The pandemic strengthened working relationships between eight Scottish local authorities, leading to more willingness to collaborate and to learn new approaches to teaching practice. That’s the finding of a recent evaluation report into the work of the West Partnership, Scotland’s largest Regional Improvement Collaborative by the University of Glasgow’s Robert Owen Centre researchers. University researchersContinue reading “Research shows pandemic strengthened LAs’ willingness to collaborate”
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Teacher collaboration – improvements in skills development, writing, health and wellbeing and more
West Partnership (WP) RIC Collaborative Action Research (CAR) and ROC Case Studies How does collaborative action research (CAR) work in Scottish schools? The Robert Owen Centre Team at the university of Glasgow has supported the West Partnership Regional Improvement Collaborative’s learning system since its beginning. This has been mainly through the development and progression ofContinue reading “Teacher collaboration – improvements in skills development, writing, health and wellbeing and more“
Work with the West Partnership
The new school year kicked off in mid-August and the Robert Owen Centre (ROC) team is once more working closely with the West Partnership (WP) RIC to evaluate the work it does with teachers and other practitioners across the west of Scotland. The West Partnership, as Scotland’s biggest regional improvement collaborative, takes in 35 perContinue reading “Work with the West Partnership”
Review of regional collaboration in education finds many positives
/*! elementor – v3.5.4 – 26-01-2022 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block;width:var(–img-width)}.elementor-widget-image a img{width:100%}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block;width:var(–img-width)} In December, the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) published a review of Scotland’s Regional Improvement Collaborations (RICs). Scotland’s six RICs were set up in early 2018, bringing together the education departments of local governments in theContinue reading “Review of regional collaboration in education finds many positives”
ICSEI Congress 2022
/*! elementor – v3.5.3 – 18-01-2022 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block;width:var(–img-width)}.elementor-widget-image a img{width:100%}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block;width:var(–img-width)} The International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) ran its second virtual congress on 5-6 and 10-11 January 2022, hosted by the ICSEI board (of which Professor Chris Chapman is president) and Norway’s LearnLab. Presentations at the congress addressed collaborationContinue reading “ICSEI Congress 2022”
Education survey finds encouraging results for collaborative practices
The Network for Social and Educational Equity undertook a survey of educational professionals in the west of Scotland. The survey is part of work we are doing to evaluate the effectiveness of the West Partnership Regional Improvement Collaborative, Scotland’s biggest RIC in terms of the number of schools and pupils. It gave us a snapshotContinue reading “Education survey finds encouraging results for collaborative practices”