14 to 19: Leadership, change and collaboration Dr John Dunford General Secretary

2. 14 to 19: Leadership, change and collaboration Dr John Dunford General Secretary Association of School and College Leaders

3. 14 to 19: leadership, change and collaboration • The next generation of school leaders • Sustainable leadership • Schools in partnership • Role map • Partnership issues • Mechanics and dynamics • Lessons from 14 to 19 pathfinders • Raising achievement • Government policy changes • “It could all go horribly wrong”

4. The next generation of school leaders • PricewaterhouseCoopers report • Recruitment and retention • Succession planning • Positives and negatives of school leadership

5. Sustainable leadership • Focus on learning • Partnership working • Distributed leadership • Building a local learning community

6. Partnerships that work • Excellence in Cities • London Challenge • Raising Achievement, Transforming Learning (RATL) • Sports colleges • 16 to 19 consortia • Federations • Networked Learning Communities

7. Hard federations/ trusts, single governing body 14 to 19 consortia Benchmarking groups Soft federations, joint management structure Vertical integrations, secondary, special, primary

8. Horizontal and vertical • Secondary schools collaborating • Primary schools collaborating • Primary, special and secondary partnerships

9. The partnership spectrum

10. Developing Partnerships • 14 to 19 • Behaviour • Every Child Matters • Extended schools • Trusts

11. School improvement partnership 14 to 19 consortium Behaviour collaborative Specialist group Benchmarking group

13. Partnership issues (1) • Common goals • Extent of collaboration • Ethos • Uniform • Religious affiliation • Teaching and learning styles • Assessment • Lunchtime • Trust • Commitment

14. Partnership issues (2) • Leadership and management • Governance • Timetable • IT systems • Funding • Exam centres • Quality assurance • Accountability • Developing a shared curriculum • Communicating with parents and community

15. Mechanics and dynamics • Mechanics • Meetings • Audits • Systems • Dynamics • Relationships • Ideas • Values

16. Potential partnership problems • Admissions • Loss of autonomy • Time • School/college pay and conditions • Staff fears • Parent fears • Student fears • LA/LSC roles • Costs

17. Cost of partnership • Excellence in Cities • Leadership Incentive Grant • Beacon schools • Collaboration costs money • Cost of not collaborating may be greater

18. Lessons from 14 to 19 pathfinders • Understand the interaction of national policy and local context • Develop strategic vision and high level commitment • Exercise strategic leadership to build consensus • Establish a robust infrastructure based on a high level deputies’ group • Model and estimate costs clearly • Assess the effects of different institutional structures • Work from fundamental curriculum principles rather than existing models in constructing student progression routes • Use protocols to deal with areas of divergent practice • Understand students’ learning aspirations and profiles • Build shared staff development programmes • Build in quality assurance • Stick at it – partnership takes time • Celebrate success

19. Raising achievement • Collaboration raises achievement • ASCL research project 2007 • Supported by RM and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

20. Government policy changes needed • Evidence based reform • Promote more collaboration, less competition • Funding • Accountability • Inspection • LA/LSC roles

21. “It could all go horribly wrong” • A levels, GCSEs and diplomas • Universities, especially Russell Group • Independent school participation • Clear link to work • 2008 review promised