valerie hannon director, dfes innovation unit, england aera montreal 2005 network-based reform:...
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Valerie Hannon
Director, DfES Innovation Unit, England
AERA Montreal 2005
Network-based Reform: challenges facing the
English education system
1. The story so far…
2. Evolution of the reform design: reacting to the data – and the interaction with politics
3. ‘Scaling up’: network expansion in an ambivalent climate
Source: Department for Education and Skills
Source: Department for Education and Skills
Finland
KoreaJapan
Iceland
Mexico
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SpainItaly
PolandGreece
Portugal
Luxembourg
GermanyHungary
SwitzerlandCzech RepublicDenmark
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Norway
Austria
Canada
Ireland
Sweden
AustraliaNew
Zealand
FranceBelgium
United States
United Kingdom
Social Equity
Mean
Perf
orm
an
ce in
Read
ing
Lit
era
cy
r = 0.20
High Quality Low Equity
High Quality High Equity
Low Quality Low Equity
Low Quality High Equity
Source: OECD (2001)
1st phase of reform
Ambitious standards
Devolvedresponsibility
Good data and clear targets
Access to best practice and quality professional development
Accountability
Intervention in inverse
proportion to success
HIGH CHALLENGE
HIGH SUPPORT
David Hopkins, 2005
High standards
Devolvedresponsibility
Comparative data
Best practice
Accountability
RewardsAssistance
Consequences
THE IMPROVING
SCHOOL
The performance management framework
Market forces
Parental choice
Pupil-led formula funding
Open enrolment
Greater transparency
Market entry and exit
(closure of poor schools)
Opening up supply and
demand
Specialist schools
City Academies
Michael Barber, 2005
Leadership
CPD
Networks
Clusters
Federations
Centres of Excellence
Solving local problems
Links to other services
Networked learning communities
Collaboration and capacity
The network landscape
School-to-schoolnetwork programmes
Excellencein Cities Leadership
IncentiveGrant
Leading EdgePartnerships
SpecialistSchools
NetworkedLearning
CommunitiesCollegiates
Federations
Under-performance collaborative
s
0 network
1 network
2 networks
3 networks
4 networks
5 networks
Secondary school participation in network programmes
Networks by purpose
Networks may begin with one
objective and grow to involve others
Funded programmes – LEPP, NLCs, SST, EiC
etc – may have networks inhabiting a range of the spaces/ intersections above
Enhancing the
curriculumoffer tolearners
Accelerating
improvement and
stimulating innovation
Creating new units of service delivery
Scaling up…
Primary Strategy Learning Networks
Leading Edge Partnerships (secondary)
In September 2005
9000 schools
Total budget £26m
£17k per
network 1500
networks
1100 schools
Annual budget £12.5m
£60k per
network 205
partnerships
The contribution of the research community? – we really need: • Good evidence, intelligently
interpreted, on the impact on student outcomes of collaborative practice
• A confident understanding of the necessary and sufficient conditions for that effective collaborative practice
And we need it in real time
Contact Us
Website: www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/innovation-unit
Phone: +44 20 792 56165
Address: DfES Innovation Unit 4T Sanctuary Buildings Great Smith Street Westminster London SW1P 3BT
E-mail: [email protected]