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Kent and Medway Teaching Schools’ Network Current Chair: Paul Danielsen Membership: Alliance Ashford Teaching Alliance Shepway Schools’ Teaching Alliance Swale Teaching School Alliance Brook Alliance East Kent Learning Alliance New Horizons Medway Teaching School Alliance The Dartford Area Schools' Consortium Kaizen Teaching School Alliance Early Foundations Teaching Schools Alliance Mid Kent Learning Alliance Teaching School Alliance West Kent and East Sussex Thames Teaching Alliance Canterbury Alliance Lead School/s Highworth Grammar School Lady Joanna Thornhill Primary Sandgate Primary St Eanswythe’s Primary Fulston Manor Hayesbrook Danecourt Rochester Grammar Joseph Williams Maths School Dartford schools Headteacher/s Paul Danielsen Kevin Grout Weald of Kent Northfleet Nursey Maureen Johnson Pannar Nagar Allington Primary Claremont Primary Patrick Hannaway Richard Sutton Smith Martin Clinton Pam Jones Jane Robinson Meopham Primary Ifield Special School Simon Langton Girls Helen Tait Jane Garrett Alan Brookes Debbie Coslett Paul Luxmore Gwynn Bassan Gary Holden Maggie Bolton Structure: There are two groups working within the KMTSN. A strategic group attended by headteachers of the lead schools and an operational group led by the directors of each of the teaching alliances. Occasionally sub groups are formed to work on particular projects such as the LLE pilot. KMTSN Website The launch of the KMTSN website is imminent and will be available on www.kmtsn.co.uk. This will provide a central portal that links directly to all the Kent and Medway teaching school alliances. It is designed to provide an easy link for schools to find out what support, research or training is happening in their local areas. Maths Hub KMTSN collaboration was successful in gaining a Maths hub for Kent and Medway. The Sir Joseph Williamson Mathematical School will act as the lead school for a very exciting opportunity to develop the quality of maths provision, professional development, research and support in the area. The hub will implement national projects to stimulate improvement and innovation in maths education. This will complement the school improvement led by teaching school alliances. Middle Leadership Training The majority of alliances provide Middle Leadership courses such as the NPQML or indeed bespoke training dedicated to the needs of the school. In one alliance 85 teachers have been trained for NPQML (or equivalent) and 26 are currently being trained. This alliance has also trained 58 middle leaders in bespoke training at the request of 3 secondary schools. There are no totals currently available for KMTSN partners but it would be reasonable to assume similar activity across the alliances. LLSE have trained 305 teachers in NPQML. Senior Leadership Training The NPQSL and NPQH courses are available across alliances depending on demand. One alliance has trained or is currently training 38 senior leaders. LLSE have trained 291 teachers in NPQSL and 117 in NPQH. Local Leader of Education (LLE) Pilot The KMTSN Alliances are 1 of 20 national pilots to explore local solutions to the recruitment, designation and deployment of LLEs. The group agreed to focus this work in the 2 different contexts of North West Kent and Medway. The project aims to recruit new LLEs in these areas in January 2015 and then to provide locally-tailored training, induction and support for deployment. It is important to tie this work closely with the KLE initiative, offering opportunities for eligible Headteachers to gain the national LLE designation and enabling the KLE designation to offer a pathway towards LLE designation. Talent and Succession Planning Pilot This pilot focused on the Talent Management Pathways trying to develop structured and systematic talent management and succession planning. This is in response to the current national problem of finding and developing future leaders. Aims: Provide opportunities other than, but complimentary to the NCTL suite of Leadership programmes Identify Aspiring Middle Leaders and Aspiring Senior Leaders Provide opportunities to experience different models of leadership Test the validity of pre and interim NCTL programmes Test the validity of a shorter (6 weeks) leadership development programme Develop the model of leaders as coaches In total there were 17 participants coming from 14 schools in the pilot. 13 schools were used for internship and 16 leaders were trained in coaching. School to School Support Teaching alliances have the opportunity to bid for funding to support RI schools where capacity allows. In the last round which closed in November, 44 maintained schools and 13 academies were identified for support and money has been bid for. Specialist Leaders of Education (SLE) Teaching Alliances are responsible for the recruitment, commissioning and deployment of SLEs. All Teaching Schools operate a shared recruitment process to ensure standards are benchmarked. In total there are 176 available to support local schools. On November 18th there was a conference organised to bring together all the SLEs, to provide training, sharing good practice and networking opportunities. School Direct All Teaching School Alliances lead School Direct partnerships through which trainee teachers are trained in schools. This presents an opportunity for Teaching Schools to provide pathways for the development of new teachers, through NQT, NQT+1 and into middle leadership pathways. In Kent and Medway School Direct partnerships have been allocated 664 places for training in 2015-16. Feedback from a current trainee: ‘School Direct teacher training has been an overwhelmingly positive experience for me so far. The school-based nature of the programme means that I feel very much part of the school and am constantly learning from the practice of my colleagues. As my teaching timetable increases, I am growing in confidence and building up skills in a step-by-step manner. I am well supported by my mentors, who are keen to provide as many training opportunities for me as possible. These are complemented by training days run by Canterbury Christ Church University and the Teaching Alliance, which have been extremely useful for both their content and the opportunity they have afforded me to share experiences with other School Direct trainees.’ Leadership Training for future leaders The funding for courses such as the MK+, Leading to Headship and into Senior Leadership have been severely cut back. This year a small amount of funding (20k) is being targeted at leaders ready for headship in primary, small, rural, special or coastal contexts. Only 10 places are available and the Kaizen Teaching Alliance is leading on this initiative. KMTSN is hosting a workshop on 12th December. The aim is to enable schools to work together to consider priorities for leadership development, to identify priority actions to be taken forward by schools and to begin to consider how schools might work together to increasingly lead on the commissioning and provision of school-led leadership development. KMTSN would like to invite KAH Chairs to the session. This session has been planned in conjunction with MK+ and LLSE. Teaching School Council Dr Gary Holden provides an important link between KMTSN and the Teaching School Council which is attempting to drive the school led system of improvement. Teaching Leaders – Johan Jensen At the request of Pam Jones the KMTSN strategic group met with Johan Jensen representing Teaching Leaders an educational charity, heavily subsidised by the government, to address educational disadvantage by growing a movement of outstanding middle leaders from schools working in challenging contexts. Currently there are over 200 schools in Kent and Medway that would be eligible for this high quality training. There is a strong focus on accelerating pupil progress, raising achievement and reducing the tail of underachievement. There is a cost to the school and it is a two year programme for exceptional middle leaders. There were a number of headteachers who were or had used this programme and were highly complementary of the impact it had made. Johan can be contacted via: [email protected]