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Ilir Phillips
Secondary Transformation Team
Transforming Teaching & Learning in Kent: Education

Nurturing Creative & Autonomous Learners:
The Kent Secondary Strategy – Phase 2
To transform learning
To develop capacity and structures
To place schools at the heart of their communities
To design and develop the learning infrastructure

Nurturing Creative & Autonomous Learners:
The Kent Secondary Strategy – Phase 2
“Kent is in the forefront of local authorities developing
Academies and the first to act as a sponsor. We plan to
have a network of Academies throughout Kent, starting
in areas of deprivation, linked to the family of schools in
the area. Three submission have progressed to either
feasibility or implementation stages.”
Kent Secondary Strategy 2005
2009: 10 Academies open in Kent

Why Change?
What we are doing now does not meet the needs of
50% young people.
Many adult competences are developed after or
outside school e.g. reflection; project management; real
teamwork; real leadership; etc.
We know about multiple intelligences, but what are
schools really doing with the knowledge?
Current education was designed for a national
manufacturing economy… but we live in a rapidly
changing, global knowledge economy

Why Change?
We know that humans have preferred ways of
collecting information (visual; auditory; kinaesthetic),
but…
Why flog yourself every year to improve GCSEs by
another 2%? Be radical!
In short, the world has changed

The “Did you Know” video can be viewed at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHmwZ96_Gos

“Developing a really embedded educational vision
takes 18 months”
Mike Chapman, Headteacher, High Storrs School, Sheffield
Implementing it
- ensuring the words fit the music –
takes much longer

The Educational Process
Collaborative
Vision
Collaborative
Provision
Collaborative
Working
Wave
Wave
School
School
School
School
School
School
School
School
Learners
Community
Schools,
Healthy
Schools,
Sports
Extended
Schools
District
Consortia
Vocational
Centres,
Alternative
Provision
Local
Children’s
Services
Partnership
14-19
Planning
Fora
ICT Strategy
Area
Visions
Area
Area
Clusters,
Federations,
Education
Improvement
Partnerships

The Educational Process
We will work with the main sponsor to:
Inform them of the local educational perspective and
Kent’s Secondary strategy
Assist with the visioning process to ensure that the
education they plan to provide is fit for the 21 st century
By providing development opportunities
Advising the design group to ensure that emerging designs
represent the educational aspirations of the sponsor, KCC,
the area and the individual establishment
Assist with change management

Questions and challenges
Impact and outcome
Attainment and development
Wide range of opportunities for young people
Links to primary schools & progression beyond secondary
Links to support services
Inclusion/support for special needs
Vocational opportunities
Wider community role

Questions and Challenges
Learning and teaching
Stage not age
Schools within schools
Place of the subject
Role of teacher
Use of time
… and so on

Personalisation

Low Flexibility Layouts
Fixed class size
of 30 pupils
Teacher lectures
from a fixed point
Pupils passively
receive knowledge

High Flexibility Layouts
Traditional
teaching areas
Teacher as coach, Pupil as learner
Team
discussion areas
Project
Learning areas
Supports multiple
learning styles
Individual
study areas

Visualisation: St John’s Catholic Comprehensive School

Aims of the Educational Process
Academies are about
TRANSFORMING Secondary Education.
It is not just a building programme.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating
Video not included, but can be viewed at: http://www.kenttv.com/#PRG2240