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Valerie Hannon Director, DfES Innovation Unit, England AERA Montreal 2005

Network-based Reform: challenges facing the English education system. Valerie Hannon Director, DfES Innovation Unit, England AERA Montreal 2005. The story so far… Evolution of the reform design: reacting to the data – and the interaction with politics

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Valerie Hannon Director, DfES Innovation Unit, England AERA Montreal 2005

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  1. Network-based Reform: challenges facing the English education system Valerie Hannon Director, DfES Innovation Unit, England AERA Montreal 2005

  2. The story so far… • Evolution of the reform design: reacting to the data – and the interaction with politics • ‘Scaling up’: network expansion in an ambivalent climate

  3. Source: Department for Education and Skills

  4. Source: Department for Education and Skills

  5. 560 High Quality High Equity High Quality Low Equity New Zealand Finland 540 Australia Canada Ireland Korea United Kingdom 520 Japan Austria Sweden Belgium Iceland United States France Norway 500 Denmark Spain Czech Republic Switzerland Italy Germany 480 Hungary Poland Greece Mean Performance in Reading Literacy Portugal 460 r = 0.20 Luxembourg 440 Low Quality Low Equity Low Quality High Equity Mexico 420 0 5 10 15 20 25 -25 -20 -15 -10 -5 Social Equity Source: OECD (2001)

  6. 1st phase of reform David Hopkins, 2005

  7. Collaboration and capacity The performance management framework Market forces Leadership CPD Networks Clusters Federations Centres of Excellence Solving local problems Links to other services Networked learning communities Parental choice Pupil-led formula funding Open enrolment Greater transparency Market entry and exit (closure of poor schools) Opening up supply and demand Specialist schools City Academies Michael Barber, 2005

  8. The network landscape Excellence in Cities Specialist Schools Leadership Incentive Grant Collegiates Networked Learning Communities School-to-school network programmes Leading Edge Partnerships Under-performance collaboratives Federations

  9. Secondary school participation in network programmes

  10. Accelerating improvement and stimulating innovation Enhancing the curriculum offer to learners Creating new units of service delivery Networks by purpose Networks may begin with one objective and grow to involve others Funded programmes – LEPP, NLCs, SST, EiC etc – may have networks inhabiting a range of the spaces/ intersections above

  11. 9000 schools £17k per network 1100 schools £60k per network Total budget £26m Annual budget £12.5m 1500 networks 205 partnerships Scaling up… In September 2005 Primary Strategy Learning Networks Leading Edge Partnerships (secondary)

  12. The contribution of the research community? – we really need: • Good evidence, intelligently interpreted, on the impact on student outcomes of collaborative practice • A confident understanding of the necessary and sufficient conditions for that effective collaborative practice • And we need it in real time

  13. Contact Us Website: www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/innovation-unit Phone: +44 20 792 56165 Address: DfESInnovation Unit 4T Sanctuary Buildings Great Smith Street Westminster London SW1P 3BT E-mail: Valerie.hannon@dfes.gsi.gov.uk

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