This document summarizes a meeting of governors at St. Mary's Catholic College in April 2004. It discusses trends affecting schools like increased accountability, declining church attendance, and an extended adolescence. It also outlines scenarios for the future of schooling put forward by the OECD, including extending the market model, de-schooling, and re-schooling schools as social centers or focused learning organizations. The session aims to inform governors of strategic issues, identify additional issues, and find new objectives to consider for the school development plan from 2004-2007.

1. Governors’
Development Planning
Meeting
St. Mary’s Catholic College
April 2004

2. Mission Statement
St. Mary’s Catholic High School is a caring faith community.
Our mission is to provide an outstanding whole-person
education through which all are challenged to grow in
wisdom, understanding, self-esteem and closeness to God.

3. Session’s Objectives
• To inform governors of some of the main
strategic issues affecting the school
• To identify additional strategic issues affecting
the school
• To identify new objectives that can be
considered for inclusion in the SDP 2004-07

4. Megatrends
• Exponential ICT development
• Globalisation
• Social fragmentation (at a micro and macro level)
• Increasing Accountability
• Informed Professional Judgement (post-informed
central prescription)
• Difficulties in recruiting/retaining high calibre
staff
• Declining Church attendance (a lack of belonging
but no less believing?)

5. Schooling for
Tomorrow
OECD Scenarios

6. OECD Trends
• Extended Adolescence
• Increasing time in front-end loaded education
• Entering labour market later
• Delaying family responsibilities
• The Knowledge Economy
• Know what, know why, know how, know who
• Schooling deals in know what

7. OECD Trends
• Inequality and Exclusion
• Reductions in wealth and income inequalities
in 20th Century now reversed
• Impact on young and unskilled
• Link between education outcomes and poverty
• Changing Family & Community Life
• Individualism and social fragmentation
• Decline of the conventional family

8. Future School Scenarios
•Extending the Market Model
•De-schooling
•Re-schooling

9. Extending the Market Model
• Extended Market Model
• Learning bought and sold by a wide variety of
organisations
• Greater privatisation of education
• Specialist Schools & vouchers

10. De-Schooling
• Learning Networks and Network Society
• Dissatisfaction with institutions
• Virtual Schools
• 14-19 Review
• Meltdown Scenario
• Fuelled by Teacher Exodus
• Impact on student learning
• Varies geographically and by subject

11. Re-schooling
• Schools as Core Social (Spiritual) Centres
• Schools seek to counteract effect of social
fragmentation
• Personal, social and community outcomes
• Extended Schools
• (Belonging before believing)
• (Impact on parishes)

12. Re-Schooling
• Schools as Focused Learning Organisations
• Focus on cognitive outcomes
• Linked to knowledge economy
• Focus on quality and equality of opportunity
• Learning Organisations – focus on CPD, R&D
and extensive networking
• Workforce agreement

13. Current and Future Roles for Schooling
• Custody
• Cognitive Development
• Behavioural rules – rules & routines
• Socialisation – values & dispositions
• Screening and Sorting

14. Current Strategic Influences
• 14-19 Curriculum & Qualification Reforms
• Every Child Matters
• Building Schools for the Future
• Deanery/Diocesan Reviews

15. The Session Ahead
• Identify any strategic influences that have been
missed
• Find the GAPS between our vision and the
College Development Plan
• Identify new objectives
• Prioritise new objectives you have identified