This document discusses the importance of moving beyond just being informed in school culture towards taking action. It emphasizes that what matters most is what is done with research, data, experience and feedback. A high quality teaching culture involves teachers using data and feedback to identify areas for improvement, considering research-backed options, testing changes in their own classrooms, and continually evaluating impacts on student learning. School leaders are encouraged to create cultures where teachers have time for innovation, research and evaluation in order to unleash greatness rather than being pulled in the wrong direction by current education policies.

1. Towards a More Informed
School Culture – Eyebrow!
Subtext
The Need to Go Beyond Informed

2. BeingInformedasa
SignpostNotaDestination
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3. BeingInformedasa
SignpostNotaDestination
You Have Information
but What Should You
Do With It?
• Triangulate It?
• Discuss It?
• Explore It?
• Change Practice
Immediately?
• Bin It?
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4. It is what you do
with the research,
experience, data
and feedback that
really matters.
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5. A High Quality Teaching Culture
1. What’s going well and what not so? (Data &
Feedback)
2. Which of these “not so” areas am I interested in
improving? (Teacher Agency)
3. What options should I consider? (Published
Research)
4. Which one might be the best bet? (Experience)
5. Let’s see what happens in my class room (Teacher
Research)
6. How do I know if it’s improving? (Data & Feedback).
Back to No 1
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6. The #5MinAchievementPlan by @LeadingLearner & @TeacherToolkit

7. Formative Lesson Observation
(Quality of Teaching)

10. Leaders Create Cultures
“Ways of Working & Being”
• Develop Wide Perspectives
• Differentiate Signposts & Destinations
• Champions & Mass Participation
• Give Time, Allow Time
• Evaluate, Evaluate, Evaluate
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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
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12. Allow Time
• Most innovations are abandoned before they
ever reach maturity
• Too many innovations/changes at the same
time lead to a lack of improvement
• People get on board at different stages
– Our nature, our interest?
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13. 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
– Quantitative & qualitative are both valuable and
valid
– Discursive Evaluation
– No evaluation is not a valid form of evaluation!
• Lesson Study provides an excellent model
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14. Education’s Cluster F***
Are the Wrong Levers
Being Pulled to
Unleash Greatness?
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15. Cluster Fuck
klʌstə/fʌk
noun
1. A group of actions, events or outcomes occurring
close together, in time or space, which create an
absolute, complete and unholy mess of a situation.
Normally left to someone else to sort out.
Definition
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16. Education’s Cluster F***
• Incomplete & Confused Autonomy
• Accountability Gone Mad
– Ofsted, Mocksteds, Limited Metrics
– Performance Management & Related Pay
– An Option for the Poor Which Lacks Coherence
• Demographic Time Bomb
– Recruitment, Retention & Admissions
• Workload Challenges
• Pointless Data Collection by Teachers & on Teachers
• PD focussed on Competence & Coverage rather
than Excellence & Impact
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17. You’re Going to Have to
Swim Against the Tide …
… but the
Tide always TurnsPhoto Credit:
ErnestKoe via Flickr cc