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The seven Quality PrinciplesPrinciple Linked question
1. Striving for excellence and innovation
Is there a real commitment to achieving excellence by, with and for children and young people?
2. Being authentic Is it authentic; is it the real thing?
3. Being exciting, inspiring and engaging
Are children and young people excited, engaged and inspired?
4. Ensuring a positive and inclusive experience
Does it ensure a positive and inclusive experience?
5. Actively involving children and young people
Are children and young people actively involved?
6. Enabling personal progression Do children and young people progress and know where to go next?
7. Developing belonging and ownership
Do children and young people feel they belong and it belongs to them?
Aims of the project
1. Do the quality principles benefit arts and cultural organisations/practitioners and if so how?
2. Do they change organisational/practitioner culture and practice?
3. Do they impact the quality of arts and cultural experiences?
4. Do they relate to the “Manchester Metrics” pilot?
5. To generate learning to inform approaches to understand and measure quality in arts and culture more widely
Timescale of the pilot stage
Stage 1 – Dec 2013>>• 5 organisations• Reaching 655
organisations and 45,042 children and young people
• ToC and workshop• Bi-monthly reporting
Stage 2 – March 2014>>• 9 organisations• Reaching a further 70
organisations and 2,554 children and young people
• ToC and workshop• Bi-monthly reporting
Stage 3 – NOW>>• 35 organisations apply• Seminar and VRE
How exactly did the phase 1 and 2 organisations test the quality principles?
Reviewing existing practice and evaluation findings in relation to QPs
Using QPs in their evaluation methods and frameworks
As focus for peer reflection and learning
Planning new work including their commissioning offers
Exploring relationship with other frameworks
Exploring new ways to demonstrate impact
Anticipated benefits – some of which we have begun to see
Increasing rigor of reflection, and clarity of pre-stated ambitions
Helps practitioners adopt/focus on the perspective of CYP
Consistent way of approaching planning stage, delivery, then outcomes
Common language for discussing work for, by and with CYP
Opportunity for advocacy
Continue developing shared language of quality between organisations
Begin to understand which (if any) of these pilots work in raising quality!
Organisation-level change we have begun to see… but ACE also want to know how/why?
Reinforced a culture of seeking the extra ‘one per cent improvement’
Sharper evaluation processes and instruments
Promoted learning within and between organisations
In some cases, shifted focus from teachers to pupils / from adults to CYP – in some orgs it is CYP using the principles
Moved up a ‘rung’ on the ladder of participation
Impact on quality as experienced by children and young peopleIt will take time to understand this, but there are some early clues about whether this makes a difference for CYP
Creating new opportunities for CYP involvement and leadership in a range of arts and cultural roles
More opportunities for progression
Encouraging more / different people to participate
New skills for young arts leaders
Relationship to “Manchester metrics”About capturing views of audiences, arts orgs and peers – on a simple scale e.g. “this was a thought provoking experience” Agree / Neutral / Disagree
Different purposes but complementary constructs
Metrics focus on artistic/cultural products with large audiences; quality principles can be applied more broadly, but need evaluation evidence
Both focus on evidence of participants’ experiences as an important route to excellence
Greatest opportunity for synergy is to apply metrics to a participatory experience for CYP
Learning
Some QPs more difficult to evidence (especially personal progression)
The QPs are inter-related (e.g. QP 1 “excellence” underpins all others)
Particular challenges for: virtual learning, small organisations, brief exposure
Need to be ambitious but realistic (resources/timescale)
Devil is in the detail and depth of investigation
The acid test
Sounds good so far - but does it make a positive difference for CYP?
What works, why, how can it be rolled out?