Leading a collaborative

culture:

how to embed peer review

at all levels for real impact

With Maggie Farrar,

Andrew Ettinger and Simon Spry

Collaboration and the self-improving system

Professor David Hargreaves, Leading a Self Improving System, Sept 2011

Improve don’t prove

Stay curious and

open to enquiry

Stay open to learning

Trust the evidence

Strengthen agency

Practice reciprocity

The culture of peer review – our core principles

Behaviours change before beliefs

Michael Fullan

Culture is… the mythic and the mundane

Gayle Karen Young

Culture eats strategy for breakfast

Just about everyone

“The ways we do things round here”

McKinsey and Co

How do we change culture?

Accountability

Funding

Us

Three key obstacles

to embedding strong

collaboration:

Richard Sherriff, ASCL President, ASCL conference 2019

“Greater collaboration is key to progress… weak

collaboration is a distraction, we need strong

collaboration underpinned by values.”

So, what’s stopping us?

Simon Spry - CEO

‘Believe you can. Together we will.’

OFFICE

IMPROVE

(CARPETS!)

Modelling and practising questioning

Organisations and societies will bend

themselves in the direction of the questions

we persistently and consistently ask questions

about.

Gervase Bush - Appreciative Enquiry

Modelling and practising questioning

Where next?

• What would a school system with collaboration

hard-wired into its culture look like?

• How would we get there from here?

• What are the enabling conditions we need to

foster?

• Can you help?

More than 1,300 schools and larger local systems have engaged with

our sector-led, cluster-based approach to school improvement.

Our visionTo build a sustainable, self-improving, school-led

system where schools are jointly responsible for the

improvement of themselves and others.

Find us online at eddevtrustspp.com

Twitter: @EdDevTrust_SPP