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Transforming lives through learning
The ‘Scottish approach’ to improving education and the role of HGIOS within it
Dr Bill Maxwell Chief Executive
13 May 2015
Transforming lives through learning
Vision, aim and context
National Debate and CfE set high level vision and purpose for education in Scotland
Co-produced - consensus and engagement with strong guiding coalition
3 clear priority aims now agreed nationally raising attainment eradicating inequity enhancing public confidence
Transforming lives through learning
A strategy for ‘whole-system’ improvementdesigned for a specifically Scottish context...
building on respect for education and teachers
focusing on education as a ‘common societal good’ rather than a ‘market commodity’
local authority duty to drive improvement
building on pioneering work in some key areas curriculum design and assessment self-evaluation and inspection
Transforming lives through learning
...informed by a growing body of international evidence
It depends where you are
starting from....
How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better (McKinsey, 2010)
different approaches appropriate to different
stages in the improvement journey
poor
fair
good
great
excellent
Transforming lives through learning
A ‘good to great’ strategy based on:
giving practitioners more scope to exercise professional judgement and innovate
promoting engagement in collaborative learning and enquiry at all levels of the system
creating a strong culture of evidence-based evaluation - from local to national level
building ‘intelligent’ accountability systems which support improvement
a 3-way partnership – school – LA – national bodies
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in summary
we are aiming to build a ‘learning’ education system:
....in which a ‘virtuous cycle of improvement’ continuously drives innovation, learning and the spread of new knowledge about professional practice
Transforming lives through learning
BETTER LEARNING
applied anddevelopedflexibly in
local contexts
impactevaluatedat multiple
levels
knowledge drawnout about
‘what works’
knowledgespread
effectively topractitioners
The Virtuous Cycle of Improvement
external research and intelligence
Transforming lives through learning
5 steps to creating the virtuous cycle
1. Setting the right high-level framework – CfE
2. Ensuring high level capacity in the workforce
3. Building the capacity of schools to self-improve
4. Ensuring a strong flow of evidence and knowledge back into the system
5. Ensuring knowledge is spread back to practitioners in the most useful form possible
Transforming lives through learning
5 steps to creating the virtuous cycle
1. Setting the right high-level framework – CfE
2. Ensuring high level capacity in the workforce
3. Building the capacity of schools to self-improve
4. Ensuring a strong flow of evidence and knowledge back into the system
5. Ensuring knowledge is spread back to practitioners in the most useful form possible
Resources to support self-improvement
…setting the agenda
InsightSenior Phase Benchmarking Tool
Transforming lives through learning
Resources to support self-improvement
…making change happen
school improvement partnership programme
.... Then making the improvement
literacy and numeracy hubs
Raising Attainment for All
collaborative professional enquiry
Transforming lives through learning
A key tool in the toolkit - How good is our school?How should it evolve?
2015
HGIOS 4
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Transforming lives through learning
Round table discussion What sort of resources and support have had the most impact in driving self-evaluation and improvement in your local authority/school?Do we have a balanced package of resources and support to help schools be inward, outward and forward looking?How does HGIOS need to change to maximise its role in the modern ‘school improvers’ toolkit and what other tools do we need to build around it to ensure self-evaluation leads to real improvement?