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Spring 2012 Seminars

NEW! Now updated programme of seminars Click here for more.

We wish you a successful and prosperous 2012

malmo

Happy New Year! Just back from the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement Conference in Malmo. An international conference with bursaries works well to ensure an active presence from all around the world. I was excited to learn that, inspired by what we’ve done, delegates from 4 other countries decided then and there to build research routemaps for their own country. We are looking forward to helping them on the way. Quite a number of other delegates said they would experiment with them too. So let’s watch this space. Click here for the presentation and here for more information about our routemaps.

We also ran a session on aligning curriculum change and CPD and embedding challenge in the curriculum with our partner researchers from Wolverhampton. Two Vice Principals from schools in the UK, and the Education Policy leader of a trade union and HE colleagues from Canada and Indonesia all asked to receive more information. Click here for the presentation and links to the reports.

NEWS - Future of the (TDA) Mentoring and Coaching Extranet	Come and work for us now
As part of the re-organisation of the TDA, the Mentoring and Coaching resources on their 'Extranet' are being taken down. You may have been redirected to our site from TDA's website. Find out more by clicking here.	We are looking to recruit a Research Assistant urgently. Click here for more information.

Constructing challenge - and other hard things

Try our new guided routemaps. These take you on a journey through the essential evidence about key aspects of developing your curriculum. Included on the journey are engaging summaries of the research and everything you need to run successful workshops with colleagues (in departmental meetings, twilight INSET sessions, or as part of a full INSET day). Constucting challenge and Creating effective curriculum experiences are currently available with more to follow.

Expansive Education

CUREE is pleased to have been asked to be an Expansive Education pioneer because of the extent to which Expansive Education, the brainchild of Bill Lucas and Guy Claxton, is committed to teacher research and enquiry. This taster is a resource that we have contributed to their bank and helps you explore your students’ experience of independent learning through collaborative enquiry. If you would like to find out more about using tasters and other CUREE resources to improve practice in your school please contact Rebecca Raybould at rebecca.raybould@curee.co.uk. For more information about Expansive Education see www.expansiveeducation.net/pages/resources/ee-pioneers-resources

Effective Professional Development in Schools

We are very pleased to bring you news of a new service we have launched for schools building on CUREE's expertise in professional learning and the curriculum

Skein is a new service to enable you to drive forward effective professional learning. It will:

give you good information at whole school level about what your colleagues' development needs are;
get you the evidence you need to target and track progress by creating a really effective environment for professional learning; and
connect you with a network of like minded schools to compare notes and share ideas and practices

For more information:

visit the Skein website
download a printable outline of the Skein service
View a video summary of Skein

CUREE works at the leading edge of research and evidence-informed educational policy and practice. Our mission centres on promoting and supporting the use of evidence by building bridges between academic research and professional practice. We support practice-driven action research, develop tools for Continuing Professional Development and Learning (CPDL), for organisational leadership and for teaching and learning. We believe in modelling good practice in everything we do and our work in consultancy, advice, development and training in the use of research and evidence is consistently informed by the principles underpinning effective mentoring and coaching in education.

We have tried to include a lot of resources on our site of use to practitioners, leaders and policy makers. We have also included links to lots of relevant stuff in other places (much of which we made too). I hope you find it useful. If so, please let us know.

Philippa Cordingley

A thought for our times - taken from a different one

"Educate, or govern, they are one and the same word. Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave . . . . It is not teaching the youth of England the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers; and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery, and their literature to lust. It is, on the contrary, training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls. It is painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness and by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise,-but above all - by example". The Crown of Wild Olive - J Ruskin MA

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