Leadership and management bespoke support

Overview

We have a respected record of success in working with schools to achieve outstanding results. Our teams deliver a high ambition and personalised model focused on the very best in school leadership, curriculum and pedagogy.

Our staff are innovative and forward thinking. They provide informed advice, tailored support, training and professional challenge. This involves understanding and adapting to diverse needs, especially for those who need the most support.  

The team’s success is due to excellent relationships between schools and academies, and across our system. Leaders, practitioners, staff and governors collaborate, sharing knowledge and expertise to drive improvement.

We are united by a moral purpose and determination to make a significant difference in the lives of children and young people. This has created the “ glue” that allows maintained schools and academies, and the local authority to work as one. We provide schools of all types with advice, support and challenge that helps them to respond to the uncertainty and ambiguity being created by a fast evolving system, and with the tools and strategies to develop inclusion and excellence.

Day rate of £718 per day.

What's included?

We offer a range of school improvement services that can be tailored to meet the needs of all schools, academies, and Trusts. 

Our leadership and management advisers can act as a strategic point of contact for your school or academy, federation or Trust. They work with Headteachers, CEOS, Chairs of Governors or Trustees. 

Core principles – school improvement

Our advisers base their work on the core principles of school improvement, taken from M. Fullan. These are:

• Focus systematically on the priority for improvement that is likely to have the greatest impact on teaching and learning. To have a substantial impact on teaching and learning keep plans simple and ensure that you concentrate sustained effort on a core objective
• Base all improvement activity on evidence. Use evidence to inform decisions and identify priorities for improvement and goals for teachers and learners, through a rigorous process of audit, monitoring, evaluation and targeting
• Build collective ownership through leadership development. It is important that senior leaders shape the processes and structures for improvement, and where necessary, develop their own skills in managing
• Create time for staff to learn together, to make performance more consistent and effective across the school. Create time and opportunities for teachers and other staff to work together, to share good practice, see it in other settings, hone their knowledge and skills, and develop their confidence in different ways of teaching
• Embed the development work throughout the school’s systems and practices. Reinforce successful development work by making changes elsewhere in the school to spread its impact and make the improvement process self-sustaining
• Collaborate with other organisations. Collaborate with other partners and professionals to widen the vision, sharpen skills and exchange best practice. This grows the capacity to keep improving

Our support includes:

• identification of issues and strategies to bring sustainable and inclusive improvement
• whole-school/subject/thematic review
• leadership development
• Ofsted support prior to and during the inspection e.g. support for the telephone conversation, self-evaluation, use of the inspection toolkit
• Curriculum development
• Specific or general school / Trust support
• bespoke training sessions or programmes
• website audit
• effective monitoring, accountability and scrutiny
• external validation of your self-evaluation
• training for key members of staff to improve their effectiveness
  succession planning
• Headteacher appraisal/performance review
• Headteacher and senior leadership recruitment

Why you should choose us

Hackney Education has been recognised nationally and internationally for its achievements in improving education and currently works with over 400 schools to provide school improvement support and other services.

Our expert team of leadership and management advisers are fully trained and quality assured and have an enviable track record of success in helping schools improve.

Using our service will empower you to create a leadership strategy for your school that really delivers results.