School Improvement Partnership
Sharing ideas to create more opportunities for improvement.
School partnership became a major drive to facilitate greater professional dialogue and networking across professionals involved in the partnerships. Sharing ideas and practices relevant to the common challenges and collaborative working across the partnership are proved to create more opportunities for improvement.
Establishing
partnerships
Creating collaborative
networks
Developing partnerships
Research
and inquiry
Collecting evaluative evidence
Sharing progress
Merge Plus can help in:
- Establishing partnerships involving different local authorities, schools and other stakeholders.
- Identifying the optimum type and structure of the partnership.
- Deciding how the leadership and governance of the partnership are structured.
- Establishing explicit links to strategic improvement planning in schools and local authorities.
- Developing partnerships strategies and activities.
- Establishing school-to-school collaborative networks.
- Supporting learning and teaching approaches to integrate research and inquiry to assess progress and inform developments.
- Developing a professional learning community.
- Sharing progress made and best practices across the partners.
- Collecting evaluative evidence for future developments.
- Identifying key challenges and creating innovative solutions and practices.
Partnership work across schools and local authorities with a focus on exploring specific issues relating to educational inequity:
- The use of action research and evidence to identify key challenges, experiment with innovative practices and monitor developments.
- The creation of leadership opportunities and professional learning of staff at all levels.
- A commitment to reciprocity and mutual benefit for all involved.
- The development of arrangements to support long-term collaboration and new approaches to capacity building.
- Explicit links to strategic improvement planning in schools and local authorities.