This Year’s Conference – Working Towards ‘Every Child in a Great School!’


The overarching aim of the Teaching Schools Council is to play a key role in ensuring that every child and young person, in every part of the country, has access to a place in a great school.
 
Put simply there are three commitments that the Teaching Schools Council seeks to ensure, that every school in England:
  • is entitled to relevant and timely support
  • is prepared to be a giver of support
  • is in an effective partnership
 
This year’s West Midlands School Leaders Conference will take place on Wednesday 17th May. Over 200 delegates are expected to attend including leaders from hundreds of schools. Our expert panel will deliver a range of inspirational talks on the crucial issues currently facing education managers.
 
Consequently, the Conference will focus on how the educational landscape is evolving through system leadership. Effective leadership involves raising the bar and closing the gap for all children.  While pupil background remains the strongest determinant of educational success, it is the quality and capacity of teachers and leaders that makes the greatest difference to pupil outcomes.
 
Fortunately, there is a growing commitment among education leaders to pursue school system-wide success – involving the overcoming of barriers, participation in collaboration and the sharing of knowledge and best practice (including with those outside of the educational establishment).
 
Moreover, this can only be achieved by proactive school leaders who work in partnership through appropriate networks.
 
The result will be more (potentially all) schools achieving the best possible progress and outcomes for increasing numbers of (again, possibly all) children.
 
Andrew Warren, Director of BTSA and Chair of the Teaching Schools Council, agrees: “I started teaching in 1985.  It was a time before a national curriculum, standardised tests and the assessment of sub-levels.  Ofsted had yet to be invented, there were no league tables and schools didn’t even manage their own budgets!  Routine classroom observations were a thing of the future and MATs were what you asked children to wipe their feet on after playtime.  It was a very different world! 
 
The big question though is: is it better today or were those bygone days really the “good ole days”?  I ask this, because, seismic though changes since 1985 have been, in one sense, the biggest changes are happening right now, in front of our eyes, and we’re not only witnesses to this, but participants and leaders.  Historians will comment on the effectiveness of the education we provide for our children and we need to be up to the task.
 
That is why I passionately believe in the need for school leaders to take time out to meet together and share ideas and expertise.  We are all in this together, and together we have a chance to make this work, and an opportunity to pave a clear path for those who will follow. “
 
Join us at this year’s Conference to explore and discuss further.

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