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Dear colleagues, The autumn term is in full swing for us, and no doubt for you too. We are involved in many different partnership and development projects in the centre, at different stages of maturity. We are especially delighted that the first cohort for Grand Curriculum Designs in partnership with RSA starts in November.

As a research department of the IOE we are working on a number of projects - some of which are highlighted below. Please do spare a moment to look at our wide-ranging events; Autumn events are listed on the right-hand panel and other events in the calendar here. Of specific interest, Professor Toby Greany, Professor of Leadership and Innovation at LCLL is giving the LCLL annual lecture in March 2014. Always a popular and thought-provoking event, this time, Toby is discussing what a self-improving school system looks like and the necessary steps towards one. I look forward to seeing you there.

Vivienne Porritt Executive Director, LCLL

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October 2013 LCLL Membership and Autumn events We offer professional development and a refreshing learning environment for leaders and colleagues working in educational settings through informal Hot Topic events, seminars and lectures.

LCLL membership is themed around current ideas, research and practice in education. LCLL members have access to a member’s only area on our website where presentations and materials from events are posted and FREE and reduced rates for our events and those of partner organisations. Events are open to both members and non members with LCLL members receiving a free or discounted entry to our events. Join now by calling 020 7612 6689/6245 or email the team at londoncentre@ioe.ac.uk.

Or complete an application form.

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Here’s a taste of what we have coming up:

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Leadership Co-Lab success for middle and senior programmes Over 1100 participants have now started on the 3 National College for Teaching and Leadership’s Leadership Curriculum programmes at middle and senior leader levels plus NPQH. This represents LCLL’s involvement in 20% of the national development programme.

Watch out for the next recruitment details coming at the end of October.

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Professor Louise Stoll appointed to the Academy of Social Sciences Professor Louise Stoll, Professor of Education, LCLL and IOE, is one of 51 leading social scientists to have been conferred the award of Academician by the Academy of Social Sciences this year. The

Professional Development Quality Mark Award Date: Monday 21 October 2013 Time: 14.00 - 15.30 Cost: Free information session Find out about the Professional Development Quality Mark Award and its benefits.

Download: booking form | flyer Improving learning through effective lesson observation and professional dialogue Date: Tuesday 5 November 2013 Time: 13.30 - 16.30 Cost: £85.00; £70.00 to LCLL members With: Karen Spence-Thomas, LCLL Does lesson observation have the learning and development of teachers and pupils at its heart?

Download: booking form | flyer Using iPads in education settings Date: Monday 11 November 2013 Time: 13.30 – 16.30 Cost: £125.00; £110 to LCLL members

recipients of the award cover a wide range of expertise in the social sciences, including education, social policy, politics and criminology.

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Grand Curriculum Designs: Designing your school curriculum: improving outcomes for learners Grand Curriculum Designs is a pioneering new professional development programme for school leaders and other educators to support schools with skills to design curricula that are flexible, innovative and responsive to the needs of their students and communities. Launched by the RSA and IOE, and building on growing national interest in curriculum innovation, the programme is expanding nationally during 2013-14. The first cohort for the new programme commences in November.

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Network and Partnership News Newham Professional Development Partnership LCLL in partnership with Best Practice Network, has been the preferred provider of CPD in Newham since 2012. The programme consists of a broad range of courses for NQTs, Subject Leaders, Support Staff, Senior Leaders and others.

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Contact: Tim Lancaster Working with School Partnerships at the IOE The Institute of Education works in strong partnerships with individual schools, clusters of schools and Teaching School Alliances to support improved outcomes for your colleagues, children and young people. Our school partnerships newsletter IOE Connect describes successful School Partnership projects.

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IOE has launched our School Partnerships Awards. We will designate schools as Specialist Partners for Initial Teacher Education, Professional and leadership development and Research and development.

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Accredited and professional programmes Leading teacher learning and development Our suite of masters leadership programmes, such as Educational Leadership (International) MBA and MA Leadership offers high quality professional learning. Additionally, Innovative leadership of professional development is tailored to colleagues with experience of leading professional development. This exciting programme, developed by the LCLL, also supports you in the verification of the Professional Development Quality Mark.

NEW MA Inspection and Regulation (flexible distance learning) recruiting now for 17 March 2014 start Our flexible programme, offered as a PG Certificate or full MA has been developed with OFSTED and is only offered at the IOE. It

With: Gavin Calnan, Bentley Wood High School, Harrow.

Practice using an iPad and explore different educational apps which have potential for use in a variety of teaching and learning contexts.

Download: booking form | flyer Effectively managing headteacher performance Date: Tuesday 12 November 2013 Time: 17.00 - 19.00 Cost: £50.00; £40.00 to LCLL members With: Dr David Eddy Spicer and Professor Peter Earley, LCLL Ensuring that headteachers' performance management supports school improvement, and that heads are held to account and their performance is managed effectively, is a key role for chairs of governors and governing bodies.

