1. GROWING PARTNERSHIPS SIR ANDREW CARTER O.B.E. SOUTH FARNHAM SCHOOL
Change your thoughts and you change your world
Norman Peale
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
H.Jackson-Brown
GROWING PARTNERSHIPS
SIR ANDREW CARTER O.B.E.
SOUTH FARNHAM SCHOOL

2. AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME
Teachingchools
The best way to predict the future is to create it –
Abraham Lincoln

3. SYSTEM LEADERSHIP What you want to achieve not what you want to do
Don’t focus on the means – that comes later
Gather your team
Know what ‘great’ looks like – institutional memory
Move to system leadership
National Agenda

4. The education businessUK
ENGLAND
Number of schools
32,323
24,347
Customers daily
9,316m
7,748m
Teachers
506,000
423,000
Wage Bill
£23.8 billion
Education Spending
£89.5 billion
5.5% of GDP
93% of market
At one quarter the cost of private sector
A school in every community

5. SCHOOLS GROW UP
Make their own way
Choose their partners

6. MULTI-ACADEMY TRUSTS FORMING PART OF STATE- FUNDED DIVERSITY
26,000 Schools
8.5 customers daily
410,000 teachers
500,000 ‘others’
2.3m working in education 28.4m in UK
Wage Bill approx 19 billion per year
Education spending £58>>>65 billion
5.5% of GDP
93% of market
At one quarter the cost of the private sector
A school in every community
.....and now Multi Academy Trusts

7. PARTNERSHIPS GIVE OPPORTUNITY TO.....
Strengthen and develop workforce
Grow and evolve
Gain commitment to shared projects
Release creative energy
Do things we haven’t even imagined yet
Being part of a partnership/group is a conceptual leap not another initiative

8. PARTNERSHIPS
Challenges
The same market?
Who’s in the
driving seat?

9. ROLE OF SCHOOLS–HEI-OTHERS
Effective links between School Direct providers and
Universities and providers of PGCE and
Masters Accreditation
Develop central training programmes together with
additional short experiences largely delivered from the
Alliance schools using the strengths and specialisms
of schools e.g. phonics, SEN
Have a clear focus on the development of
behaviour management strategies
Support each other’s local teacher
recruitment needs

10. WHAT WILL STAY THE SAME F0R SCHOOLS?
Accountability to providing the best outcomes for pupils
We will continue to invest in people

11. Growing the partnership Model: Strategic and National Involvement
Teaching School Council
ITT Strategy Group –
National Conferences
Opportunity for schools to lead the way
New Curriculum
TS have large part in roll out
Greater freedom – ‘how the garden grows is for schools to decide’ Elizabeth Truss
No new statutory document
No national strategies
No national roll out
A cultural shift to be embedded

12. Growing the partnershipModel: Research and development
Medical profession analogy
Schools needing to exploring wider territory
Research and Development
What Makes Great Pedagogy?

13. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry