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    • Leadership for personalised learning
      • Networks and partnerships
        
        • Making it happen
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Networks and partnerships

Personalised learning involves a focus on the whole student as learner. The school cannot work in isolation from all the other partners that contribute to effective learning and educational success.

For personalised learning to work it means that school leaders will need to develop highly effective strategies to:

• integrate parents and carers into the learning process, for example, the idea of parents as co-educators
• develop highly interdependent working with other schools, colleges, universities and other providers, especially with regard to 14–19 provision
• ensure that extended services are seen as an integral component of personalised learning, that is, ensuing access to effective learning opportunities
• relate the personalised learning agenda to other public services as part of the movement towards personalised services
• develop links with the local community and virtual communities to maximise learning resources and opportunities
• support moves towards rethinking governance to recognise the changes outlined above

"Parents are more involved now so that everything centres round the child, you're more informed about how children are progressing." (Parent,. Mills Hill Primary)

Case studies

The full case studies provide practical examples of how leaders are putting the ideas behind personalising learning into practice. Brief examples (vignettes) relating to networks and partnerships are also available.

• Full case studies
• Vignettes

Making it happen:practical tools

Use these practical tools to review this topic.

Reflective questions

Q: Which communities, networks and partnerships does your school engage with?

Q: In what ways do these networks support personalised learning in your school?

Q: In what ways do partnerships with parents support learning outcomes?

Q: What are the potential new networks that would support personalised learning in school?

Q: How does your school meet the needs and aspirations of your community?

Leadership for personalising learning: a framework