The SchoolLed System Roger Pope CBE Chair of

The School-Led System Roger Pope CBE, Chair of NCTL Investing in your workforce, 2017 School Led Conference – 27 June 2017

The school-led system School improvement Chartered College of Teaching Schools Council Teaching School Alliances CPD & Leadership ITT NCTL RSCs

Good School improvement Grow the top NLEs TSAs SLEs & NLGs Commission Not yet good enough Sub-regional improvement boards (e. g. RSC, LAs, MATs, Schools)

A career path for teachers ITT CPD NPQs Headship & beyond…

“I want CPD to run like a golden thread throughout teachers’ careers, with high-quality, evidence-based development available for all teachers, particularly in our most challenging schools. ” Justine Greening, 16 February 2017

1, 263 NLEs 453 NLGs 7, 760 SLEs 750 teaching schools & 588 teaching school alliances Sep 2016: over 50% of ITT recruits on schoolled routes 39, 917 NPQ registrations

Tudor Grange SCITT, West Midlands

The Cambridge Teaching Schools Network (CTSN) is a network of 5 teaching schools, forming 3 teaching school alliances. They run a SCITT with 2 further TSAs to operate at scale. After 5 years, they’ve grown from around 20 trainees to approximately 80 for 2017/18. Strong partnership with Anglia Ruskin University offering access to Masters credits to all trainees. Information provided by CTSN

A story of school-to-school support The Oxford Academy • Dec 2014 Ofsted rating ‘requires improvement’ • Only around 1/3 of students achieving 5+ A*-C grades including English and maths • School governance flagged as a main area for improvement RSC brokers support • In 2015, the RSC worked with the academy and the Diocese of Oxford, leading to Southfields Teaching School being awarded £ 15 k school-to-school support funding to work with the academy • This funding provided extra capacity for governance and subject support in maths, science, English, literacy and numeracy Information provided by Southfields Teaching School Alliance

A story of school-to-school support The Oxford Academy • 2015 and 2016 GCSE results improved so that approx. half of students achieved 5 A*-C including English & maths • Significant increase in number of students progressing to university March 2015 Ofsted section 8 monitoring report: “There has been no let-up in the pace of change seen at the inspection. Appropriate actions have already been taken to address the key priorities … The support provided by an experienced headteacher and national leader in education has been invaluable in improving governance and providing support to you. ” Nov 2016: Ofsted judged the school to be Good, with ‘effectiveness of leadership and management’ rated as Outstanding. Information provided by Southfields Teaching School Alliance

Leadership training and CPD • Wandle Teaching School Alliance in Wandsworth – a collaborative learning partnership of 37 educational institutions • Through Joint Practice Development Groups, their staff learn together to improve outcomes for young people • They deliver NPQs in partnership with UCL’s Institute of Education, and run over 25 CPD courses across a range of topics Information provided by Wandle Teaching School Alliance

Singapore maths CPD • Chorlton Park in Manchester is a lead primary school for a maths hub in the north west, which is led by Altringham Grammar School for Girls • 3 main learning points • Subject knowledge • Focused questions • Same-day intervention “Pinpointing questions to develop further learning … tackling misconceptions and adapting teaching that same day … asking difficult questions to help a child move on with their mathematical knowledge. ” Information provided by Chorlton Park Primary School

The school-led system is growing…

Growing leadership National professional qualifications (NPQs) Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund (TLIF) Leadership coaching pledge Designated system leader programmes (eg teaching schools) Df. E leadership capacity building programmes Equality and Diversity Fund High Potential Senior Leaders programme (HPSL) High Potential Middle Leaders programme (HPML)

New NPQs National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership (NPQML) – for aspirant and serving middle leaders National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL) – for aspirant and serving senior leaders ‘Leading a team’ ‘Leading across a school’ National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) – for aspirant and serving headteachers National Professional Qualification for Executive Leadership (NPQEL) – for aspirant and serving executive heads and CEOs ‘Leading a school’ ‘Leading across several schools’

New NPQs 6 content areas – what a leader should know and be able to do Strategy & improvement Teaching & curriculum excellence Leading with impact Working in partnership Managing resources & risks 7 leadership behaviours – how the best leaders operate commitment resilience collaboration awareness personal drive integrity respect Increasing capability

System leadership • We will continue to designate more system leaders in areas where they are most needed • We’ve changed the criteria so that ‘Good’ schools can apply • We’ve just concluded a recent application round for NLEs and teaching schools • Teaching schools have recruited over 7, 700 SLEs

Strategic School Improvement Fund £ 140 m to support those schools most in need and ensure more children are in good schools • Prevention and intervention • Strategic proposals supporting multiple schools In addition to this funding, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) is committed to spending up to £ 20 m over 2 years to scale up and disseminate evidencebased approaches

Additional school improvement funding • £ 50 m for LAs to monitor & commission school improvement • £ 72 m to pilot a series of opportunity areas • £ 41 m maths mastery programme • £ 13 m regional academy growth fund (RSCs)

Teacher Subject Specialism Training (TSST) – Purpose of TSST is to improve the subject knowledge of non-specialists and returning teachers – School-led training provided free of charge to participants – Launched for maths and physics in 2015/16 – Expanded to include secondary modern foreign languages in 2016/17 – Being delivered by 116 lead schools nationwide in 2016/17 – 2017/18 TSST application round closed 26 April 2017. Schools have recently been informed of the outcome of their application and successful schools attending startup meetings this week

Other NCTL programmes • Leadership Equality and Diversity Fund – support for under-represented groups – 58 projects approved for funding in 2016/17 • Women Leading in Education – leadership coaching pledge and 9 new school-led regional networks • Maths hubs – 30 out of 35 Maths hubs are teaching schools – now in their third year and already leading transformational change in maths education

Leading my school … …Leading our schools

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