How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better and Hackney’s journey

1. How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better and Hackney’s journey Tricia Okoruwa Education Director

3. The 3 Dimensions to crafting and implementing and improvement journey Assess current performance level Measure pupil outcomes – decide if current level is poor, fair, good, great or excellent Select interventions: Decide what the system needs to do in order to raise student outcomes – guided by its performance level and specific challenges 3. Adapt to context: Tailor leadership style and tactics to the history, culture, politics, structure of the school system

4. Sustaining the system’s improvement journey over the long term 3 ways have been identified: By establishing collaborative practices By developing the mediating layer between the schools and the centre By architecting tomorrow’s leadership Each aspect is interconnected and an integral part of the system pedagogy

7. Journeys of school improvement: it’s a system thing not a single thing Great to excellent improvement journeys emphasise learning through peers and innovation Good to great improvement journeys emphasise shaping the professional Fair to good improvement journeys emphasise getting the system foundations in place Getting to fair: improving literacy and numeracy [McKinsey and Company]

11. Broad phases of leadership success: the journey of one Primary School [Ten Strong Claims, NCSL] Ofsted 2011 Outstanding Ofsted 2008 Good Ofsted 2007 SM  

15. Getting a handle on theaccountability chain

17. Monitoring – McKinsey journeys