KS4 Families of Schools Launch

1. KS4 Families of Schools Launch Thursday 8th February 2018

2. Tracy Ruddle Director of Continuous School Improvement, BEP

4. By the end of the session You will understand the different ways Families of Schools 2017 can be used to support your School Improvement You will have had chance to network as a family and agree possible shared school improvement activities

5. Professor David Woods CBE Chair of the School Improvement Advisory Board

6. Families of Schools “Backing our school improvement strategy, was the use of a statistical device we had promoted in Birmingham. Schools were put into ‘families’ according to the socio-economic background and prior attainment of their pupils – this in the hands of creative leaders and teachers hungry for improvement, proved to be an invaluable aid”. Professor Tim Brighouse, ‘The Story of the London Challenge’

7. Families of Schools “School-to-school support in London was underpinned by one of London Challenge’s most elegant and least celebrated achievements: the generation of detailed performance and contextual data for families of schools which were published annually”. Professor Chris Husbands, ‘Evaluation of London Challenge’

8. Families of Schools “It is one of life’s great ironies: Schools are in the business of teaching and learning, yet they are terrible at learning from each other. If they ever discover how to do this their new future is assured.” “By soliciting contributions from the many we will provide a store of collective know-how with far greater power than individual schools could achieve.” Michael Fullan

9. Contextual Families The families of school information is designed to enable you to compare data about your school’s characteristics, improvement and performance with that of the other schools in similar settings thereby establishing a benchmark for improvement against previous best performance.

10. Contextual Families These families bring together schools with the highest proportions of mobile pupils and highest proportions of pupil with EAL, enabling schools to compare themselves and share their experiences with others in a similar way to the main families.

11. Contextual Families

12. Contextual Families • Below average attainment and below average progress

13. Contextual Families Below average attainment and above average progress • Below average attainment and below average progress

14. Contextual Families • Above average attainment and above average progress Below average attainment and above average progress • Below average attainment and below average progress

15. Contextual Families • Above average attainment and above average progress Below average attainment and above average progress • Below average attainment and below average progress • Above average attainment and below average progress

16. Performance Maps “Finding lifeboats, tugboats and safe harbours in stormy seas”

17. Using Families of Schools Level 1 • Senior Leadership teams should familiarise themselves with this data set alongside ASP (RAISEonline), school contextual value added and other performance data as part of self-evaluation. • There should be a full staff briefing • All staff should be aware of the comparative elements whether as a whole school or as it applies to specific subject data through INSET sessions. • There should be an agenda item on a Governing Body meeting explaining the data • HOW DO WE COMPARE TO OTHER SCHOOLS?

18. Using Families of Schools Level 2 • Organise Leadership visits to other ‘family’ schools to compare and contrast approaches to school improvement and to share best practice as evidenced by benchmarked outcomes. • Organise ‘curriculum’ visits to those schools in the family who are achieving significantly better results and similarly agree to host visits from other schools where your results are significantly better. • Select 3 schools that are the closest to you in terms of characteristics and suggest that you form a learning partnership • WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM SIMILAR SCHOOLS?

19. Using Families of Schools Level 3 • Consider working together as a complete family, but if not then in existing groups eg. Teaching School Alliances, Multi Academy Trusts, Peer Review Group or other collaboratives. • Organise thematic conferences for key staff using one common INSET day • Publish a register of schools expert practitioners. Eg leading English schools, leading Maths schools • Produce CASE studies of success • HOW CAN WE SHARE KNOWLEDGE MORE EFFECTIVELY?

20. YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE ILL TO GET BETTER!

21. Fundamentally, the Families of Schools data can be used to: • Discuss school improvement in a group of schools with similar characteristics • Share a range of whole school policies and programmes including curriculum models • Promote and deepen self evaluation amongst a community of similar schools • Contextualise school improvement data (particularly valuable for the pupil premium) • Bring leaders and teachers together who share a similar context to share best practice and collaborate in a non-competitive way

22. School Improvement Gains Through Using Family of Schools Data • Best practice is captured, highlighted and shared. • Greater support for each other – a collaborative and collegiate approach. • Capacity is built to transfer and sustain innovation across schools through practitioner networks. • Focus on the moral purpose of education – all Birmingham’s children deserve the best possible education whatever the realities of race, poverty and other social barriers.

23. Using Family of Schools Data well takes: CLARITY Have we understood the data and diagnosed the issues? COMMUNICATION Who should we approach for help and how can we give help? COURAGE Are we prepared to accept where we are and do something about it? CREATIVITY How can we apply solutions from elsewhere?

24. Better: “Betterment is a perpetual labour… Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence, it takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.” Atul Gawande, ‘Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance’

26. Networking Session Introductions: Close look at Families of Schools document Identifying partners for collaboration/Peer Review Completing paperwork to capture new partnerships and SI activity. Evaluation of event.

27. Introductions to the family Which school is each member from? What is each school’s key improvement? What is each school’s key strength?

28. Next steps Will each family member be providing support, accessing support or both? Which member(s) will each school be working with? Do they have the capacity to offer the support? Complete the willing to support and/or looking for support documents in your pack.

29. Please don’t forget to complete the evaluation form in the back of your pack! Thank you