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Promoting Collaboration

Promoting collaboration

These pages are designed to help you explore greater collaboration between your own organisation and schools and children’s services in your local area. Such collaboration supports the delivery of extended services.

  • Promoting Collaboration project

    An overview of the National College's Promoting Collaboration project.

  • Key themes

    An exploration of the four key themes that emerged from the National College’s Promoting Collaboration project: collaborative leadership; role of the cluster co-ordinator; governance and sustainability of clusters.

  • Questions and outcomes

    The 10 questions that formed the basis of the project and framed the work of the clusters. Answers to the questions are illustrated via reference to relevant case studies of schools and organisations involved in the project.

  • Case studies

    Case studies from the project, which – combined – explore the background to the project, its key challenges and issues, and its key learning and outcomes.

  • Videos

    Reflections from two of the clusters of schools that participated in the project.

  • Self-audit tool

    The audit will enable you to examine your current practice in four key areas related to developing a collaborative leadership approach to extended services provision.

  • Tools for setting up school clusters

    Hints, tips and useful templates designed to provide support to anyone involved in working collaboratively across a number of schools (a cluster).

Publications
  • Cluster tool: effective meetings
    A tool designed to provide support for holding effective meetings to those involved in working collaboratively across a number of schools (a cluster).
  • Cluster tool: time management
    A tool designed to provide support for time management to those involved in working collaboratively across a number of schools (a cluster).
  • Cluster tool: change management
    A tool designed to provide support for change management to those involved in working collaboratively across a number of schools (a cluster).
  • Cluster tool: leadership
    A tool designed to provide support for effective leadership to those involved in working collaboratively across a number of schools (a cluster).
  • Cluster tool: benefits management
    A tool designed to provide support for benefits management to those involved in working collaboratively across a number of schools (a cluster).

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Case studies
  • Promoting Collaboration: Sutton East
    National College resources: Birmingham's Sutton East cluster finds a collaborative solution to short-term funding for family support.
  • Promoting Collaboration: Sherwood
    National College resources: Nottingham's Sherwood cluster of schools develops extended services as a seamless extension to their existing strong collaboration - a case study.
  • Promoting Collaboration: Selly Oak
    National College resources: how a strong and determined cluster co-ordinator crafted an effective extended services cluster from a group of schools that would not naturally have formed a collaborative alliance - a case study.
  • Promoting Collaboration: Middlesbrough
    National College resources: extended services teams within schools reduce Middlesbrough headteachers' workload and promote collaboration.
  • Promoting Collaboration: Lincroft
    National College rersources: trusting relationships create a strong cornerstone for collaboration for Bedfordshire schools - a case study.

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Interactive resources