1. Our Collaborative Professional Enquiry Journey
Knox Academy
Our Collaborative Professional Enquiry Journey

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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?

5. What Did We Do?
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
Incorporated into the working time agreement (16 hours, with 4 attached to formal staff meetings). 8 groups, where staff opted into different themes.

6. 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.

7. Professional Standards

8. 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.

9. 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:
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, address, website & twitter account.
You could include a QR code of your details:

10. 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

11. 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.

12. Some Reading