1. The School-Led System Roger Pope CBE, Chair of NCTL
Investing in your workforce, 2017 School Led Conference – 27 June 2017
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2. The school-led system ITT School improvement CPD & Leadership
Teaching School Alliances
Teaching Schools Council
Chartered College of Teaching
NCTL
RSCs
Part 1: The school-led system - overview
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3. Sub-regional improvement boards (e.g. RSC, LAs, MATs, Schools)
School improvement
Good
Grow the top
NLEs
TSAs
SLEs & NLGs
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Commission
Sub-regional improvement boards (e.g. RSC, LAs, MATs, Schools)
Not yet good enough

4. A career path for teachers
ITT
CPD
NPQs
Headship & beyond…
Part 1: The school-led system - overview
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5. Justine Greening, 16 February 2017
“I want CPD to run like a golden thread throughout teachers’ careers, with high-quality, evidence-based development available for all teachers, particularly in our most challenging schools.”
Justine Greening, 16 February 2017
Part 1: The school-led system - overview
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6. 588 teaching school alliances
1,263 NLEs
453 NLGs
7,760 SLEs
750 teaching schools &
588 teaching school alliances
Part 2 The school-led system in practice
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Note:
Over 27,000 recruited to postgraduate ITT in academic year 2016/17.
 Training via school-led routes:
11,000 in 2014/15 (excluding Teach First)
14,200 in 2015/16
Over 15,000 in 2016/17*
 *provisional data
36,698 total number of registrations on NPQ programmes
Sep 2016:
over 50% of ITT recruits on school-led routes
39,917 NPQ registrations

7. Tudor Grange SCITT, West Midlands
Part 2 The school-led system in practice
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Tudor Grange SCITT, West Midlands

8. They run a SCITT with 2 further TSAs to operate at scale.
The Cambridge Teaching Schools Network (CTSN) is a network of 5 teaching schools, forming 3 teaching school alliances.
They run a SCITT with 2 further TSAs to operate at scale.
After 5 years, they’ve grown from around 20 trainees to approximately 80 for 2017/18.
Strong partnership with Anglia Ruskin University offering access to Masters credits to all trainees.
Part 2 The school-led system in practice
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9. A story of school-to-school support
The Oxford Academy
Dec 2014 Ofsted rating ‘requires improvement’
Only around 1/3 of students achieving 5+ A*-C grades including English and maths
School governance flagged as a main area for improvement
RSC brokers support
In 2015, the RSC worked with the academy and the Diocese of Oxford, leading to Southfields Teaching School being awarded £15k school-to-school support funding to work with the academy
This funding provided extra capacity for governance and subject support in maths, science, English, literacy and numeracy
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10. A story of school-to-school support
The Oxford Academy
2015 and 2016 GCSE results improved so that approx. half of students achieved 5 A*-C including English & maths
Significant increase in number of students progressing to university
March 2015 Ofsted section 8 monitoring report:
“There has been no let-up in the pace of change seen at the inspection. Appropriate actions have already been taken to address the key priorities … The support provided by an experienced headteacher and national leader in education has been invaluable in improving governance and providing support to you.”
Nov 2016: Ofsted judged the school to be Good, with ‘effectiveness of leadership and management’ rated as Outstanding.
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11. Leadership training and CPD
Wandle Teaching School Alliance in Wandsworth – a collaborative learning partnership of 37 educational institutions
Through Joint Practice Development Groups, their staff learn together to improve outcomes for young people
They deliver NPQs in partnership with UCL’s Institute of Education, and run over 25 CPD courses across a range of topics
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12. Singapore maths CPD
Chorlton Park in Manchester is a lead primary school for a maths hub in the north west, which is led by Altringham Grammar School for Girls
3 main learning points
Subject knowledge
Focused questions
Same-day intervention
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“Pinpointing questions to develop further learning … tackling misconceptions and adapting teaching that same day … asking difficult questions to help a child move on with their mathematical knowledge.”
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13. The school-led system is growing…
Part 3 The school-led system – where next?
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14. Growing leadership Part 3 The school-led system – where next?
DfE leadership capacity building programmes
National professional qualifications (NPQs)
Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund (TLIF)
High Potential Middle Leaders programme (HPML)
High Potential Senior Leaders programme (HPSL)
Equality and Diversity Fund
Designated system leader programmes (eg teaching schools)
Leadership coaching pledge
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15. New NPQs ‘Leading a team’ ‘Leading across a school’ ‘Leading a school’
National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership (NPQML) – for aspirant and serving middle leaders
National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL) – for aspirant and serving senior leaders
National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) – for aspirant and serving headteachers
National Professional Qualification for Executive Leadership (NPQEL) – for aspirant and serving executive heads and CEOs
‘Leading a team’
‘Leading across a school’
‘Leading a school’
‘Leading across several schools’
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16. New NPQs 6 content areas – what a leader should know and be able to do
Strategy & improvement
Teaching & curriculum excellence
Leading with impact
Working in partnership
Managing resources & risks
Increasing capability
7 leadership behaviours – how the best leaders operate
commitment collaboration personal drive
resilience awareness integrity respect
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17. System leadership
We will continue to designate more system leaders in areas where they are most needed
We’ve changed the criteria so that ‘Good’ schools can apply
We’ve just concluded a recent application round for NLEs and teaching schools
Teaching schools have recruited over 7,700 SLEs
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18. Strategic School Improvement Fund
£140m to support those schools most in need and ensure more children are in good schools
Prevention and intervention
Strategic proposals supporting multiple schools
In addition to this funding, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) is committed to spending up to £20m over 2 years to scale up and disseminate evidence-based approaches
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19. Additional school improvement funding
£50m for LAs to monitor & commission school improvement
£72m to pilot a series of opportunity areas
£41m maths mastery programme
£13m regional academy growth fund (RSCs)
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20. Teacher Subject Specialism Training (TSST)
Purpose of TSST is to improve the subject knowledge of non-specialists and returning teachers
School-led training provided free of charge to participants
Launched for maths and physics in 2015/16
Expanded to include secondary modern foreign languages in 2016/17
Being delivered by 116 lead schools nationwide in 2016/17
2017/18 TSST application round closed 26 April Schools have recently been informed of the outcome of their application and successful schools attending start-up meetings this week
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21. Other NCTL programmes Leadership Equality and Diversity Fund
support for under-represented groups
58 projects approved for funding in 2016/17
Women Leading in Education
leadership coaching pledge and 9 new school-led regional networks
Maths hubs
30 out of 35 Maths hubs are teaching schools
now in their third year and already leading transformational change in maths education
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Equality and Diversity
58 projects approved for funding for 2016/17. Approximately 1100 places allocated nationally
Targeted Support Fund (TSF)
9 regional projects approved for funding in 2016/17. Approximately 950 places allocated across the 9 regions
School-led research and development
Workload Challenge: Funding for schools 11 schools have received funding to carry out collaborative research projects into efficient and effective approaches which reduce unnecessary workload. Projects are expected to be completed by Spring 2018.
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22. Leading my school … …Leading our schools
Part 3 The school-led system – where next?
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