Download: booking form | flyer Leading professional development in changing times Date: Wednesday 20 November 2013 Time: 13.30 - 16.30 Cost: £85.00; £70.00 to LCLL members With: Carol Taylor, LCLL We will explore together what the latest research tells us about effective CPD that makes a difference to adult learning and practice and that has an impact on the learning of pupils.

Download: booking form | flyer Interpreting data effectively to raise achievement Date: Monday 25 November 2013 Time: 13.30 - 16.30 Cost: £85.00; £70.00 to LCLL members With: Dr Jenny Francis, LCLL Are you confident to talk to Ofsted about outcomes? Can you explain the standards and progress of pupils in your school clearly to parents and governors?

Download: booking form | flyer Using iPads in education settings Date: Friday 6 December 2013 Time: 13.30 – 16.30 Cost: £125.00; £110 to LCLL members With: Gavin Calnan, Bentley Wood High School, Harrow Practice using an iPad and explore different educational apps which have potential for use in a variety of teaching and learning contexts.

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LCLL Annual Lecture 2014 LCLL Annual Lecture - Are we nearly there yet? progress and next steps towards a selfimproving school system Date: Tuesday 18 March 2014 Time: 17.30 - 19.30 Cost: £50.00; free to LCLL members

develops your reflective capacities to connect self knowledge and understanding to the changing demands of the inspection systems and contexts in your own country.

Contact: Amanda Williams Click here for info!

Flexible distance learning in the Applied Educational Leadership and Management MA Study on this highly-regarded and well-established online Masters programme, connecting and studying with an international cohort.

Contact: Isobel Bowditch Click here for info!

Establishing goals and expectations The Professional Development Quality Mark is a very valuable resource for leaders to benchmark the quality and impact of professional development in school improvement practice. The PDQM mark is verified by the IOE. For more information and to download the Quality Mark Framework and Verification process click here Download: Booking form | Flyer

With: Toby Greany, Professor of Leadership and Innovation, LCLL What might a self-improving school system actually look like in practice and what might be required from government and schools for it to succeed?

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Special offer on Professional Learning Community service for members Access a bundle of resources for online access for staff to acclaimed CPD magazines, including School Leadership Today, Leadership Briefing and Professional Development Today. LCLL members obtain this fantastic resource at a special rate of £250.00 Primary Schools (normally £500.00), and £350.00 (normally £700.00) Secondary Schools. Full details at http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/plcforl cllm.htm

Research Update

Middle leaders as catalysts for improving Middle leaders: making the most of your teams through innovative teacher practice: developing a knowledge exchange and impact network with professional development Challenge Partner schools This practical and interactive opportunity supports you to: Challenge Partners (CP) and LCLL are exploring  learn about latest approaches to effective professional establishing an effective network with middle development (PD) leaders (MLs) across 19 CP senior partner  develop a strategic vision for PD schools. The aim is to share research and  ensure that PD makes a difference for your colleagues and practice-based knowledge about excellent pupils middle leadership practice and professional  plan for effective PD development and develop evidence-based tools to track ways in which MLs change and enhance  collaborate with middle leader colleagues. their practice. These MLs will extend learning Contact: Eirini Konstantinidou through collaborating with their 217 hub partner Click here for more info!

Foundations for successful coaching A two day programme that will help you to develop your coaching skills to support change, personal performance and learning. This programme offers a blend of theoretical input with extensive opportunities to practise core coaching skills.

Contact: Eirini Konstantinidou Click here for more info!

Early Leadership How was it for you?

10 October was the last session for participants on our April 2013 cohort of the Early Leadership programme - they were a particularly creative group and their final presentations were amazing! But what did they gain from the overall programme? Here are just a few responses ; ‘I have used what I have learnt on the programme over and over! It has really affected my practice.’

‘Excellent facilitator presentations each session – lots of good ideas

schools. The project is led by Louise Stoll with Carol Taylor, Chris Brown and Karen SpenceThomas.

Contact: Louise Stoll

Effective headteacher performance Our study of effective headteacher performance management is nearing completion, with a final report anticipated at the end of 2013. The study involved 20 case studies of schools or school groups (e.g., MATs and federations) throughout England; online surveys of governors and headteachers; expert interviews; and an extensive literature review drawing on international sources. The final report includes a detailed synthesis of the research and succinct recommendations for governors. The LCLL is sponsoring an event workshop for headteachers and chairs of governors based on the findings on 12th November, 5.00-7.00pm.

Click here for event info!

Click here for further details about the study

to implement in daily practice.’

International

‘Being able to communicate and share experience with others and seeing people’s confidence and positivity grow.’

Use this link for information about all our international leadership activity Contact: Chris To

Every participant who attended would recommend the programme to other colleagues. So if you are a new leader or aspiring to be then this excellent programme could be just what you need. The next cohort starts in January 2014.

