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- 2. 600 more schools using FrogLearn this year 1000 more schools with I Am Learning 12.5% Frog family of schools has grown by
- 9. What if there was a system that … Helped define what good is Give transparency and what to do next Teach every child as if they were the only child they were teaching Allowed you to set a bar, to define what good is, and that created conversations within and between schools Gave total transparency to the children and their parents on their strengths and weaknesses and what’s more showed them what to do next to deal with those weaknesses Empowered teachers with enough information to really teach every child as if they were the only child they were teaching A system that …
- 10. Schools and Academy schools we are united in our goal to better the life chances of our young people by giving them access to a better quality education.
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Editor's Notes
- Holding slide CLICK
- WELCOME to Frog 15 ! This is again, the most we’ve ever had at a Frog conference, -and more and more it’s senior leaders that are coming along -Thank you for taking the time – I know how much pressure you’re under at the moment CLICK 600 more schools have decided on frog learn this year CLICK grown school user base in UK by 12.5% this year CLICK not including full acquisition of IAL, which brings another 1,000 schools to Frog I’m not telling you for my ego, it’s reassurance you picked the right horse More schools we work with the more we learn CLICK
- We also have some new friends of frog CLICK National theatre CLICK Connected CLICK Frog nordic
- Frog nordic
- Last year I mentioned that Frog were interested in getting a better understanding of the data available within our schools. I told you the story of Tesco’s loyalty card. Tesco noticed that it was men that were buying nappies, so they put the Beer CLICK by the Nappies – beer sales went up For their objective of “selling us more shit” this is a good thing Personal details on the loyalty card registration Tracking sales at the till Our equivalent of sales at the till? Progress & Attainment But we only have NA levels, meaningless nonsense numbers CLICK
- Equivalent of Tesco only tracking how much you spent Without knowing what you bought CLICK In our case 2B ! Doesn’t give kids or parents any idea of: How they are getting on Where they need help Or where to go to get that help Doesn’t tell us anything meaningful There just for reporting, nothing to do with children or their education CLICK
- What next? A lot of schools= Recreate NA levels? CLICK Mapping 1abc to 1eds and change name to In Year Expectations? CLICK Did we scrap to replace with effectively the same? Like Tesco switching from £ to $, no better detail CLICK
- Let’s go back to Tesco Tesco can get these insights because of technology It’s technology that makes this practical – bar codes and clever tills CLICK [reveal prices] So what if we wipe the slate clean and dare to ask the question, “what can we do in education now that we couldn’t do 30 years ago?” CLICK
- So if valuable for Tesco to see what people have bought Not also valuable for us to see: How children are getting on with all their learning objectives? Useful for children and their mum and dad to be able to see this level of detail, too? CLICK What if there was a system that… Allowed you to set a bar, to define what good is, and that created conversations within and between schools about what good looks like CLICK Gave total transparency to the children and their parents on their strengths and weaknesses and what’s more showed them what to do next to deal with those weaknesses CLICK teach every child as if they were the only child they were teaching CLICK Well now there is CLICK
- The more time we’ve spent working on this - the more we’ve come to realise that this is a big moment not just for Frog, but for UK education. And the more come to realise that this is inevitable – WHEN not IF Different world today than even 10 years ago Can do things now we couldn’t back then Better information better decisions more transparency more control a richer understanding about what we do every day It’s going to happen whether we like it or not. The only question is WHEN. So what are the challenges? What’s stopping us? CLICK
- Is it ofsted? What do we think ofsted would prefer to see? School focusing on children Systems to allow lead their own learning That involve parents and Provide transparency Or used same system as last 30 years and changed the words a bit? Which one is going to inspire confidence in them that the leadership is strong and focused on the right things? We have some evidence of this - At one of our Life After Levels events we heard a school tell us that they’d started using the NAHT assessment model and that Ofsted were very happy to see what they were doing. This school had a few issues as they tried to adapt to a new way of working, but to their surprise Ofsted were very encouraging.
- “So we can see the benefit in greater transparency, but who’s going to put all this information in?” This is where we’ve been spending most of our time: Mobile Apps Partner integrations Automate evidence and judgments You’ll see that later on Can’t remove everything, but over time we can remove vast majority This is where the magic is starting to happen, this is what we couldn’t do 30 years ago CLICK
- Or is it us? Been this way for 30 years Up to 55 know nothing else (not much older than me) What if I mess it up? What will Ofsted say? What about everyone else at school? Safer to stick to what I know. Before the election I heard a teacher say they were expecting labour to get back in and that they’ll put levels back in place, so they were ignoring this whole “nonsense”. That didn’t happen. Levels are gone. CLICK
- So. Are we gonna reinvent levels, but give them a different name, keep our heads down and hope that somehow this all goes away? Are we going to focus on what we THINK ofsted want and run our education system by second guessing them CLICK or are we going to take the opportunity given to us to reinvent the way we work with our children? are we going to focus on the kids, focus on teaching and learning and trust that ofsted will congratulate us for it? What say we take control and do the right thing, take back ownership of the teaching profession? CLICK
- When a doctor gives a diagnosis, no-one checks up on her, they trust her CLICK When a lawyer gives a course of action no-one checks up on him, they trust him. CLICK But When a teacher gives a judgment on a child’s education, CLICK some folks in suits turn up to check whether they agree or not. CLICK Is that right?
- [AS PER FINAL IMAGE EARLIER] I’m not saying we don’t need Ofsted, but I am saying wouldn’t it be great if the only thing they could challenge you on is where you’ve set the bar for what “good” looks like? Now I know not everyone is going to agree with me But there are enough of you – wanting to step into a new world To focus on the children, you in driving seat, not Ofsted One teacher told me that it reminded them of why they joined teaching profession – to help children be what they can be To those of you taking the first steps, those of you who are able to see this change as an opportunity rather than a threat, you should be proud of yourselves. CLICK
- Apple did a very famous advert with Ridley Scott in the 80’s that was aired only once during the Super Bowl. I think it sums up the opportunity we all have in front of us today. ----------------------------------------------------- SHOW 1984 advert
- This is our 1984. This is your 1984. This is the most exciting opportunity that we’ve - had in education in the UK for a generation. Not going to be easy I do understand the massive pressures you’re all under at the moment Might be next year before you go for it – can’t all do straight away Start learning, understanding, planning Okay to watch other first, you don’t HAVE to be first Whether you choose to work with Frog on this or not, please, please let’s not just carry on the way we were, changing the numbers on a meaningless scale and hoping it’ll all go away That would be cheating our children out of a better education, and they deserve more than that. Thank you
- Dramatic music with a massive, awesome, holding slide that animates from ‘Frog 15’ to ‘Frog is 15’ - dark stage Then have the 15 schools who have won Progress zooming in one by one on the slides Music fades, spotlight appears – Meg is centre stage Moving and high impact monologue that serves to remind people why we do what we do and the impact that children think technology will have on the world . Title of the monologue to be ‘In 15 years I will’ Gareth enters stage – thanks Meg for reminding us all that education is all about serving the hopes, dreams and aspirations of each, individual child and also remarks how when we recently surveyed students right across the UK, it amazed him how many believe technology will solve real world problems such as famine and disease. Then thanks everyone for coming and introduces the rest of the ‘stars of the day’…(so we don’t lose the audience before the end) Then cuts straight into motivational montage of photo/video booth