staffordshire and stoke on trent schools’ enterprise education network (s’een)

14 September 2006 S'EEN school leaders workshop presentation

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

S’EEN School leaders workshop

14 September 2006

Forest of Mercia Innovation Centre / Yarnfield Conference Centre

14 September 2006 S'EEN school leaders workshop presentation

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

Aims – when I leave I will know;

• the current context for enterprise education

• what S’EEN is for and how it will operate

• why supporting the TLA is good for schools

• what Ofsted will be looking for when inspecting enterprise

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

Starter and ice breaker

• take a character card from the envelope on your table

• another person with a character from the same cartoon or film

• tell each other about something your school has done over the last year that is connected with enterprise

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

Enterprise

• a readiness to embark on bold new ventures

• taking risks to achieve success

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

Current context

• enterprise education in UK has a long and chequered history

• TVEI, local level partnerships, EBLOs, TECs etc

• provision was inconsistent and not backed up by statutory entitlement except for the EIU cross curricular element of the original National Curriculum

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

What does the Treasury say?

• rates of entrepreneurial activity in the UK remain moderate by international standards

• an environment that encourages enterprise and supports people who take opportunities and risks is a crucial ingredient of productivity improvement

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

So they want to….

• improve support for small and new business

• promote a step change in the UK’s enterprise culture

• pretend the history of enterprise education started in 1997 with Gordon Brown as this started as a Treasury initiative, not a DfES one

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

Key publications

• A review of enterprise and the economy in education (Davis Review – Feb 2002)• Work – related learning for all at key stage 4 (QCA 2003)• Creating an enterprise culture (HM Treasury - Jan 2004)• Learning to be enterprising (Ofsted – Aug 2004)• Developing enterprising young people (Ofsted – November 2005)

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

Enterprise Education OutcomesEnterprise Education supports the development of the knowledge and understanding, skills and attributes that young people require to thrive in their future working lives.

Enterprise Education is more concerned with skills than with knowledge.

Work related learning is directly connected with employability.

Enterprise education can be seen as the skills that support employability within the framework of WRL or as a stand alone area of learning in its own right.

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

Moving the agenda forward

• Enterprise advisors

• Resources and enterprise pathfinders

• Business and Enterprise specialist status

• Enterprise in all schools?

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

S’EEN

• National picture – Paul Delbridge-Smith

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

S’EEN

• Local response – “Area 47”

• Single action plan

• Builds on existing good practice and networks

• Enterprising schools – not just schools that ‘do’ enterprise

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Autumn term:• Leaders workshop• Practitioners workshop• Network schools meeting• Consultancy work starts in schools• Planning for ‘cluster workshops’• First round of evaluation work undertaken

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Spring term:• Cluster workshops• Network schools meeting• Consultancy work continues in schools• Website material in place

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Summer term:• Outreach work in cluster schools• Network schools meeting• Final round of evaluation• Report on key issues for sustaining S’EEN

after funding stops

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

SSAT Learning Academy

• GTCE Teacher Learning Academy partnership

• Mechanism for staff to gain professional recognition for work they undertake in connection with S’EEN and enterprise development

• Four stage model accessible by all staff

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

SEF and Ofsted issues

•Key questionsHave we got agreed definitions of key concepts for enterprise?Are they written down?Do we have written aims and objectives for enterprise education?Is enterprise in the school development plan?How is the SMT involved?Who is nominated to lead enterprise developments and are other enterprise champions nominated to help?How much time is granted for preparation?Have we got a cash resource allocated specifically to enterprise?How is enterprise communicated throughout the school?

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

Why do anything different?

In times of change it is the learners who inherit the earth while the learned are beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

He also wrote a book called ‘Future Shock’ the central theme of which is about the impact on society of too much change in too short a period of time.

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools’ Enterprise EducationNetwork (S’EEN)

www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk/seen

www.staffpart.org.uk/enterprise_network.htm

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Questions

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