At The Staff College, we have been committed to championing excellence through equity in education since our inception in 1999. We believe that addressing the needs of those who find learning and socialisation most difficult benefits the entire school community. This belief, combined with our fundamental belief that children and young people learn best when they feel valued, respected and included, has guided our school improvement work.
The Staff College is currently working with a number of local authorities and organisations in local areas to support the development of sector-led and system-wide approaches for transformative change, including area-based partnerships. These are built around a shared sense of moral purpose and compelling supporting narrative, underpinned by robust governance and accountability.
We believe that addressing the needs of those who find learning and socialisation most difficult benefits the entire school community.
Facilitation from the College can help local leaders to develop a compelling vision and ambition across the wider learning community which achieves equity and excellence for all children and young people by:
- Reviewing the strength of local partnership arrangements and further opportunities for increased LA/school/ broader system collaboration.
- Reinforcing shared moral purpose and ambition.
- Creating a shared vision based on inclusion, equity and excellence for all children.
- Agreeing the key strategic tasks to develop and sustain a strategic board/ partnership to deliver a local system where no child is left behind.
- Supporting local leaders and enabling them to model and lead cultural change and a shift towards inclusion, equity and excellence across the local system.
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To support our approach and system-wide change, the College, in partnership with The University of Manchester has recently published, “Turning The Tide: A Study of Place-based School Partnerships“. This report proposes an approach based on area or locality school-led partnerships supported by active and engaged local authorities acting as system curators. We believe that local leadership with a sense of collective responsibility is a necessary component of a socially just and effective school system. Achieving excellence requires equity.
