Education and Children’s Services
School Improvement Partnership Programme
Fife & City of Glasgow
School Improvement
Engaging with the influences of
Learning
Education and Children’s Services
School Improvement Partnership Programme
Fife & City of Glasgow
Using the concept of thinking big but
starting small the aim for each LIG is to:
Raise attainment by ensuring a child
centred approach
 The targeted strategy change by
September 2014 will be identified by
each school within the LIGs & will involve
a small group of children.
Education and Children’s Services
School Improvement Partnership Programme
Fife & City of Glasgow
Fife Story
Formation of Two LIGs – 32 schools – nursery, primary & secondary
Selected 4 clusters from areas of high levels of deprivation – SIMD – 1 – 3
closing the gap
Learners resilience, ambition & aspiration
Attainment/achievement – the focus on various key strategies has not
resulted in the step change we require to ‘close the gap’
The need to think differently & do something different to make a difference
Two LIGs linking with our achieving pathfinder project schools – partnership
of support & challenge
Links with Glasgow as our critical friend – sharing good practice to influence
change
Education and Children’s Services
School Improvement Partnership Programme
Fife & City of Glasgow
Fife Year of Learning
Building relationships & trust between clusters & schools – forming the
LIG vision, values & aims - focus on outcomes
Participation in leadership retreats linked to Drummond International–
PLCs and professional enquiry
QI learning rounds –VSE between schools focused on what they
needed to improve – pace, challenge & differentiation
Inspire to aspire – Alistair Smith – High performing schools
Expert leaders, learners & teachers
Invest in social capital & encourage
curiosity
Unleash creativity
Develop an enduring mindset
Build your brand, maintain a positive
culture
Education and Children’s Services
School Improvement Partnership Programme
Fife & City of Glasgow
Fife Year of Learning
Leadership visits to schools in Glasgow & Edinburgh – linking
schools across authorities
Professional reading within the LIGs – Social capital, mind sets.
Training involving pathfinder & LIG schools – June & September –
collaborative test of change model – to support the LIG on focusing
on their key question for improvement – child centred
Planning continued involvement in school improvement of Alistair
Smith – working with headteacher’s and in the classroom
Reciprocal visits with GCC – focusing on the critical friend
approach/sharing practice
Schools in Fife participating in GCC QI rounds
Building headteacher’s capacity for improvement – 3 step change
model
Ensuring self-evaluation leads to self awareness & self improvement
Education and Children’s Services
School Improvement Partnership Programme
Fife & City of Glasgow
Focused Area of Improvement
Step model for high performing schools – programme with Alistair
Smith
Think big but start small and measure the process of improvement
– allowing for the ‘how and why’ process to be recorded & shared
Continued emphasis on professional learning through enquiry
supporting teacher development
Differentiated support from pathfinders, schools & officers
Self-evaluation, self management, self awareness leading to self
improvement
LIGs will determine their focus for improvement
Education and Children’s Services
School Improvement Partnership Programme
Fife & of Glasgow City
Impact to date
Schools have been inspired to re-focus on their core purpose of
planning, delivering, evaluating and improving high quality learning
experiences – engaging with the influences on learning
Creativity is emerging from exploration
Changing the conversation – satisfactory schools talk about coping,
good schools talk about L&T, great schools talk about learning and world
class schools talk about re-inventing – from shared observations asking
all key players we are seeing shoots of the conversation changing
All LIG schools involved in professional enquiry with partner heads
leading to improvements in leadership
Raising the bar with collaboration to our pathfinder schools
Education and Children’s Services
School Improvement Partnership Programme
Fife & of Glasgow City
Measuring our progress
Following training in June and September for all LIG schools
using the 3 step model – aim big – start small. Each school will
determine their key area for improvement through a child centred
approach
The focus can be on a small focused number (3,8,10) then
spreading out to others
Involvement of Glasgow University to support the measurement
of the improvements to include the ‘how & why’
Support & challenge with pathfinder schools who have the 4
influences of learning