An initial Philosophy:
• Educational excellence and the development of the child will be at the heart of the work of the alliance.
• Collaboration and relationship building within the Alliance will flourish because of mutual trust and respect.
• We aim to develop a networked learning community, developing the quality of teaching and learning through bespoke training and mutual support
Benefits and challenges
• No two models the same• Helping us to be outward facing• Learning new skills• Capacity- new staffing structures• Building new relationships and partnerships• Being nimble• Strengthened HE relationships
ITT
• School DirectNQT Conference• Organised by 10 different schools• 45 schools send delegates• Over 60 attend
Research and Development: Closing the Gap and ISV
• Evidence led practice• DFE priority• EEF• Shifting fashions in relation to ISV
Thoughts about research
• Priorities on the ground are not those at the centre
• ‘Clinical interventions’- nice idea, but do they exist?
• Teaching School links to HE need to be more organic- partnership plus
Some things we could do better
• Serious research through partnership with HE • Strategic deployment of SLEs, LLEs and NLEs• Play a part in achieving coherence within a
changing system (new school structures, emergence of Royal College, changing role of professional associations, new models of accountability)