School Effectiveness Framework
Pilot Programme
An overview of the pilot phase including the National and Regional Context.
Continuing to improve the outcome for learners in Wales remains a key priority for the Welsh Assembly Government. ‘The Learning Country: Vision into Action’ makes clear that we want to build on existing knowledge about what makes effective learning settings so as to develop and improve further our education system. ‘One Wales’, the progressive agenda for the Government of Wales, commits the Assembly Government to giving the children and young people of Wales a first class education and to working with education providers, practitioners and parents to create the best possible schools for the future.
This requires innovative thinking and practice at all levels, national, local authority and school. The School Effectiveness Framework is the vehicle for taking forward these commitments, by aligning policies and their implementation to secure better outcomes.
The Assembly Government invited the South West and Mid Wales Consortium to develop an alternative approach for the pilot of the School Effectiveness Framework for schools.
This was in recognition that for the Framework to be effective it must be owned locally by individual schools and their local authorities; and must build on existing work in schools and local authorities and on current Assembly Government initiatives.
The South West and Mid Wales Consortium welcomed the opportunity to develop an approach that would build upon established consortium working and be effective within the local context.
Events
Presentations from
School Effectiveness Framework: Dissemination Conference
22 October 2009
Achievements
Case Studies
A National Framework For School Effectiveness: A Regional Case Study Of Developing System Leadership In Action 303kb
David Brunton[1], Dr Sue Davies[2], Mike Gibbon[3], Pauline Lewis[4], Karl Napieralla[5] John Radford[6]
Abstract
This article describes the process adopted through collaborative consortium working to pilot the implementation of the School Effectiveness Framework in Wales. The article explores how the continued development of collaborative working across a region of six independent local education authorities impacts on change through development, delivery and monitoring; and subsequently adds value to the work of each institution and local authority, ensuring that the systems developed make effective use of the resources available and maximise impact on standards at pupil, institutional, regional and national levels.
Paper presented at the 23rd International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement 2010 in Kuala Lumpur 5th – 8th January 2010
[1] swamwac programme co-leader, [2] Trinity University College, Carmarthen, [3] Sandfields Comprehensive School, Neath Port Talbot, [4] South West and Mid Wales Consortium, [5] County Borough of Neath Port Talbot, [6] Pontarddulais Comprehensive School, Swansea
Key documents
School Effectiveness Profile (SEP) 401kb
Final Evaluation Report for the School Effectiveness Framework Pilot Programme 563kb
Group Members
| Carmarthenshire | Alan Walters awalters@carmarthenshire.gov.uk |
| Ceredigion | Catherine Woodward catherinew@ceredigion.gov.uk |
| Neath Port-Talbot | Zac Davies z.davies@npt.gov.uk |
| Aled Evans a.evans@neath-porttalbot.gov.uk |
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| Mike Gibbon m.gibbon@npt.gov.uk |
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| Pembrokeshire | Sue Crowley sue.crowley@pembrokeshire.gov.uk |
| Sue Painter head.portfield@pembrokeshire.gov.uk |
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| Nigel Hughes nigel.hughes@pembrokeshire.gov.uk |
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| Powys | John Barker john.barker@powys.gov.uk |
| Swansea | Ian James ian.james@swansea.gov.uk |
| swamwac | Pauline Lewis pauline.lewis@swamwac.org |
| David Brunton david.brunton@swamwac.org |
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