This insight day has been designed to give colleagues confidence and solutions to lead, review, assure quality, coach and move your school forward.

It will provide an opportunity to explore, discuss and address the main learning issues in schools.

Insight Focus:

• Leadership and learning--new views and ideas
  
• Leadership and school improvement
  
• Quality assurance and core roles
  
• Leading the classroom and leading the school--principles into practice
  
• School self review and its focus
  
• Guidance systems which focus on learning
  
• Learning to learn programmes and their success
  
• Leading coherent curriculum pathways
  

The course will provide practical solutions to school self review, quality assurance, leadership roles, and reviewing the progress of students. In addition, guidance systems, curriculum models and core roles will be explored which attempt to meet the needs of the student and help raise their skills, aspirations and talents by genuinely looking at learning. Students skills for learning will be promoted through learning how to learn to balance all the unnecessary focus on data. Strategies of leading the school will be balanced by strategies of leading the classroom.

It will be of interest to:

• staff who want to move their school away from the narrow focus on attainment, targets and data to one which genuinely focuses on coherence, learning, teamwork, professional characteristics, values and principles.
  

• Provide an overview of recent 'leading edge' developments
  
• Explore the core roles and responsibilities of leadership staff to focus more on outcomes and learning
  
• Provide systems at classroom and school level which move from 'control' to 'learning'
  
• Explore models for self review at school, departmental and classroom level
  
• Emphasise the importance and need for schools to take control of their internal review in the light of OFSTED developments
  
• Explore coherent curriculum models and pathways pre and post 14
  
• Look at the place for learning how to learn in the curriculum
  
• Highlight evidence from case studies of what is working to raise attainment and improve students' learning habits
  
• Explain the importance of assessment for learning
  
• Emphasise the importance of focusing on learning 'habits' in student

10.00 A new and changing context

• Setting the context on where to put your focus - data rich or information rich?
  
• Leadership and learning or management and planning - where is your focus?
  
  

• The key features and process of self review explained
  
• Performance management, school self review and curriculum monitoring--bringing coherence to your systems
  

• Establishing new leadership roles to support the changing curriculum
  
• Describing standards, reviewing learning and building coherence
  
• Leading the classroom and leading the school - principles and practice explored
  

• tracking and guidance systems that focus on achievement and learning
  
• individual student reviews and their use in developing learning habits
  
  

• interactive teaching to improve learning
  
• using assessment for learning as a tool
  
• Lead teachers and how they move schools forward
  

• planning the curriculum to increase individuality and develop skills
  
• creating space to allow students to pursue their talents and aspirations
  
• the place of learning to learn programmes in the curriculum
  

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