CfE Leadership Events: Senior Phase
What are we learning about
the change process
Eddie Broadley
Donna McMaster
Assistant Director
Education Scotland
Head Teacher
Inveralmond CHS
Transforming lives through learning
A summary of our offer of fieldwork visits to
secondary schools December through March 2014
 Programme of secondary fieldwork visits planned from
December 2013 through March 2014 based on a random
sample of secondary schools in all Education Authorities
and agreed with Directors of Education in advance
A summary of our offer of fieldwork visits to
secondary schools December through March 2014
 Education Scotland is very keen to learn first-hand from
those who are implementing CfE and the opportunity to
visit secondary schools around the country will help us
keep ES understanding very much up-to-date. This is a
formative process in that it will give the opportunity to
help guide the ES business planning for next year - to
ensure we plan the kind of support that will be most
helpful to schools. And of course, it is one of many
activities that give us insight into the work that is going
on in schools, such as innovative practice visits,
inspections, conversation days etc.
ES is interested in learning about the context for and
how schools have used CfE as an opportunity to
meet their local needs.
The main areas for discussion are as follows:
• Introducing innovative approaches in any
aspect of curriculum, learning, teaching and
assessment
• Progress towards improving the quality of
learning through S1-S6 using CfE
• Progress towards better transitions into S1
and post 16 through CfE
The main areas for discussion are as follows:
• Progress towards getting a better take on the
impact of CfE on outcomes for learners,
through self-evaluation for example
• Progress in implementing the BGE from S1S3, and any particular features of the S3
experience
• Progress in developing the S4-S6 curriculum
• Progress towards building confidence in
education through partnerships with key
stakeholders including parents
• Any particular actions which you feel are
reducing inequity on outcomes for
disadvantaged and vulnerable groups
• The nature of the strategic planning you have in
place and its likely impact on taking forward the
3-18 curriculum
• Additional support from Education Scotland,
SQA?
Issues emerging?
 Need to raise and maintain professional confidence in
NQs and especially in new Highers for 2014-2015 –
need development time to assist schools urgently
 Need for greater clarity around national messages
about the senior phase including best practice in
structuring the curriculum, approaches to wider
achievement within the curriculum, problem solving
around provision of 2 periods of PE, RME in S5/6,
college outreach to the school curriculum especially in
emote and rural areas, etc
Issues emerging?
 National advice in tracking and monitoring
progress in learning in S1-S3
 More clarity and best practice around the
entitlement to Personalisation and Choice
 Assessing progress in significant aspects of
learning in S1-S3 BGE
 Ongoing need to ensure working with parents &
YP in all aspects of developing the curriculum
 Programme of inter school visits for senior
leaders cross schools in Scotland
Issues emerging?
 Request for dedicated named hot line contacts
for subject specialisms available to answer and
respond quickly to staff queries
 National sharing of best practice in aspects of
timetabling CfE in secondary schools
The Change Process
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
The Nature of our Strategic Planning
What is the point of bringing young people
together in a school?
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‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
What it means to us!
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
Embrace Change
 Change is a double edged sword. Its relentless pace
these days runs us off out feet. Yet when things are
unsettled we can find new ways to move ahead and
create breakthroughs not possible in stagnant
societies.’
Michael Fullan. “Leading in a culture of change “
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
A preparation for what?
19th Century Clerk
 Being right
 Copying down
 Listening to teacher
 Accepting what you’re told
 Working alone
 Sitting still
 Remembering facts
 Showing deference
 Following instructions
 Being evaluated
 Job advert
21st Century Explorer
 Being adventurous
 Creating ideas
 Discussing with peers
 Questioning things
 Working with others
 Being active
 Imagining possible solutions
 Showing initiative
 Taking responsibility
 Self-evaluating
 3rd Horizon
Opening up Transformative
Innovation
 The three horizons approach helps in developing a
perspective that both addresses the need for change
and nurtures our vision.
 We need to ‘keep the lights on’ today while finding a
way of keeping them on a generation from now in
very different circumstances.
 Explore the creativity and imagination that change
demands.
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
(twilight)
3 Horizons Game
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
Feedback from staff
“Team spirit and a sense of further success/change is
possible. Planned strategies will build capacity. A clear
vision for ICHS and the feeling of this being done in a
supportive team.”
“Enjoyed a dialogue that moved from the rhetoric of the
day to day delivery of the curriculum and ventured
into the broader ideology”
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
Managing Change
Workload
VS
Impact
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
Task 1
Agree in your group the order in
which the set of 9 cards on your
table should be placed with the
most important job of the
teacher at the top
Arrange in a Diamond 9 shape
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
Task 2
Agree in your group the order in
which the set of 9 cards on your
table should be placed with the
most time consuming job for the
teacher at the top.
Arrange in a Diamond 9 shape
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
What did we conclude?
 Teachers felt they spent a lot of time writing reports
and marking jotters which was frustrating as these
activities/jobs did not have the greatest impact on
young people.
 Our aim was to move to a Horizon in which we are
activating learners as owners of their own learning: a
far more productive life skill that is transferable into
real life contexts.
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
Introducing innovative approaches in any
aspect of curriculum, learning and
teaching and assessment
 Professor Guy Claxton’s Building Learning Power 2013
 Increased understanding of the importance of teaching pupils the attributes of a ‘21st Explorer’ as
opposed to a ‘19th Century Clerk’.
 Authority and Cluster event took place September 2013
 Creativity 3-18 (Case study supported by Education Scotland 2013)
 Case study in Education Creativity 3-18.
 Inspiring learning and Teaching Improvement group
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Moderation Across the Cluster (NAR project 2013/14)
NAR project based on Social Studies and reading outcomes.
CPD and workshops on learning intention and success criteria
Summary across practice in 6 primaries and Secondary brought together in Review of learning
intentions and success criteria in the classroom
 Profiling (NAR project 2013/14)
 Consistent use of the profiling process using the skills for Learning life and work framework.
Introduction of one stop shop with Didbook across Cluster.
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
The power of Self - Evaluation and
Reflection
Opening up learning
through exploring
and using information
and data
Opening up learning
through exploring
and using people’s
views
Improving the
how and what of
learning
Direct observation
Opening up learning
through sharing learning
and teaching in action
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
SWOT Analysis
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
Leadership of CfE
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Establishing vision and culture
Win hearts and minds
Self - evaluation
Lead learners
Professional learning for staff – sharing effective and
innovative practice
 Promote leadership and collaboration
Moved beyond assessing knowledge and understanding
into Skills and attributes and capabilities
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’
Vision into reality
 A vision without action is just a dream
 Action without vision just passes the time
 A vision with action can change the world.
Nelson Mandela
‘We are working together to inspire learners and shape successful futures.’