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  LfL: Events, Resources & News  
Happy 2016 to all our network colleagues!

We hope your year has got off to a good start. Ours began in Glasglow at ICSEI (International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement), where John MacBeath was awarded life membership in recognition of his extraordinary contribution over many years. Network members from around the world participated in the conference, with the Cambridge team contributing to a number of sessions, including a teacher leadership symposium.


This term, there are four interesting events at the Faculty of Education (listed below) at which we look forward to welcoming local colleagues.

Our work to develop resources to support those interested in the LfL framework and principles has led to the production of the LfL fan - a unique hand-held device that captures key information and stimulates debate and reflection. This is now available for purchase. Information is below, together with links to our latest publication - Transforming education through teacher leadership - copies of which have travelled to colleagues around the world. The network is also working on a further resource - an online self-evaluation tool - and news of that will follow later this year.

Together with colleagues at Open Society Foundations, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and Education International, we are in the final stages of planning the fourth in our seminar series that focuses on the teaching profession. Invited global experts will gather in Cambridge for two days in April for the event Thinking about Teachers, Teaching and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

We are also working closely with Cambridge International Examinations to build a networked community of schools committed to school improvement and working with the Leadership for Learning framework and principles.

Recruitment is underway for the October 2016 entry to the Educational Leadership and School Improvement masters route, which is underpinned by the LfL principles. This can be studied full time (1 year) or part time (2 years).

We look forward to connecting with as many of our network colleagues as possible during 2016.


FACULTY OF EDUCATION EVENTS

JANUARY

Students as agents in pedagogical change
 

Join Year 11 students from Passmores Academy to engage in a dialogue surrounding effective and meaningful teaching and learning strategies and initiatives, within lessons, and within the wider context of education. The students will discuss their experiences of working towards completing a Higher Project (mini research thesis) in an area of their choice.

Thursday 28th January 2016, 4 - 5pm
Room GS5 - Faculty of Education
All welcome. Free to attend.
Please email lfl@educ.cam.ac.uk to register.

 

A Good Educational Read - Professor Maurice Galton with John MacBeath

We are hosting a new seminar in our A Good Educational Read Series, inviting our distinguished colleague, Maurice Galton, to look back on his career in education and select books and articles he would recommend.

This seminar is sure to be a fascinating event for everyone, providing an inspirational reading list and an opportunity to discuss what makes a good educational read.

Wednesday 27th January, 5.15 - 6.30pm
GS4 - Faculty of Education
All welcome. Free to attend. Drinks served.
Please email lfl@educ.cam.ac.uk to register.


MARCH

Hospital Wood Library  - Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination projects with children in different places

This supper seminar will explore the challenge of co-creation with children and what that looks like in practice for everyone involved; children, teachers, other educators, families, other artists and experts. CCI artists Sally Todd and Deb Wilenski will share insights from recent work with Addenbrooke's Hospital, Spinney Wild Woods and Rock Road Library. Colleagues from the projects will also join our discussion.

Thursday 3rd March, 5 - 7pm
Room GS5 - Faculty of Education
All welcome. Free to attend. Drinks served.
Please email lfl@educ.cam.ac.uk to register.

 

A Good Educational Read - Professor Mary James in conversation with Sue Swaffield

Professor Mary James will be in conversation with Sue Swaffield in this seminar, discussing her chosen publications and their contribution to educational thinking, practice and policy.

This is our third in A Good Educational Read Series, where we invite distinguished colleagues to look back on their careers in education to select books and articles they would recommend.

Tuesday 8th March, 5.15 - 6.30pm
Room GS5 - Faculty of Education
All welcome. Free to attend. Drinks served.
Please email lfl@educ.cam.ac.uk to register.

MORE INFORMATION ON ALL LFL EVENTS

 
  LfL Fan  
- The LfL fan is an innovative hand held resource
- It captures the key LfL principles and framework elements
- It stimulates debate and reflection in educational contexts
 

The LfL Fan features the key principles and elements of the LfL framework on a series of petals. It is a reminder of the detail of the LfL framework with different coloured petals in sections for the principles, levels of learning, 'foundations' (i.e. fundamental ideas such as moral purpose, agency and critical friendship) and thinking prompts.

Selecting a few petals at a time (hiding the rest under the cover petal) helps focus attention, thinking, dialogue and action on certain aspects. Petals can be considered in any combination.

The fan can be used in educational contexts everywhere, and provides an easily accessible reminder of Leadership for Learning in order to promote LfL practice.

Customisation of the fan (e.g. writing notes on the reverse side of the petals) is encouraged, and we are inviting colleagues to share ideas with others as well as with the LfL team.

For more details, click here.

  Transforming education through teacher leadership  

This book, edited by David Frost, illuminates and exemplifies teacher leadership through authentic narratives. The authors include teachers themselves and those who facilitate and support them.

Collectively, these accounts explicate a theory of non-positional teacher leadership and its role in educational transformation. The theory is embedded in the narratives and key insights are highlighted in the editorial commentary that runs throughout.

Read this book and you will be reinvigorated to take charge of your own practice development and inspire others to do so.

Chris Richards
, Academies Week

This is a book which deserves a wide audience. It cultivates optimism about teachers and what they can achieve in schools and their communities. It is important because at the heart of the book are teachers’ voices and stories written in an engaging and accessible way. It would be wrong to assume however that it is just a collection of stories. It carries a theory about school leadership and school improvement which is challenging.

From the Foreword by Jo Mylles, Deputy Headteacher

Available to purchase here for £15, from the University of Cambridge. 

 
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