Future-proof Your School

Wouldn't it be great if you could equip your school and yourself to face whatever the future might throw at you! Wherever you are in your teaching career, this book provides an effective approach to change management that is simple and sustainable.

David Hughes was a teacher and senior leader within the secondary and tertiary sectors for over 24 years, working in a range of both successful and failing schools. He has led and managed improvement projects at local authority, regional and national levels. Whilst working on the Building Schools for the Future programme, he was seconded for almost two years to support the development of the Opening Minds curriculum, devised in collaboration with the Confederation of British Industry as a twenty-first century learning model for schools, which mirrored the world's most effective educational systems and addressed the attitudes, behaviours and competences required of the modern learner. He is an associate of the University of Nottingham School of Education and a writer for the educational press.

Introduction 1. Culture and school improvement 2. Leadership models of school culture: some disturbing developments 3. Pupils: passive or active participants in your school? 4. Parents 5. The INSET conundrum: training opportunities or continuous professional development? 6. The ICT fixation: promoting sustainable change 7. Culture and Intellectual Property: recognising the talent in your school 8. A holistic view of school development needs 9. The mechanism for sustained change: the learning vortex 10. Gearing up your ICT team as school improvement partners 11. Developing a whole school learning specification for a specific project 12. Providing an evidence base for improvement: current state analysis and training needs analysis 13. Analysing your school and shaping structures for improvement 14. The state of learning: an international perspective