In a self improving school system, more control and responsibility passes to the local level in a spirit of mutual aid between school leaders and their colleagues, who are morally committed to imaginative and sustainable ways of achieving more ambitious and better outcomes.
David Hargreaves - Creating a Self Improving School System - 2010
About EMSYH
A Message from Chris Wheatley & Chris Abbott, our local TSC Members
“We continue to be inspired by the work that the system across the EMSYH region does to improve outcomes for all our learners. We are making progress, but we know that there is always more to do. Collectively and individually we strive to improve life chances for all children across the region by increasing the number of learners in a great school, improving and accelerating outcomes, diminishing the difference and narrowing the gap.
We continue to have gaps that are difficult to shift, and we are working in uncertain times. There are however some things that we do know that we need to keep at the heart of our activity throughout the coming months.”
We know that:
- if what we do is right for our learners, then it is the right thing for us to do;
- we mustn’t get blown over by the wind of policy change, that we must retain our moral purpose in what we do;
- we are committed to working together to make a real difference to our learners and that we need to combat the collaboration v competition challenge;
- we can deliver in the face of uncertainty and that we have a track record of sheer hard work and determination to do right by our schools and learners;
- connectivity of all our schools into the system is key to improvement for us all and that avoiding isolation is a key part of sustainability through our improvement journey;
- we all complement and add value to what each of us we do, and we need to continue to grow and develop new skills and expertise and nurture the next generation of system leaders;
- we have specific geographical, population and outcome areas that need to improve;
- we need to refine our support offers and target the capacity that we have to respond and grow additional capacity where it is most needed;
- we are constantly challenged to evidence the impact of our work on learner outcomes with increasing robustness;
- we need to be ‘up for change’ and that maintaining the ‘status quo’ is not an option;
- Whatever comes next, we are committed to improving life chances for all children across the region by increasing the number of learners in at great schools, improving and accelerating outcomes, diminishing the difference and narrowing the gap.
“Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and, as always, we will take the opportunity that comes with change to review, reflect, reframe and re-energise.”