7. From On Distributed Communications by Paul Baran, 1964
The Changing Face of Professional Development
From Known Nodes to Wild Networks
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9. Moving to Disciplined Innovation
From My or Your Ideas to Our Ideas
• Create Opportunities for People to Grow
• Give Time, Allow Time
• Enhance Teachers’ Research Skills
• Increase “Stickability” in Knowledge Transfer
• Evaluate, Evaluate, Evaluate
10. Create Opportunities for People to
Grow
• Go outside of the school’s structure
– Build a little Babylon
• Innovation Fellows
• System Redesign TLRs (use TLR 3)
• R&D Communities
• Voluntary INSET
– #OutstandingIn10Plus10
– Leadership Development Programme
• Getting Better Project
11. Give Time
• Innovation Fellows
– One day per week/fortnight additional non-
contact time for two years
• R&D Community Leaders
– One period per fortnight additional non-contact
time
– Cover Vouchers for staff in the community
• All staff
– Two hours weekly CPD/Meeting time
12. Evaluate, Evaluate, Evaluate
• The profession’s Achilles Heel
• To often “Good” or “Best” Practice is because I
say it is
• Evaluation may take different forms
– Different types of evaluation: quantitative &
qualitative are valuable and valid
– No evaluation is not a valid form of evaluation!
• Lesson Study provides as excellent model