Building Schools for the Future

Over the next academic year we will be working with a school in Sussex as they prepare for their move into a brand new building.  The building will be radically different and the challenge will be to make sure that news ways of working are embedded by the time doors open.

Change in the FE sector

We are working with ten of the countries leading FE colleges on an innovative change programme that will not only provide consultancy at an institutional level but also bring leaders together to address system level issues that can then be shared with others in the sector.

Children’s Trusts

October 2009

We have been engaged by the National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services to deliver a programme in nine Children’s Trusts over the coming six months. It will focus on the challenge of leadership in a multi-agency environment.

Abu Dhabi

September 2009

Pat has developed and delivered the first of three leadership events in Abu Dhabi in partnership with SELT. The programme is a train the trainer programme providing leadership development for front line staff working with school leaders in Abu Dhabi.

Melbourne Workforce reform field trial

7th August 2009

Lynne and Simon have been in Australia for two weeks launching the workforce reform programme in Victoria with training for innovation leaders who then successfully trained school change team leads. Quotes from participants included “This is the best professional development I’ve ever had” “It’s been so good” “The process doesn’t stifle innovation rather it makes it real”

“It’s amazing how the model developed in the UK is so readily applicable to our reform agenda in Victoria” Di Joseph General Manager Innovation and Next Practice Division, DEECD.

“The process has global applicability from macro to micro” John Doherty Innovation and Next Practice Division DEECD

New York City principals

30th July 2009

Pat led a seminar at the Institute of Education entitled  “Creating Tomorrow”. There was a lively debate about the similarities of issues facing New York principals and those of headteachers in schools in challenging areas in the UK. We look forward to continuing the debate with our colleagues in the big apple.

Oslo – Erasmus programme

27th July 2009

Pat led a session on leadership and change on an Erasmus programme the focus of which was the 21st century school.  Seventy participants from countries as far apart as Spain, Ireland, Turkey, Norway and England took part. The work of the groups will form the basis of a paper on “International Perspectives on the challenge of change”. There will be a summary in our next newsletter and a full report will follow.

Future Change Makers

23rd June

Dame Pat ran a highly successful workshop for 'Future Change Makers' in Hampshire. It focused on building networks and coalitions in order to deliver the Extended Schools agenda.

Launch of field trials in Victoria, Australia

9th June 2009

Lynne flies out to Melbourne for the launch of the 'next practice' field trials which will run until the end of the year and involve 35 schools. They are designed to investigate innovative and sustainable models of workforce organisation which increase capacity to improve student outcomes.

Measuring impact and monitoring progress

26th May 2009

Simon has been working with clients to develop a simple yet powerful way of measuring the impact of change initiatives at a system, organisation and project level. The model also allows the sponsor to monitor progress towards goals. Click here to download "The impact of change in the public sector". Your comments on it would be welcomed.

Building teams and managing change – Cambridge

1st May 2009

Dame Pat spoke to FE principals at the 'Creating a College Fit for Tomorrow' conference in Cambridge about the power of teams in bringing about change.

One Children’s Workforce – developing a strategy for a local authority – April 2009

Creating Tomorrow is working with multi-agency teams in an inner London local Authority helping them to develop a strategy for an integrated One Children's Workforce

Remodelling in Australia

Following Pat’s very successful visit to Australia in March we are we look forward to working with the Victoria State Government on the design of a remodelling pilot.

National Professional Qualification of Headship (NPQH)

April 2009

Dame Pat continues to work in a consultancy capacity on the NPQH programme. This is the National College for School Leadership's flagship provision for aspiring head teachers. It is mandatory to hold or have a place on NPQH in order to apply for a first headship in the maintained sector and from April 2009 all first-time head teachers must be NPQH graduates.

Remodelling schools, colleges and universities

We are planning change programmes with a number of schools and colleges in the south and east of England, each of which has it’s own unique focus. In one college we started the change programme with a one-day workshop at which the senior leadership team worked on their vision and values and their own performance as a team. In another project the focus is on changing teaching and learning styles to maximise the benefits to pupils from the building of a new school.

Leading from the Middle

Lynne has been asked to design the training for facilitators of NCSL's Middle Leadership programme.

Dame Pat Collarbone gives key-note speech at UNESCO conference in Thailand.
24th March 2009
The theme of this four day conference, ‘Quality Innovations for Teaching and Learning’, highlights the importance of teacher education and provides a forum for policy makers, educators, teachers, academicians and researchers to discuss, exchange information and learn from each other on how to teach and learn - in a more innovative way - with heads, hearts and hands to ensure a sustainable future.

21st century educated workforce - Victoria, Australia
18th March 2009
Dame Pat Collarbone gave a lecture on the 21st century educated workforce at the Centre for Strategic Education, Melbourne. She went on to deliver a further four key-note speeches on workforce modernisation during her trip to Australia.

The launch of Creating Tomorrow the book and the company
10th February 2009
The CTL team hosted a very successful launch of the business at One Alfred Place the former home of the National Remodelling Team. Sir Michael Barber spoke to the sixty invited guests about the need for workforce modernisation in the public sector in countries around the world. He noted that there is little written about 'how' to do this and that Pat's book has made a major contribution to the literature in this key area of system change.