Benefits
Benefits for school leaders
Developing the Capacity for Sustained Improvement offers the opportunity to:
- create space for strategic thinking
- understand the components of the capacity building and to help schools to respond to the question in the Ofsted school evaluation framework 'What is our capacity for further improvement?'
- identify key issues for development
- plan for longer term and sustained improvement
- implement change that is informed by external demands but undertaken according to each school’s specific priorities
- provide challenge and support for change
- take full advantage of opportunities for collaborative learning
- strengthen team working at all levels
- provide opportunities for review, evaluation and further planning
Benefits for schools
This course offers a tremendous opportunity for schools to look at their own development.
Developing the Capacity for Sustained Improvement participant
The programme has been a powerful lever for change in the participating schools and has helped to generate substantial improvement. Examples of changes in participating schools include:
- improved development planning with a longer-term perspective, more coherence and a greater sense of control over the agenda for change
- a more determined and systematic focus on learning
- a preparedness to be more radical in securing the next stage of improvement and the confidence to do some things differently
- improved effectiveness of the senior leadership team and their relationship with middle leaders
- added value from working together with other schools in various types of partnership
- an opportunity to celebrate the successes of whole-school development, to plan and to implement the next stage of change
