This session began with an input from Baroness Estelle Morris who presented a recipe for schools to achieve long term success. She reflected on how success can be realised through focusing on learning, meeting the needs of students and making the most of teachers through informed professionalism, engaging with pedagogy and effective collaboration. The session progressed to interviews, firstly with Primary School Head Carl Jarvis who took his school from Special Measures to Outstanding in two years with the same staff and the same students through a radical approach to learning that really engaged his students. We explored with Carl what gave him the courage and determination to embark on this extraordinary journey. The second interview took place with Deputy Head Chris Holmwood - who leads his teaching school alliance - and two of his students. In this case study the school was already Outstanding but had a grade 2 for teaching and learning. Instead of just chasing the Ofsted criteria they decided to “lift the lid” and do something quite different. Again the interview explored what they did, why they did it and what made it successful in both conventional and other ways. In the final part of the interview we explored and reflected on the lessons learnt from from their experiences, and how we can each have the confidence to pursue a similar approach, leading to long term sustainable success. Wendy Berliner of the Guardian also joined us and reflected on what she has heard.

1. London
Regional
Conference
Journeys to
Outstanding
1 Drummond Gate
6th March 2013

2. School led system leadership”
WELCOME
John Dunford
Chair of Whole
Education

3. School led system leadership”
JOURNEYS
TO
OUTSTANDING
Introduction
David Crossley
Whole Education

4. The Opportunity
To seize the agenda, ensure and
enable a greater degree of
informed professionalism to
drive the next stage in school
improvement

5. The Challenge
A transformation of schooling that is self-
generating and sustainable requires that
attention be paid to the deep cultural
capital that underpins the life of individual
schools, of partnerships and alliances, and
of the school system as a whole.
David Hargreaves 2012

6. What can
we learn to
guide us?

7. School led system leadership”
OPENING
ADDRESS
Estelle Morris

8. School led system leadership”
Journeys To
Outstanding
Carl Jarvis
Hartsholme Primary
Academy, Lincoln;
Chris Holmwood
Shenley Brook End
School, Milton
Keynes.

9. Hartsholme Academy
The Short Story
Carl Jarvis @carljarvis_eos

10. One of the Worst Performing
Schools in the Country
High Levels of
Deprivation
Special Measures
Twice
It's Time To
Close
A True Sink
School
Only
2009

15. But first, a bit of history: to keep the
world's military-industrial machine
running at the zenith of the British
Empire, Victorians assembled an
education system to mass-produce
workers with identical skills.
Like most things designed by the
Victorians, it was a robust system.
It worked. Schools, in a sense,
manufactured generations of
workers for an industrial age.

18. Delivery
Reverse To The
Short Term
Learning Children
Planning
Medium
Term
Planning
Understand
How The
Children
Long Term
Tick
Planning
Design The
Curriculum Pedagogy
For The
Design The Children's
Project preferred
Design The Learning
Content
Environments
Delivery And
And
To The Project
Learning
Children Tune
Opportunities

19. Mobile Technology
Learning Journey Flipped Learning
Reverse Learning
Immersive Learning
Challenge Based Learning

21. One of the Best
Performing Schools Outstanding Within
in the Country 2 Years
Researching
Pedagogy
Teaching
School
Working With
World Wide
Partners
2012

22. School led system leadership”
Reflections
Carl Jarvis and Jon Chapman

23. Leadership and Training Centre
Shenley Brook End School
www.ltc.sbeschool.org.uk
@LTCSBE

27. Senior Leadership
Autocratic Democratic
Done to people Done by people
Compliance Commitment
Teaching Learning
Direction Reflection
Feedback Dialogue
Line management Leadership coaching
Creates Develops
dependency capacity

28. School led system leadership”
Reflections
Chris Holmwood and Post 16
Student Joe Thompson

29. School led system leadership”
Wider Issues and
lessons for all
schools