Our Collaborative Professional Enquiry Journey Knox Academy Our Collaborative Professional Enquiry Journey

School Context Roll of 769 pupils, predicted to grow significantly in the next 5 years. Mainly a rural community. SIMD profile 3-10 with our attainment gap in SIMD 4 (as a trend). Initial leaver destinations consistently above VC, ELC and National.

Our Recent Story Education Scotland Inspection in Nov 2016 Staff, parents and pupils very committed to a journey for improvement. Revisited our values and created a rigorous system of self evaluation to measure improvement.

Our New Policies Learning, Teaching & Assessment Tracking, Monitoring and Reporting Respectful Relationships for Learning Home Learning Safeguarding Sharing Classroom Experience Lots of new systems and expectations, but was there a clear and consistent improvement in classroom practice?

What Did We Do? 2017-18 3 Voluntary teaching and learning & communities (TLC’s) 3 groups based on action areas identified from self –evaluation activities. Areas included feedback, Questioning and Assessment 2018-19 Incorporated into the working time agreement (16 hours, with 4 attached to formal staff meetings). 8 groups, where staff opted into different themes.

School Improvement Plan QI 2.3 Learning, Teaching and Assessment Use the outcomes of practitioner enquiry to inform the work of the teaching and learning group in developing and sharing effective practice. QI 1.3 Leadership of Change Further embed practitioner enquiry as a key element of school improvement via staff engagement in Teacher Learning Communities. Continue to build capacity of staff and pupil leadership teams in order to drive forward further improvement.

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What will I need to do? Undertake relevant professional reading/ research and feedback and share practice and ideas with my enquiry group. Work with colleagues to develop an enquiry on a focus of our choosing. Contribute to a final document outlining rationale, intervention put in place, findings and outcomes.

Enquiring Question Name, Role, School What did you do? What did you do, with whom and when? What has happened as a result? What happened for both pupils and staff? How do you know? How has this impacted on your leadership learning? Where are you on your leadership journey and how has this been influenced by your enquiring approach? Why did you do it? Why did you do what you did in terms of your context, policy and literature? References Harvard Referencing: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/administration-and-support-services/library/public/harvard.pdf This is just a suggested template, please feel free to create your own. This slide is sized to A1 which is the size the poster will be printed at. The current text is very large (30) and could easily be reduced in order to include more content if need be, but perhaps don’t go any lower than about 18. Obviously including images would be great, but please ensure that you have permission from the subjects and your employer to share these. All posters will be printed for the event for you take away with you, and they will also be uploaded to the web. What are the implications? What are the implications of your learning for your practice, your school and more widely? Contact Details Your name, email address, website & twitter account. You could include a QR code of your details: http://www.qrstuff.com

Group Focus Teacher Lead Growth Mind set Emma Whitfield Co-operative Learning Strategies Alex Redford Feedback Anya Reynolds Improving Literacy in the Classroom Owen Edwards Improving Numeracy in the Classroom Katy Gourley Classroom Relationships and Learning Behaviour Angela MacDonald Questioning Kate Bulloch Effective Assessment Strategies Dot Ferguson

Dates for your Diary. Date Time Activity 13th August 2018 1pm -2pm Meet the group and consider our focus, sub-groups. 7th September 2018 1.45pm- 2.45pm Brief presentation from Lynn Milligan (Kelso High School) and Meeting 2 26th October 2018 Meeting 3 11th January 2019 Meeting 4 14th June 2019 Whole staff showcase Dates for your Diary. The WTA gives 16 hours to TLC’s to support professional development of staff. 4 hours of this is covered agreed meetings. The other 12 hours is for other meetings agreed by the group, professional reading, preparation and analysis of findings.

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