A map for school creativity and success

Tim Brighouse

Fullan’s Prescrition

• Hope…energy….enthusiasm• Moral purpose, Understanding ‘change’,

Relationship building, Knowledge Creation and Sharing, Making coherence

• Internal and external commitment

• ‘More good things happen and fewer bad things happen’

An example of a map for school improvement?

• -leading creatively

• -managing creatively and effectively

• -reviewing creatively

• -developing creative staff

• -focusing on teaching, learning, assessing

• -creating an environment fit for learning

• -involving parents and community creatively

• -involving pupils creatively

You know you are in a good school when….

• Teachers TALK about teaching

• Teachers OBSERVE each other teach

• Teachers plan, organise and evalauate TOGETHER

• Teachers teach each other

compliance philosophy

small matters

quiet life

embodied, real learningone offs, special events

exercising trudge

A futures learning outlook for schools?(Mick Waters)

big questions