An effective LEA celebrate and spread good practice'

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An effective LEA celebrate and spread good
practice.

• Excellence in Schools (1997)

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LEAs, schools and teachers need to

• Manage their knowledge better
• Create new professional knowledge about teaching
  and learning
• Disseminate knowledge and skills

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Dissemination needs to be done well at different
levels

• School
• LEA
• DfEE, QCA, TTA, GTC

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Common Questions

• How to identify best practice?
• How to kitemark/quality assure it?
• How to make connections?
• How to develop it further?

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LEAs are in a position to

• research
• develop
• broker
• connect
• facilitate
• good practice

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LEAs and schools can work together to

• establish self-evaluation
• use expert practitioners
• develop quality circles
• collect/publish examples of good practice
• develop leadership and management of schools

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LEA Strategies to Promote and Disseminate Good
Practice with Schools

• AN AGREED POLICY
• EDP to contain strategy for sharing good practice
• wide consultation
• a clear LEA policy statement, including

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• partnership and collaborative working which is
  open
• evidence/data to identify good practice
• networks to be used - the hubs and spokes
• links to agencies beyond the LEA - TTA, HE, other
  LEAs
• links within the LEA - EBP, EiC
• Intranet

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• REGISTRAR OF GOOD PRACTICE
• Leading teachers - NLS, NNS
• Curriculum strengths
• SEN good practice
• Early Years strengths
• Leadership and management strengths - SDP, PM,
  etc

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• NETWORKING SPECIALISMS/ STRENGTHS
• Beacon Schools
• Specialist Schools
• Early Excellence Centres
• Spreading the expertise through
• mentoring
• shadowing
• seminars
• INSET provision
• demonstration lessons
• teacher curriculum consultants

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• LEA KITEMARKING OF EXCELLENCE
• Excellence identified through a kitemark activity
  - Early Years, IiP
• Excellence identified in literacy, numeracy
• Excellence identified by Ofsted

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• HEADS/DEPUTIES AS COACHES AND MENTORS
• Mentoring recently appointed heads
• Linking for specific purposes
• Short-term secondments as associate adviser

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• NAME AND ACCLAIM
• Case studies of good practice publications on
  chosen themes
• Research publication - LEA, school, HE link to
  EDP
• Training videos

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• TWINNING SCHOOLS
• Beacon twinning
• Linking the successful with schools causing
  concern
• Twinning equal partners
• Joint INSET days
• Shared working groups - co-ordinator links
• Peer observation

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• BENCHMARKING FAMILY GROUPS
• Schools grouped by indicators - FSM, size, SEN
• Family groups compare/share attainment data and
• Why is it like this what makes the difference?

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• SELF EVALUATION QUALITY FRAMEWORK
• Build on Ofsted self-evaluation training
• A shared language
• School self-review verified by LEA

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• QUALITY CIRCLES
• Newly qualified teachers
• SENCOs
• Deputy Headteachers
• Literacy/Numeracy Co-ordinators
• Early Years Co-ordinators
• Headteachers

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