Naace Think Tank

A perspective on “The National Context”

London28th July 2010

Housekeeping• Fire – There are no planned fire alarms. If you hear the fire

alarm it is real. Please make your way out into the car park to the fire assembly point and await further instruction.

• Refreshments and lunch• Wi-Fi access – Jarvis Network

• Micro-blogging – Twitter – use #naace• www.slideshare.net/naaceconferences/naace-think-

tankslides• www.wallwisher.com/wall/DFEPlan• naace.primarypad.com/1

Agenda 10.00 – 10.30 Tea & Coffee and introductions

10.30 – 10.40 Naace Welcome & Housekeeping

10.40 – 11.30 ICT IS Important - Do we agree? Why and how is it important?

11.30 – 12.00 What are our Key Messages? (The USP of ICT in a learning environment)

12.00 – 12.30 Who are the audience? And who needs to hear what?

12.30 – 13.15 Buffet Lunch

13.15 – 13.45 What do we want those who hear our message to do? How do we provoke this reaction?

13.45 – 14.15 Building a Strategy (and Practical Products) for defending the place of ICT in Education - What should it include?

14.15 – 14.45 Naace is about community - how can we build the effectiveness of that community so that our VOICE is heard and effective?

14.45 – 15.00 Summary

15.00 Coffee & Close

Designed to turn government on its head, taking power away from Whitehall and putting it into the hands of people and communities. Once these reforms are in place, people themselves will have the power to improve our country and our public services, through the mechanisms of local democratic accountability, competition, choice, and social action.

DFE Draft Structural Reform Plans

Over the past ten years, the gulf in achievement between the rich and the poor has widened and the attainment gap between fee-paying schools and state schools has doubled.

Solution?

Is ICT part of the solution?

Draft Structural Reform Plan

Theme

• Greater autonomy for Schools• Improved Parental Choice• Whole System Improvement• More support for the poorest

Questions• What is this?

• What will it look like?• What will it mean for Naace?• What will it mean for you?

Attracting the best people into teaching by expanding Teach First and further enhancing the prestige and esteem of the teaching profession.

Focus relentlessly on improving behaviour by ensuring that parents accept their responsibilities, teachers have the discretion they need to get on with the job, and pupils respect adult authority at all times.

We will also provide sharper, more intelligent accountability that focuses on underperformance by reforming Ofsted.

Whole system improvement

We will introduce simpler revenue and capital funding systems to give better value for money and to tackle disadvantage and raise standards.

We will reform the curriculum so that it reflects the best collective wisdom we have about how children learn, what they should know and how quickly they can grow in knowledge.

We will publish a White Paper in the autumn setting out further details of these reforms.

Whole system improvement

ACTIONS1.1 Allow all schools to apply for Academy status

i. Legislate to allow conversion ii. Establish application processiii. Invite applications from outstanding schoolsiv. Approve applications from outstanding schoolsv. Sign first funding agreements with successful schoolsvi. Calculate budgets and transfer assets to first tranche of schools vii. First schools convert to Academy statusviii. Open applications to wider group of schools

1.2 Enable the takeover by an experienced education provider of underperforming schoolsi. Sign funding agreements with sponsors taking over schools in academic

year 2010/11ii. Identify new sponsors for underperforming schools that will convert in

2011/12iii. Match new sponsors with underperforming schools

Driving change with a new generation of independently-run state schools

Start End

May 2010 May 2010May 2010July 2010

Aug 2010 Aug 2010Sep 2010Nov 2010

May 2010 Sep 2010May 2010 Aug 2011

1. Independent state schools (1/2)

MILESTONESA. First Education Bill introducedB. First wave of outstanding schools become AcademiesC. First underperforming schools reopen as AcademiesD. White Paper setting out full education plans publishedE. Second Education Bill introduced

May 2010Autumn 2010Autumn 2010Oct 2010 Nov 2010

ACTIONS• Convert next tranche of underperforming schools to Academy status• Repeat process for academic year 2012/13

1.3 Make it easier for new providers to open new Schools • Agree arrangements for pre-application support• Establish criteria for approving a new School• Open application process • Amend planning guidance to increase number of potential sites for new

schools• Establish a revenue funding model for new school development• Revise school building guidance• DfE to work with first tranche of new Schools • Begin approving the opening of the first new Schools• Open the first new Schools

