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NLE Induction

Thank you and congratulations

Fiona Cullivan-Ward NLE

Head Teacher

Littletown J, I & N School

Information correct as at 18 October 2017

NLE’s in the School Led

System

Shifting system and you are now a crucial cog in the wheel

Task:

• Why have you chosen this route?

• How will your own organisation benefit?


Seminar 1: Commissioning,

Brokerage and Engagement

Objectives:

• Building Leadership

• Securing and managing deployments

• Commissioning

• Scoping the work

• Deployment in action

• Risks and rewards


Outward facing…...

but day job first.

NLE & National Support School

Align yourself to a Teaching School Alliance

Listen to your own team & Governors

Listen to national/ regional developments


Building Leadership Capacity • Governors need to be clear and report

all work to them

• Use your bursary

• Think creatively

• Both our DHT’s – SLE

• DFE case study: “Flexible working in

schools” February 2017

• SLT has expanded

• Task: Share how have you built capacityInformation correct as at 18 October 2017

My recent deployments • School to school support: Inadequate, RI, Coasting…. KS2 to birth to 5

• Pupil Premium Reviews

• Training for SLE’s

• Interviewing for the DFE

• Mentoring/ coaching for new Head Teachers

• SLE curricular, data focus support plus leadership development

• My whole team e.g. deploying teachers, TA’s, Nursery Nurses

• Across two LA boundaries

• 34 days in the last 3 yearsInformation correct as at 18 October 2017

The phone starts to ring……

Accepting commissions;

- For yourself….your personal area of expertise will become known

- For a model involving your National Support School Team

- For a model which seeks your leadership of a wider team e.g. SLE, LLE LA consultants from a pool with TSA/ LA.


Securing and Managing

commissions

• Where from? LA, TSA, SSIF, TLIF, RSC, Diocese, other schools,

MATs, Trusts, Partnerships

• Funding – who pays what part/ there can be two clients

• Networking: TSA & being part of the sub-regional teaching school

group


Brokerage Business relationship

Who is the client?

Who will make the initial contact?

Where does your accountability sit?

Who are you reporting to?

What will you do?

Who will you contact when it is not

going to plan?Information correct as at 18 October 2017

Ok you’ve got the job…….now

Scoping the task Task: How do you prepare?

Who do you speak to?

What documents would you need?

What key questions would you ask?

Initial audit questions

SEF/ SIP

Data summary

Staffing breakdown

Any external reports

Moderation reports

Website checkInformation correct as at 18 October 2017

Deployment Contract

Be precise

Tight time limited

State who & when deliver

Impact driven

Set monitoring timescale

Costed accurately

Sample contract to consider


Communication channels

• Range of stakeholders

• Relationship building

NLE

LA

HT

SLT

Ofsted

HMI

Governors

All

StaffInformation correct as at 18 October 2017

Engagement

• Enable the leadership to understand why systematic change needed….not just a sticking plaster

• Enable open dialogue…… the Head Teacher may not want you..

• Some leaders decide to leave the challenge …. mid way through the process

• Consider location: Good practice visits to your school and deployment of SLE’s

• Be objective, vigilant and evaluative

• What do you do when it goes wrong?

Discuss code of conduct for NLE’s?

What should NLE’s do if they have concerns?Information correct as at 18 October 2017

Top Five Tips1. Prepare thoroughly, analyse data, read OFSTED reports before first visit

2. Be clear about what is needed, who will do it, when and how it will be achieved

3. Put quantitative measures in place e.g. improvements in attainment and progress

4. Keep the client and all commissioners in the loop at every stage

5. Remember the crucial word is SUPPORT and you are building the scaffolding of

success around the client


Seminar 2Deployment in Action, Impact,

Reporting and Accountability


Objectives

•Types of deployment

•Action Plans and Reporting

•Impact

•Payment and Bursary

•Reaching out fro NLE support

•Successes…

Deployment in Action


Types of Deployment

• Pupil Premium Reviewer

• Requires Improvement

• Inadequate

• LA monitoring

• Coasting

• Governors/ Head requests

• Subject specific bespoke deployment

• Meeting with HMIInformation correct as at 18 October 2017

Earn their trust ………

• Making first contact

• First impressions…smile at everyone

• Listen to all SLT

• Repair the hurt……..

• Find quick wins for self esteem & staff

• It can be what they don’t tell you that

you really need to know.

• Build from within because you will

leave them….Information correct as at 18 October 2017

Action Plans & Reporting

• LA / OFSTED/ MAT Action Plan

• Priorities may not be well defined and your own due diligence is essential

• Define actions & support precisely, who, when, doing what and track it.

• Clarity with the LA (if they are the commissioner) any hidden factors

• Engage with governors from the start

• Support may be short term or it may open up even more concerns….

• You might have to revisit and revise the action plan, again and again until the leadership team can see the direction clearly


Impact, Impact, Impact…Accountability

• Who are you reporting to and for what? NCTL / School / LA / Diocese / RSC?

Agree

• What will success look like in 6 weeks, 1 term, 1 year….

• Define impact measures- time limited

• Definition of success criteria: impact on pupils, data, quality of behaviour, teaching and learning

• Clarity of evidence emerging: 6 weekly Monitoring meetings with all present

• Evidence trail: reports from all SLE, LLE, and consultants

TASK : Consider ANON Monitoring team meeting and ANON Notes of VisitInformation correct as at 18 October 2017

Payment and Bursary

• Keep detailed records: Invoicing

& DFE collaborative fund return

• DHT release time

• Admin

• Fund and develop roles within

your own school: e.g. Research

team

• Report to Finance CommitteeInformation correct as at 18 October 2017

Reach out as an NLE

Mentoring and support for NLEs

Regional meetings

System leader events

Partnerships through TSA

Sharing of approaches

Communication


It can get complicated…..

Top tips for success and impact

1. Keep communication lines open, lots of phone calls, cards, emails

2. Do your Notes of Visit on the day with clear NLE & school actions

3. Use trackable gap tasks in order that school is proactive

4. Keep focus on leadership, quality of teaching and learning and data

5. Do the difficult conversation but always be supportive

Remember you are the scaffolding….. which will be pushed away as they build strength.

Task: Look at the NLE Scenarios- How would you resolve these?


Successes

Above all else……..

listen, nurture and challenge

Not just the client school but your

own team

• Twitter:

• @LittletownSch

• @LittletownEYs

• @Fiona_C_Ward


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