High Performing People,
Transforming Cultures
High Performing People,
Transforming Cultures
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OLEVI returned to the UAE, this May, to facilitate a bespoke ten-day programme for the RAK Academy. Twenty-five teaching staff, from across the academy’s three schools, and their senior leadership, came together to further develop their understanding of how the OLEVI ethos and coaching approach, has a positive impact on developing quality teaching and learning. The ten-day…
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Since the development of the OLEVI Hubs, within the Central South Consortium (part of the Central South Wales Challenge), great strides have been made in developing collaborative networks of schools able to share their knowledge, expertise and best practice. The Hubs have implemented strategies for leadership, teaching and learning, closing the gap and curriculum support…
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As schools experience the positive impact the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Programme (OTAP) is having on their teaching/learning assistants – and the resulting benefit to their pupils – there has been an increase in headteachers, teachers and TAs wanting to become facilitators of the programme. The Outstanding Teaching Assistant Programme Train the Trainers (OTAP TTT) gives schools the ability to facilitate the…
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This spring saw the launch of a new OLEVI programme – The OLEVI Concept Day. Aimed specifically at the non-teaching staff who have important roles in the successful running and promoting of our programmes within their schools and alliances. The programme will enable these key people to fully understand the ethos and language of the OLEVI programmes, ensuring that key…
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Tendring Technology College host OLEVI Conceptualisation Day with a group of Executive Heads, Headteachers and SLTs from six schools, three secondary and three primary, from within their TSA. The day provided the opportunity to have a taster of the OLEVI Learning Models – and their benefits – to schools looking to improve the quality of Teaching and Learning within their own…
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Lead QA Consultant, Karen Hughes, shares what recent QA visits have told us about the wider impact of being an OLEVI Facilitation School During a QA visit, the QA consultant, along with the school’s facilitators, the project manager and the headteacher, explores the impact being a facilitation school is having on the school itself. Some…
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Earlier this month our DOC Leaders came together for our first DOC Conference Day to explore the question: What does it mean to be an effective DOC? In typical OLEVI style we unpicked the DOCs’ role in engaging schools in the OLEVI ethos and programmes, and reflected on the impact and effectiveness DOCs have on…
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This May, Richard Lockyer and Eddie Hannifan facilitated Coaching and Leadership, and an Intensive Outstanding Teacher Programme (IOTP) to the staff of the RAK Academy’s schools in the United Arab Emirates. This was the culmination of working in partnership with Ian Campbell, Headteacher of the RAK Academy Secondary School, to ascertain the Academy’s particular needs,…
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Julie Willows, Headteacher, Newlaithes Infant School, shares how becoming involved with the OTP has helped her school and others in Cumbria grow. “We became involved with the Outstanding Teacher Programme following feedback from Ofsted who suggested we made more teaching outstanding. Having undertaken research into what CPD was available; I decided OTP would be perfect…
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We are all familiar with the saying “You can take a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” So, what do you need to do to make them thirsty enough to want to drink? The coaching ethos which underpins our programmes, is helping create a culture within schools where teachers and learners are…
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OLEVI’s Outstanding Leaders in Education programme (OLE) is enhancing effective leadership by providing a forum and structure in which to unpick individual schools’ needs, and creating a professional audit, which builds on generic skills, to support and grow success. Ros Bartlett, Director of Teaching and Learning, at our Earls High School DOC, shares with us…
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Who knows the quality of Teaching & Learning best in your school? It could well be your Teaching Assistants, says Gabriel Calwell, Director of Teaching and Learning, at Bedford High School. “With Teaching & Learning at the heart of our school, we provide a range of initiatives and CPD programmes, the OTP included, to our…