 32 schools nursery,
  primary secondary
• Selected 4 clusters from areas of high levels of
  deprivation SIMD 1 3 closing the gap
• Learners resilience, ambition aspiration
• Attainment/achievement the focus on various key
  strategies has not resulted in the step change we
  require to close the gap
• The need to think differently do something
  different to make a difference
• Two LIGs linking with our achieving pathfinder
  project schools partnership of support
  challenge
• Links with Glasgow as our critical friend
  sharing good practice to influence change

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School Improvement Partnership Programme Fife
City of Glasgow

• Fife Year of Learning
• Building relationships trust between clusters
  schools forming the LIG vision, values aims -
  focus on outcomes
• Participation in leadership retreats linked to
  Drummond International PLCs and professional
  enquiry
• QI learning rounds VSE between schools focused
  on what they needed to improve pace, challenge
  differentiation
• Inspire to aspire Alistair Smith High
  performing schools
• Expert leaders, learners teachers
• Invest in social capital encourage
  
  curiosity
• Unleash creativity
• Develop an enduring mindset
• Build your brand, maintain a
  positive culture

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School Improvement Partnership Programme Fife
City of Glasgow

• Fife Year of Learning
• Leadership visits to schools in Glasgow
  Edinburgh linking schools across authorities
• Professional reading within the LIGs Social
  capital, mind sets.
• Training involving pathfinder LIG schools
  June September collaborative test of change
  model to support the LIG on focusing on their
  key question for improvement child centred
• Planning continued involvement in school
  improvement of Alistair Smith working with
  headteachers and in the classroom
• Reciprocal visits with GCC focusing on the
  critical friend approach/sharing practice
• Schools in Fife participating in GCC QI rounds
• Building headteachers capacity for improvement
  3 step change model
• Ensuring self-evaluation leads to self awareness
  self improvement

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School Improvement Partnership Programme Fife
City of Glasgow

• Focused Area of Improvement
• Step model for high performing schools
  programme with Alistair Smith
• Think big but start small and measure the process
  of improvement allowing for the how and why
  process to be recorded shared
• Continued emphasis on professional learning
  through enquiry supporting teacher development
• Differentiated support from pathfinders, schools
  officers
• Self-evaluation, self management, self awareness
  leading to self improvement
• LIGs will determine their focus for improvement

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School Improvement Partnership Programme Fife
of Glasgow City

• Impact to date
• Schools have been inspired to re-focus on their
  core purpose of planning, delivering, evaluating
  and improving high quality learning experiences
  engaging with the influences on learning
• Creativity is emerging from exploration
• Changing the conversation satisfactory schools
  talk about coping, good schools talk about LT,
  great schools talk about learning and world class
  schools talk about re-inventing from shared
  observations asking all key players we are seeing
  shoots of the conversation changing
• All LIG schools involved in professional enquiry
  with partner heads leading to improvements in
  leadership
• Raising the bar with collaboration to our
  pathfinder schools

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School Improvement Partnership Programme Fife
of Glasgow City

• Measuring our progress
• Following training in June and September for all
  LIG schools using the 3 step model aim big
  start small. Each school will determine their key
  area for improvement through a child centred
  approach
• The focus can be on a small focused number
  (3,8,10) then spreading out to others
• Involvement of Glasgow University to support the
  measurement of the improvements to include the
  how why
• Support challenge with pathfinder schools who
  have the 4 influences of learning