1. Transforming Schools Transforming Education Janet Morrison BA MEd (London) PGTC

2. Transforming schools and education– what’s it all about? Academies Building Schools for the Future Community cohesion 21 st century demands Learners © Christian Boltanksi

3. Academies Sponsors challenge traditional thinking on how schools are run and what they should be like for students. They seek to make a complete break with cultures of low aspiration which afflict too many communities and their schools. The Standards Site – What are Academies?

4. Building Schools for the Future © Aedas

5. Community Cohesion There is a strong sense of an individual’s rights and responsibilities when living in a particular place – people know what everyone expects of them, and what they can expect in turn. There is a strong sense of trust in institutions locally to act fairly in arbitrating between different interests and for their role and justifications to be subject to public scrutiny. Our Shared Future, the final report of the Commission on Integration and Cohesion, June 2007

6. Demands of the 21 st Century It is estimated that by the age of 38, today’s learners will have had 10 – 14 jobs We are currently preparing students for jobs that do not exist Using technologies that do not yet exist In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet

7. Our children 98% children aged 12 in the UK ‘want to do well at school’ Only 38% look forward to going to school 84% young people play a computer game at least once a fortnight 72% teachers have never played a computer game The number of text messages sent and received each day exceeds the population of the entire planet Data from Shift Happens by Karl Fisch, Ray Fleming and Jeff Brenman March 2007

8. North Westminster Community School 3 - site school in transition to 2 Academies ‘Very challenging physical, social and educational circumstances’ (HMI) The ‘most complex’ school in England (DfES) 1865 students, approximately 53% FSM 1516 speak English as an additional language © Faisal Adbu’Allah

9. Priorities for Education Quality of learning Enabling students to make appropriate choices A sense of worth Developing student responsibilities © Christian Boltanski

10. ‘this positive climate encouraged the pupils to make confident contributions and to actively engage in learning … The school works hard and imaginatively to involve the pupils and parents from all communities in the life of the school and to raise the aspirations of all of these pupils, including those who have lived in this country for only a short time’ HMI May 2005

11. References © Faisal Abdu’Allah Academies: http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/academies/what_are_academies/?v ersion=1 Schools for the future: http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/_doc/7991/T Guidance for schools on Community Cohesion http://www.cohesioninstitute.org.uk/resources/Publications/Guidance Shift Happens : http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=8548df743a186 d15f3be

12. Janet Morrison janet@transformingeducation.co.uk T: 020 8244 4200 M: 07768 741049