Driving change with a new generation of independently-run state schools

Start End

Sep 2011Sep 2011 Sep 2012

Jun 2010Jun 2010Jun 2010Jun 2010 Jan 2011Jun 2010 Aug 2011Aug 2010 Jan 2011Aug 2010 Sep 2011Nov 2010 Jul 2011Sep 2011

1. Independent state schools (2/2)

MILESTONESF. DfE begin work with first pathfinder new SchoolsG. First new Schools to open

Aug 2010Sep 2011

ACTIONS2.1 Design pupil premium allocation mechanism

i. Identify funding model for pupil premium for phased implementation from 2011/12

ii. Identify sources of funding for pupil premiumiii. Identify eligibility criteria for pupil premium iv. Discuss with stakeholders and consult on operation of the premium from 2011v. Launch a study to evaluate the impact of practices that the premium could

pay forvi. Confirm rate of premium (subject to Spending Review) vii. Give model advice on using resources to raise achievement viii. Pupil premium funds transferred to schools ix. Evaluate initial findings from first year of operation of pupil premiumx. Evaluate patterns of deprivation to establish where pupil premium produces

fastest improvement

Introduce a new pupil premium for disadvantaged pupils with significant funding from outside schools’ budgets to tackle disadvantage and raise standards

Start End

May 2010Jul 2010Jul 2010Jul 2010Sep 2010 Jul 2011Nov 2010Jul 2011Sep 2011Sep 2012 Feb 2013Sep 2012 2015

2. Pupil premium

MILESTONESA. Funding model identifiedB. Eligibility criteria identifiedC. Additional funds identified D. Pupil premium introduced

Nov 2010Nov 2010Nov 2010Sep 2011

Start End

May 2010 Sep 2010May 2010 Sep 2010Jul 2010Jul 2010 Oct 2010

Jul 2010 Sep 2010Oct 2010 Apr 2011Oct 2010 Nov 2011

Jul 2010 Sep 2010

3. Reducing bureaucracy

ACTIONS3.1 Establish action plan and priority areas

i. Review statutory duties, guidance and policies/documents for schoolsii. Review non-statutory guidance and other documentsiii. Announce policy changes that would make immediate impact on reducing

bureaucracyiv. Review data collection and develop a more robust scrutiny process to

reduce burden of data collection on schools

3.2 Implementation phasei. Remove guidance and other documentation with no statutory basisii. Take forward legislative changes requiring secondary legislationiii. Take forward legislative changes requiring primary legislation

3.3 Ongoing arrangementsi. Establish process to minimise bureaucratic burdens of new policies on

schools

Ensure all schools are freed of bureaucracy so that they can focus on raising standards

MILESTONESA. Early announcement on reducing bureaucracyB. First set of burdens lifted C. Second announcement on reducing bureaucracy

Jul 2010Sep 2010Nov 2010

ICT IS importantDo we agree? Why and how is it important?

In this Context

Lunch

Ideas received so far:• Guidance paper for school head teachers for LA colleagues to

disseminate• Guidance for all to write to MPs• Press only meeting to tell them what they need to know -

and/or Press conference• Meeting with New Schools Network to give them a Vision for

ICT - offer Free Schools a free consultancy day from a volunteer Naace member focussing on introduction to SRF and its value in defining vision.

• Facebook campaign – targetted at pupils - what does my teacher need to know?

• Development of 'what my teacher needs to know' course• A Naace promotional video• Bite size courses on ictcpd4free - offers to write?• Course for strategic leaders in Vision for ICT

Suggestions for New Courses

• Specialists Modules for Early Years Practitioners including, for example:– e-safety , – Communicating in Text, – Multimedia presentation , – Home school Links / Talking to parents, – Using online resources for professional purposes

• Exploiting ICT for Special Needs • How to get the most from your VLE• Copyright – specific short course• ICT for NQTs• Tips and techniques for effective use of Interactive

Whiteboards• Mentoring Training using ICT• APP in ICT

What is it that we want to do as a community?

Groups – defined by you5 mins to think about this

• What is the theme?• Who is the audience?

• What is the strategy & the technology we can use?• What reaction are we hoping for?

Use www.primarypad.com/naace

Community

What are our Key Messages as a community of professionals dedicated to the advancement of education through the appropriate use of ICT?

(The USP of ICT in a learning environment)

Who are the audience?

Who needs to hear what?

What do we want those who hear our message to do?

How do we provoke this reaction?

Building a Strategy (and Practical Products) for defending the place of ICT in Education – What should it include?

How do we efficiently and effectively build these products?

Naace is about community – how can we build the effectiveness of that community so that our VOICE is heard and effective?

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