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| style="background-color:#fdfdfd;border-top:0.035cm solid #00ffff;border-bottom:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-left:0.035cm solid #00ffff;border-right:none;padding:0cm;"| '''Principles of school improvement'''
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| style="background-color:#fdfdfd;border-top:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-bottom:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-left:0.035cm solid #00ffff;border-right:none;padding:0cm;"| Focus systematically on teaching and learning
| style="background-color:#fdfdfd;border-top:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-bottom:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-left:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-right:0.035cm solid #00ffff;padding:0cm;"| The classroom should be the focus and the primary site for improving teaching and learning. CPD will involve both enquiry into and reflection on classroom practice, and opportunities to learn from good practice.

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| style="background-color:#fdfdfd;border-top:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-bottom:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-left:0.035cm solid #00ffff;border-right:none;padding:0cm;"| Base all improvement activity on evidence about relative performance
| style="background-color:#fdfdfd;border-top:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-bottom:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-left:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-right:0.035cm solid #00ffff;padding:0cm;"| Professional development needs should be identified at three levels: school, team and personal. School and team development needs should be identified through whole- school review; personal needs should be identified through performance management.

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| style="background-color:#fdfdfd;border-top:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-bottom:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-left:0.035cm solid #00ffff;border-right:none;padding:0cm;"| Build collective ownership and develop leadership
| style="background-color:#fdfdfd;border-top:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-bottom:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-left:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-right:0.035cm solid #00ffff;padding:0cm;"| CPD should draw in as many people as possible to build expertise across the school, enable individuals to both contribute and lead, and so make the success of whole- school initiatives more assured. Professional development arising out of school and team priorities places individual development in the context of whole-school improvement.

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| style="background-color:#fdfdfd;border-top:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-bottom:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-left:0.035cm solid #00ffff;border-right:none;padding:0cm;"| Involve collaboration with other organisations
| style="background-color:#fdfdfd;border-top:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-bottom:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-left:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-right:0.035cm solid #00ffff;padding:0cm;"| Teachers should have regular opportunities for collaborative working (e.g. joint planning, team teaching, observation and feedback, coaching). Successful collaboration requires time for teachers to share their learning with colleagues. It may be necessary to go beyond the department or school to find suitable colleagues to work with.

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| style="background-color:#fdfdfd;border-top:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-bottom:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-left:0.035cm solid #00ffff;border-right:none;padding:0cm;"| Create time for staff to learn together
| style="background-color:#fdfdfd;border-top:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-bottom:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-left:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-right:0.035cm solid #00ffff;padding:0cm;"| It is important to create opportunities, both internally and externally through links with other schools, for staff to learn with and from others. The value of informal learning as well as effective use of structured time should also be recognised.

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| style="background-color:#fdfdfd;border-top:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-bottom:0.035cm solid #00ffff;border-left:0.035cm solid #00ffff;border-right:none;padding:0cm;"| Embed the improvements in the school’s systems and practices
| style="background-color:#fdfdfd;border-top:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-bottom:0.035cm solid #00ffff;border-left:0.018cm solid #00ffff;border-right:0.035cm solid #00ffff;padding:0cm;"| The professional development system should be integrated with other planning and review cycles. Individual professional development should endeavour to meet whole-school, team and personal needs.

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