welcome to the primary excellence teaching school alliance

Welcome to the

Primary Excellence

Teaching School Alliance

We believe that:

Every child deserves to be taught by an outstanding teacher

Ever child deserves to go to an outstanding school

Every school Requires Improvement

Outstanding is only the beginning of the journey

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Our Aim is that every school in our Alliance becomes Outstanding

Teaching schools are expected to take an increasing responsibility for leading and managing the schools system.

1. Initial Teacher Training (ITT)

2. Continuing Professional Development and Leadership development

3. Succession planning and talent management

4. School to School support

5. Specialist Leaders of Education (SLEs)

6. Research and development (R&D)

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The six major strands of teaching school activity

Collaboration is at the heart of the teaching school model.

We are expected to work with a number of schools and other strategic partners to form a teaching school alliance.

Working together, our alliance will deliver support for other schools in our wider network.

Ultimately, teaching schools are accountable to their peers

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Teaching Schools

The power of collective capacity is that it involves ordinary people accomplishing extraordinary things – for two reasons. One is that knowledge about effective practice becomes more

widely available and accessible on a daily basis. The second reason is more powerful still – working together

generates commitment. Moral purpose, when it stares you in the face through children and your peers working together to make lives and society better; is palpable, indeed virtually irresistible. The collective motivational well seems bottomless. The speed of effective change increases exponentially…

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Collaboration

Collaborative practice is more powerful and more lasting than other forms of accountability, performance management, appraisal or Ofsted as it provides the mechanism for peer accountability and peer learning.

Michael Fullen

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Collaboration

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UBUNTU –

‘I Am Because We Are’

Strategic Partners

Primary Members

Associate Members

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Three areas of our Alliance:

Diocese of Exeter Devon Local Authority Torbay Local Authority Exeter University Plymouth University University of St Mark and St John First Federation Learning Academy Partnership

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Strategic Partners

Schools which wish to be an integral part of the Primary Excellence Teaching School

Schools that wish to be at the heart of the direction and future of the Primary Excellence Teaching School

Schools who wish to; share their very best practice, share data and information, support and challenge each other to improve

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Primary Members

Schools who are part of the wider Alliance network

Schools who wish to interface with specific aspects of the Teaching School’s work

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Associate Members

Partnerships need to be multi-dimensional

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School

Member of a Learning

Community

Member of a Teaching School Alliance

Involved in a wider

Partnership or Network

Member of a Federation

Or MAT

Will Teaching School Alliances do it on their own?

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Teaching School

Alliance A

Teaching School Alliance

C

Teaching School Alliance

B

Through unleashing the enormous range of skills,

expertise and talent from across our Alliance schools

we will ensure that:

‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts’

Aristotle

Synergy

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A Golden Opportunity

Build learning capacity within schools, communities and systems

Remove cross historical, structural, cultural and political barriers

Improve outcomes for children through system challenge and renewal

Generate social capital

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Four requirements of 21st Century School Leadership

Four Capitals for the development of Teaching School Alliances

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Moral Purposea concern for all

Social Capitaltrust, co-operation and challenge

Knowledge ManagementAccessing what works and why

Organisational CapabilityWorking for synergy

Matthews, P and Berwick, G (2013) Teaching Schools: first amongst equals

Social Capital

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Social Capital

NetworksBonding/Bridging

Personal Trust

Intellectual Trust

Values

Reciprocity

Participation and Safety

Trust

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Trust

Character

Intent

Caring

Transparency

Openness

Integrity

Honesty

Fairness

Authenticity

Competence

Capability

Skills

Knowledge

Experience

Results

Reputation

Credibility

Performance

Sometimes you really have to Trust

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Support with out Challenge may lead to a feeling of comfort but will be unproductive

Challenge without Support may be threatening and be equally unproductive

Challenge and Support with Trust leads to sustained improvement

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CST

Challenge, Support and Trust

1. Initial Teacher Training (ITT)

2. Continuing Professional Development and Leadership development

3. Succession planning and talent management

4. School to School support

5. Specialist Leaders of Education (SLEs)

6. Research and development (R&D)

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The six major strands of teaching school activity

‘Responsibility and Accountability’

Communities of schools bound together by: Shared Responsibility and Accountability Trust and Common Vision Intellectual and Social Capital

We need to believe that the future is that we are all in this together.

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Primary Excellence

Teaching School Alliance

Primary Excellence

C/O Blackpool CE Primary School

Liverton

Newton Abbot

Devon

TQ12 6JB

Tel: 01626 821316

enquiries@primaryexcellence.org

www.primaryexcellence.org

Robert Hill’s two areas of partnership

Joint professional development

Talent management and leadership development

High social

capital

Mentoring and

coaching

Fit governance

Sustainable shared leadership

Knowledge informed systems

Clear vision and strategy

Hard-edged mutual

accountability

These two areas are particularly relevant to

partnerships challenging and

holding each other to account