Malcolm Groves

Regenerating Schools (eBook, PDF)

Leading transformation of standards and services through community engagement

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Schools acting alone cannot achieve the greatest possible improvement and transformation under the conditions that currently prevail. There is a growing appetite among senior leaders in schools for fresh approaches and fresh thinking around the national schools agenda - linking standards, future visions, community engagement and the implications for leadership.

This practical book aims to help senior leaders re-imagine and transform the partnership between their school and its community, and develop the capacity to lead that change. There is now the need for a step-change in emphasis from the school as an institution with sole focus on institutional improvement to the school as an agency able to lead community transformation.

By focusing on and improving relationships, schools can begin making a significant contribution to developing the entire community's capacity to learn, including those for whom it has a statutory responsibility.The purpose of this book is to explore what this means in practice, how those benefits could be achieved without losing focus on the need to raise attainment for all and what the implications are for school leaders now and in the future. Central to this approach is a concept of schools as agents of regeneration for themselves and for their communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781855395084
• Artikelnr.: 38457312

Autorenporträt

Malcolm Groves has over 30 years experience working at the leading edge of school transformation and developing the interface between school and community. As Senior Adviser to the Specialist Schools Trust, he helped to refocus the nature of specialist schools after the 1997 election. He has been an OFSTED registered inspector and a local authority inspector for community education.

His career also includes deputy headship in London and a period as deputy chief executive of a national youth organisation. He was the first youth community tutor in Kent, pioneering approaches to the community involvement of young people and their active participation in decision-making. He currently works nationally as an education consultant and has developed the well-regarded Community Leadership Programme for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD         Professor Brian J. Caldwell  
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 
INTRODUCTION
 
Section 1: IMAGINE
1         What to say about us?
2         Beyond the island
3         The success and stalling of school improvement
4         Shift happens
5         Digital world - analogue school
6         Learning for real
7         Three Rs in Regeneration
 
CHANGE STUDY 1: Kunskapsskolan. Sweden
 
Section 2: UNDERSTAND
8          A brief history of school in four parts
9          From Village College to Community College - The Sawtry
Experience
10      A mirror image for specialist schools
11      Change in a world of change
12      Deschool, reschool or what?
13      Getting personal
 
CHANGE STUDY 2: Brook Learning Partnership, Bolton, England
 
Section 3: PLAN
14     Five threads of change
15     Understanding community engagement
16     A different approach
17     Finding a balance - the Shotton Hall experience
18     Working with networks
19     Searching for the future
20     Growing listening wrinkles
 
CHANGE STUDY 3: Caroline Springs Community College, Victoria, Australia
 
Section 4: BUILD
21     You can get it if you really want
22      The 3C challenge
23      The first C  - Campus  (The Ethos and Culture thread)
24      The second C - Community (The Building Social Capital thread)
25      The third C - Curriculum (The Promotion of Learning thread)
26      It's all about profound learning
 
CHANGE STUDY 4: The Voyager School, Peterborough, England
 
Section 5: LEAD
27     New world - new leadership
28     Dancing together - Connectivity in practice
29     Emotional power and leadership
30     Empowerment - Understanding and applying loose-tight
31     Students as leaders
32     Thinking afresh about governance
33     Re-thinking the workforce
 
CHANGE STUDY 5: Birchwood Community High School, Warrington, England
 
Section 6: TRANSFORM
34     Measuring Success
35     Seven Key Ingredients In A Regeneration Mix
36     Now What If......? 
 
CHANGE STUDY 6: Banareng Primary School, Atteridgeville, South Africa
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