Who we are…
Cornwall Teaching School
Devon Teaching School Partnership
North Devon Teaching School Alliance
Plymouth Teaching School Alliance
Primary Excellence Teaching School Alliance

 About the SW Pilot
 What’s the Role of a LLE
 Are you already a LLE?
 What are the Eligibility Criteria?
 What are the opportunities for LLEs?

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The school-led self-improving education system
National College and DfE are supporting change by 2016, with a shift towards teaching schools through the teaching school council
A system with tiers of system leadership (SLE, LLE, NLE)
Intends to test the concept of devolving LLE delivery to teaching school alliances through 9 two-year pilot projects across England
There are two pilot projects across the south west
To develop a national model for designation and deployment from 2016

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Recruitment
Designation
Association
Training and induction
Commissioning
Deployment
Quality assurance
Evaluation and Reporting

Theme Out of Scope
Recruitment and designation
Association
Training and induction
Designation criteria
De-designation
Mandatory/forced association
In Scope
Forecasting demand
Recruitment models
Designation moderation models
Association models
Induction and training models
Ongoing CPD models

Theme
Commissioning
Out of Scope
Deployment
Quality assurance
In Scope
Commissioning processes and models
Deployment models and protocols
Deployment types
Monitoring and quality assurance models

 Designation – developing robust processes and QA for application, interview, selection and designation
 Training and induction – developing accessible, comprehensive programmes to ensure that LLEs are equipped for high impact school-to-school support
 Access to LLEs – developing central register for LLEs allowing schools to identify suitable LLE partners
 Commissioning and Deployment – developing standardised commissioning and deployment processes across phase for high quality targeted support with measurable outcomes & robust evaluation
 Monitoring and QA – to evaluate the success of the pilot with NCTL

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How can you contribute to the Pilot if you are already designated?
The Pilot will not:
 be re-designating or de-designating existing LLEs
The Pilot will:
 be Learning from experienced LLEs to contribute to the new model
 help to shape the new model for local system leadership
 give access to CPD and training for LLEs
 contribute to training and induction of new LLEs
 introduce LLEs to teaching school alliances across the SW
 give potential for more deployment in future

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To be eligible to be a local leader of education, you must: have at least 3 years of experience as a serving headteacher have an Ofsted rating of good expect to remain at your current school for at least 2 years after being selected have accountability for one or more school(s) that meet the criteria below have the support of your school’s governing body and local authority or a senior educational professional demonstrate that you have sufficient experience providing support as a coach or mentor to another headteacher or senior member of staff at a school other than your own commit to the time expectations

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For you to be considered as a local leader of education, your current school must: have an Ofsted rating of good show consistently high levels of pupil performance or continued improvement over the last 3 years be above current minimum standards set by the government have experienced senior leaders with capacity to work with other schools
If you are applying as a sixth form college, you must be able to show evidence of supporting maintained schools in addition to any support provided to sixth form colleges.

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Notes for independent school applicants
If your school is not inspected by Ofsted, it must be judged as good by the Independent Schools Inspectorate in the areas of: leadership and management quality of pupils’ achievements pupils’ personal development
Alternatively, if the school is inspected by Ofsted, then the school must be judged good for overall effectiveness, capacity to improve and leadership and management or equivalent.
Minimum standards are not applicable to independent schools.
Independent schools will have to show consistently high levels of performance or continued improvement over the last 3 years.

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Client school self-identifying need
Local Authority
Diocese
Ofsted HMI
DfE Academies and Underperformance Group
Teaching School Alliances
NLEs/other system leaders
Governing Bodies
NCTL
Academy Chains

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Client school self-identifies an area of need in their school/academy.
HMI recommends that a school that has recently been given a judgment of RI seeks support.
A local authority identifies that a school has diminished capacity for leadership and support is needed for an Acting
HT.
A national academy chain needs to add leadership capacity in a recently sponsored school.
A newly appointed HT requests a whole school diagnostic to confirm the context of their school.
A Teaching School Alliance has successfully bid for NLE deployment funding of £15K to support three schools.
A remote, rural school requires support and there is no local capacity.

 How can you apply to work within the Pilot?
 Who will you need to contact?
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 teresa.lawrance@devonteachingschool.org
s.brown@swsf.org

Cornwall Teaching School
Jenny Blunden
Devon Teaching School Partnership
Teresa Lawrance
North Devon Teaching School Alliance
Sandy Brown
Plymouth Teaching School Alliance
Pete Nash
Primary Excellence Teaching School Alliance
Rick Baker