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Clustering together to advance school improvement - full report
Author:
Alison Lock
Subject:
Strategic planning
Audience:
Headteachers, Middle leaders and aspiring headteachers
Date of publication:
May 2011 |
File format and size:
PDF, 248 Kb
Research associate Alison Lock explores how a group of rural primary schools, working together with the same school improvement partner (SIP), could positively affect the leadership of their schools through group strategic planning and the more efficient use of headteacher time and expertise.
The research posed the following questions:
- How can working collaboratively offer support and training to headteachers, and what impact does that have on their schools?
- How can a supportive group, working together, improve the pastoral wellbeing of headteachers?
- How can supported collaborative partnership enable headteachers to think strategically beyond external agendas?
- How can collaborative partnership support governors in their understanding of school data, through the identification of key points and the sharing of expertise?
In exploring these questions through semi-structured interviews with a small sample of school leaders, this research offers applicable findings and strategies to school leadership teams in wider contexts, to promote reflection on systems and partnerships and how they might best be utilised to make best use of the time and expertise offered by other external colleagues.
It is important to recognise that although from April 2011 SIPs no longer had a formally defined role in performance management, the generic findings of this research may still be of value as they may be transferable to other groups working with national or local leaders of education (NLEs or LLEs) and other externally provided support colleagues.
A summary of this report is also available.
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