ASCL Professional Partner - an improved SIP service

New for 2011-12

With the national SIP programme having recently finished, ASCL MAPS has responded by forming a new team of consultants, all with extensive and highly successful experience as school leaders and of working as a School Improvement Partner to secondary schools

Aims

To provide your school with a highly professional and experienced independent colleague, to offer SIP-like services.
To work with you to support, advise and challenge your self evaluation and resulting school improvement programme, and to help extend your capacity to improve.
To provide external validation of the quality and accuracy of your school self evaluation.

Objectives

To provide your school with a flexible, agreed package of support.
To provide a tailor-made programme of visits and agendas to suit your individual school needs.

Your consultant will...

operate as a critical, professional friend and personal mentor
have had considerable and successful previous experience as a senior leader at secondary level and as a SIP
be fully trained and have the skills and attributes to fulfil all ASCL protocols
be knowledgeable and up to date with the current issues and challenges facing schools, including the requirements of the new Ofsted framework

Possible SIP-like five day package
Autumn term (two days)

Preliminary visit/getting to know your school.
Attainment and achievement focus: objective analysis and evaluation of available outcomes data, review of resultant strengths, development areas, actions.
Target setting support.
Review of your school’s improvement priorities and progress towards them.

Spring term (one day)

Review of progress towards targets, associated tracking, interventions, impact.
Review of progress against whole school priorities.
‘Support and challenge’ for other key areas of school improvement eg teaching and learning, pupils’ behaviour and safety, leadership and management.

Summer term (one day)

Further review of progress towards targets for the current final year cohort and against whole school priorities.
‘Support and challenge’ to cover other key areas eg overall effectiveness, capacity to improve.
Priorities for following academic year.

Throughout the year (one day)

Support for the headteacher: face to face, email, telephone, as required.

Additional types of support

Triangulation of your school self evaluation: Learning walks/lesson observations/work scrutinies/student voice.
Paired lesson observations for standardisation.
Support for Ofsted preparation.
Support for improving learning and teaching.
Support and development for leadership.
Departmental reviews.
Support for strategic planning.
Support for policy and document development including SEF alternatives.

Fee
Daily rate: £650 plus expenses and VAT (inclusive of preparation, required report writing and follow up).

Five days or more (recommended): discounted to £600 plus expenses and VAT per day. Total: £3,000 plus expenses and VAT

For more information telephone the MAPS team on 0116 299 1122 or email consultancy@ascl.org.uk