"Thinking the unthinkable" - Creating a radical agenda for the future of education
1st July 2010
What would happen if the fundamental assumptions underpinning the provision of education in this country were scrutinised and challenged in depth? Dame Pat Collarbone and Professor John West-Burnham will lead this workshop and they will seek to ‘ask the unaskable’ and ‘speak the unspeakable’. The day will focus on developing alternative scenarios for very different educational futures.
Abu Dhabi
30th June 2010
Pat gave a key note speech "The global imperative for Educational Change and New Leadership" which covered the global context for educational reform and change with examples of what various countries are doing. She linked this to the need for a new leadership paradigm in education. She followed this by facilitating an intercative workshop "Principals, strategies and techniques for leading and managing in a culture of change".
28th to 19th June 2010
Pat worked with a group of Nord Anglia Education 'Aspiring Leaders'. This group comprise Advisory Teachers who work with local teachers in local schools managed by Nord Anglia plus a small number of curriculum subject leaders. They explored and examined school self evaluation, school improvement planning and leadership styles.
Buckinghamshire Academy for School Leadership (BASL)
25th June 2010
BASL is a locally devised collaborative leadership development programme for all senior school leaders in the County.
The aim of BASL is to raise the quality of school leadership in the County through a collaborative leadership learning community
Creating Tomorrow ran a days workshop exploring 'learning in 2020' and the challenges for school leaders.
Hampshire - Aspiring Heads
22nd June 2010
A workshop for aspiring heads which focused on Success for All and the challenge this poses for leaders.
Thank you from West Sussex Secondary Heads
18th June 2010
"Thank you so much for an excellent and thought provoking session on Friday for the West Sussex Secondary Heads. You gave us all much to think about in these times of challenge and rapid change and reiterated some very important messages .The Heads enjoyed the interactive nature of the session and the opportunity to reflect and discuss some of the key issues you raised".
Cumbria
17th June 2010
Pat starts the conference season with an speaking engagement in Cumbria.
Accelerate to Headship
May 2010
We have collaborated with Lightbox Education the educational software and ICT solution specialist to develop a 'serious on-line game' as part of the National College's Accelerate to Headship programme.This immersive learning experience requires players to think and act like a headteacher.The events and dilemmas they face are all based on real and tough challenges headteachers can face in secondary, primary and special schools.
Change in the FE sector
March 2010
Over the past six months we have been 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. Click here to read the report produced by LSIS as part of the World Class Skills agenda.
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.
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.
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.
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
