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Learning conversations in learning networks: transferring knowledge, creating solutions, learning together

Author: National College
Subject: School-to-school support
Audience: Headteachers, Middle leaders and aspiring headteachers, Early years leaders
File format and size: PDF, 447 Kb

Learning networks offer a unique opportunity to work together to share best practice, examine your own way of doing things and gain new perspective. The key to the process is learning conversations with other professionals. This guide shows you how to have conversations which are memorable and valuable, where you truly learn.

It explains how to develop a deep, structured dialogue where you can ask the questions you really want answered without fear or recrimination, and find out how others' experiences are relevant to you.

It takes you through the steps you need to make the most of your conversations, including how to prepare the ground, establish a structure, lay down guidelines and protocols, and steer the conversation so you all learn from it.

Including a step-by-step guide to developing learning conversations and sample questions to help you, it gives you all the tools you need to turn talk into action.