Feedback from Churnet View Middle School
"We found the process very valuable as it is an essential part of our self evaluation programme with CPD and PM being now very much on the Ofsted agenda."
Head, Churnet View Middle School
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Feedback from Castle School
“We really appreciate the depth of the report and what we are able to draw from it. No-one has ever engaged with us in this depth before.”
Melanie Warnes - Head of Castle School
Feedback from Biddick School Sports College
"Our staff from the focus group have stated that it would be beneficial to run that session with all staff and valued the work undertaken."
Paul Cowen - Biddick School Sports College
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Get your Alliance off to a flying start with SKEIN
SKEIN helps school partnerships, particularly Teaching School Alliances, map out the journey towards collective excellence and to sustain progress once there because SKEIN:
Testimonials
Schools
"We found the process very valuable as it is an essential part of our self evaluation programme with CPD and PM being now very much on the Ofsted agenda" - Head, Churnet View Middle School
"Our staff from the focus group have stated that it would be beneficial to run that session with all staff and valued the work undertaken" - Paul Cowen, Biddick School Sports College
How does Skein relate to OfSTED?
SKEIN helps schools address CPD weaknesses as identified e.g. by OfSTED.
In 2006 and again in 2010 OfSTED looked at the state of professional development in schools. They found much that was good but there were common weaknesses even in those schools that were otherwise good or outstanding. To quote the 2010 report:
But I already do a lot of staff development. What is the SKEIN service going to tell me I don’t already know?
SKEIN can help even the best schools to better focus their energies and money on professional development processes, systems and activities which deliver actual benefit for pupils. Schools, that are in general enthusiastic, organised supporters of their staff development, rarely evaluate (or know how to evaluate) the impact of the CPD they provide or pay for.
You claim that professional learning and development is the key to school improvement. What is the evidence?
Probably the best known report supporting this view is the McKinsey study of the world’s high performing schools which contains the much repeated quote “the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers”.
Will the outcomes of your work with us remain confidential to us?
Each SKEIN school receives its own report which is fully confidential to them. It’s up to each school to decide whether and how they want to share the findings internally or otherwise. E.g. some school leaders we’ve worked with chose to share excerpts from their report or report summaries with their staff whilst others decided to just use them to inform their organisation’s strategic development.