Contact: Maggie Woods Click here for more info!

Publications and Social Media resources Timely new and existing resources adding impact to your research and practice NEW Making Evidence Matter: A new perspective for evidence-informed policy making in education, Chris Brown, (IOE Press) This title re-examines the arguments in favour of evidence-informed policy making in education, examines why evidence is often disregarded by policy makers and advances the idea that a paradigm of partnership between researchers and policy makers is required in order to improve the current situation. It is aimed at researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in enhancing the use of evidence in policy making.

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Contact: Chris Brown Click here to read an interview with Chris Brown See Chris’s IOE London Blog - Time to re-think the unthinkable: how can we get our research messages discussed by politicians?

NEW Capacity for learning: getting serious about practice improvement, in Leading Educational Change: Global issues, challenges, and lessons on whole-system reform, Teachers College Press A collection of original essays from international experts in the field of educational change representing 15 countries across 6 continents, with a chapter from Louise Stoll, is edited by Helen Janc Malone. Each chapter draws on the latest knowledge from research, policy, and practice to provide important insights for creating systemic, meaningful reform.

Contact: Louise Stoll NEW Exploring the School Leadership Landscape, Peter Earley, Bloomsbury Drawing on a wealth of research, Exploring the School Leadership Landscape critically considers the ways in which school leadership and its practice have evolved, exploring what has changed and what has remained the same over the last decade. Both empirically and theoretically informed, it covers: - the relationship between leadership and student learning - school autonomy, accountability and the market

Back to Singapore for further leadership development Following great evaluations, we are once again offering our suite of international leadership programmes in Singapore. Our Early Leadership, Developing Middle Leaders and Widening Leadership programmes have proved popular not just in the UK but also for international schools and we have been running them successfully in the Far East for a number of years. For more information please go to the following link where you can also find out more on these programmes and others we can offer international schools and colleges.

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Inspection and Regulation for Abu Dhabi Inspection and Monitoring Division LCLL have been in discussion with CfBT and representatives of Abu Dhabi Inspection and monitoring division and will be hosting 15-20 people per year onto the masters modules with the potential for students to apply for the full Inspection and Regulation MA up to a total of approximately 60-80 people. For more information as to how we can meet your countries’ inspection and monitoring requirements: Contact: Melanie Ehren or Elizabeth Wood Click here for more info!

Hosting Brazilian colleagues at the LCLL In September, LCLL hosted a party of visitors from Brazil who spent a week with us enjoying a mix of inspiring lectures from LCLL colleagues along with visits to schools. Lucy Blewett from the Primary Advantage Federation, Hackney, and Guy Holloway, head of Hampton Court House also met with the group and hosted visits to their schools. The visitors left saying that they had learnt so much about our education system and also enjoyed the shopping!

Contact: Chris To

Seminar on Multilingualism and Language Diversity held at European Parliament In September, MEP Miguel Angel Martínez, VicePresident of the European Parliament responsible for Multilingualism and MEP Hannu Takkula, Committee on Culture and Education hosted a seminar on Multilingualism and

- leadership and governance - leadership intensification and distribution - new models including system leadership.

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NEW Law, Education, Politics, Fairness: England's extreme legislation for education reform, Dan Gibton, IOE Press This title analyses how and why England has had so much law-based education reform in the last three decades and asks what can be learned about the pros and cons of legislation as a policy tool.

Focusing on the period 2000 to 2011, it looks at the politics and mechanisms of education policy and reform and the figures and organisations involved in it and that bear its impact.

NEW School Inspection Impact See LCLL's Dr Melanie Ehren discussing the impact of school inspections on teaching and learning (video) http://bit.ly/19yRvyH Riley, K (2013) Leadership of Place: Stories from Schools in the US, UK and South Africa Click here for info!

IOE London blog It carries views, news and thought pieces from IOE academics, practitioners and occasional guest writers, and is a key way for you to engage with policy, practice and debate.

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Language Diversity; the vital importance of supporting all of Europe's languages. Dina Mehmedbegovic of LCLL, was an invited panellist, and addressed the importance of multilingualism, offering a vision for a future multilingual Europe and preservation of the language diversity.

Educational accountability toolkit for developing countries IOE and CfBT are hosting an expert meeting on educational accountability in developing countries. The expert meeting will welcome colleagues from OECD, UNICEF, British Council, UNESCO and World Bank on the 21-23 October.

The purpose is to develop a toolkit of ideas as to which online/mobile tools can enhance educational accountability in developing countries, and the requirements that need to be in place for their actual use. The toolkit will be used by IOE and CfBT in consultancy in developing countries, in IOE-based workshops for developing countries, and also as a teaching resource within the IOE’s Inspection and Regulation MA. Contact: Melanie Ehren