“It was an excellent opportunity to work on an objective view of an area of our organisation which we had identified for development. The process of working with other local colleagues really helped us to clarify our thinking and has significantly influenced our strategic planning.”
London South Teaching School Hub is one of only a handful of groups designated as a hub for the Education Development Trust’s Schools Partnership Programme, a cluster-based model of mutual school-to-school accountability.
Unlike other peer review models, which use a ‘mocksted’ approach, our Peer Review programme is an invitational model. School leaders identify an area of practice they are keen to develop, and invite colleagues to explore a specific set of evidence. After the review, a trained Improvement Facilitator leads a workshop designed to support the school in developing an action plan to respond to feedback and help them achieve their goals.
Since 2019, 37 schools and nurseries have participated in our Peer Review programme, to overwhelmingly positive feedback about its benefits, both for leaders’ own professional development and for their schools. The programme has enabled those participating to build deeper professional trust and to secure improvements in their own and each other’s schools.
Participants in our Peer Review sessions have cited a number of benefits, including:
What is involved?
Participation in Peer Review includes:
Who should attend?
Participating schools need to train as a minimum, the headteacher as a Lead Reviewer and two to three other senior leaders to be Reviewers and/or Improvement Facilitators.
Training
Review
Cost:
Partner schools join for free.
Non-partner schools: £600
Returning non-partner schools: £350
Sign up
To register your interest in joining our 2022-23 cohort, please contact us below: