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Director at the Reach Foundation. Previously primary teacher, A Level Religious Studies teacher and senior leader at an all-through school. Chair of governors of a primary cluster board.
Collect all the other bits and pieces at www.jonhutchinson.com
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đđđ Normalise this sort of thing!
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Ok
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Believes in the mission, red tape around registration and related bureaucracy a bit mind boggling, v high quality training, support with the business and admin side of things. I think there was also something about Ofsted taking much longer to do the visit.
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Oh Iâm sure thatâs sheâd love this! Good to have support in what can be quite an isolated job. It will also give an opportunity to show off the smeds and the smoos tuff tray! Will email, thanks.
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Sounding good?
You can apply here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you know an aspiring leader in the East of England, someone you know is great, please do send this on to them and encourage them to apply.
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Termly conferences will give you the opportunity to deepen your knowledge of school leadership and strengthen relationships with your cohort.
They will be there to support and challenge you as you apply for your first headship, and will be there to collaborate once youâve each taken up that post.
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Sounding good?
You can apply here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you know an aspiring leader in the East of England, someone you know is great, please do send this on to them and encourage them to apply.
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Alongside all of this, youâll have access to an online platform that includes 3 modules of asynchronous content (16 videos per term), and webinars roughly once a month.
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Termly conferences will give you the opportunity to deepen your knowledge of school leadership and strengthen relationships with your cohort.
They will be there to support and challenge you as you apply for your first headship, and will be there to collaborate once youâve each taken up that post.
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Youâll also attend termly âstudy toursâ to some of the best schools in the country.
These are structured, group visits, with opportunities to hear from leaders and get under the hood of how and why they make the decisions they do.
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Each term, youâll be set a âheadteacher taskâ which is practical and designed to develop your own understanding of how you will lead a school. There are no written assignments, but you will be expected to present your findings to the rest of your cohort.
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We kick off with a residential in September, where youâll meet your cohort, and spend time together exploring the challenges of the region, the assets in the communities that you serve, and the opportunities to improve education in the East of England.
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But itâs for everyone. Any school leader working in the region, or who is committed to leading a school in the region, is eligible.
The programme is supported and facilitated by the Reach Foundation, which has founded similar programmes in the South West, West Country and Yorkshire.
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Itâs a collaboration from 8 trusts in the region. Asset Education, Chiltern Learning Trust, the Diocese of Ely Multi Academy Trust, Meridian Trust, Sapientia, the Elliot Foundation, Unity Schools Partnership and Ormiston Academies Trust have come together to design and drive the initiative forward.
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Now, more than ever, we need headteachers who are relentless in improving the outcomes for children who need it the most.
Thatâs why weâre investing in the next generation of headteachers in the region.
People, we hope, like you.
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Headteachers are extremely well placed to address this challenge through improving educational outcomes.
But headteachers can also act as civic leaders, understanding the assets and needs of the community that they serve, and coordinating responses to meet specific challenges.
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And the gap is a big problem.
Children from underserved communities in the east of England enter primary school almost six months behind their more affluent peers, and the gap only grows from there.
By the end of KS4, disadvantaged pupils are on average two years behind their more affluent peers.
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So itâs more than a leadership course really.
Itâs a mission. A movement.
We believe that collection action is the only thing that will shift the dial on this for all children in the East of England.
No single headteacher is going to solve the disadvantage gap on their own.
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Youâll do this together.
A core principle of the programme is that knotty problems (like the regional educational disadvantage gap) require multifaceted solutions.
Nobody is as smart as everybody, and kids in the east of England stand a much better chance of school leaders are working together.
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Youâll attend group residentials, receive regular webinars with leading educational experts, visit some of the best schools in the country, complete headteacher âtasksâ like redesigning your approach to recruitment, & learn a ton about both your regional context & how this will shape your leadership
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When are you going to play the jingle I made for you
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Thanks for sharing Richard!
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I had to go over to promote something, and a brief glance showed me that the conversation over there is largely around whether brown people can be considered English. Nauseating.
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Most of all, itâs a really fun programme!
Youâll make great new friends and professional colleagues, find out a lot about what matters to you as a leader, see brilliant practice from around the country, and have the time and space to make sense of it all.