1. Reading Paper discussion – Week 4
Innovations in curriculum

2. Agenda Discuss the project Components of innovation
Stimulus for innovation
Stimulating innovation
Developing a strategy for innovation
Implementing innovation
Evaluating the innovation
Summary and key lessons learns
My favourite kahoot 

3. Asking the right questions – to drive innovation
A bit about the project – NCSL National College for School Leadership and the QCA Qualifications and Curriculum Authority were visited by schools leaders. They visited 20 schools under NCSL
What difference does your school wants to make to its young people and why?
What has the school done?
How did the school make these changes?
What was the role of leadership?
How does the school know it has achieved what it set out to do?

4. Components of innovation
Central to these components was:
Culture of creativity
Culture of self evaluation
Stimulus for innovation
Influential personal factors that bound the components include values, vision and professional duty
Stimulating innovation
Creative thinking, Reconceptualising, Calculating risks
Strategy for innovation
What to take into account - Scale, scope and timeframe
Implementing innovation
Putting the innovation into practice
Evaluating the impact of the innovation
Whether innovation has made a difference – e.g. measuring pupil outcomes –

5. #Stimulus for innovation
Policy initiatives
Self evaluation
External inspection
Challenging thinking
Reform agenda act as drivers
For curriculum innovation
Eg - Academy schools in UK,
ECM (every child matters)
Gaining from external
Sources like research repositories
Or professional networks
Need to make
challenges within
their own provision
When curriculum innovations are driven by external inspections

6. #Stimulating innovation
Central theme
Through consultative approach
Emphasize on doing things creatively and differently
Consultative approach
Question the existing practices
Formulate a strategy to evaluate outcomes
What do leaders do to stimulate innovations ?
Think creative and challenge the assumptions
Gain commitment and buy-in through dialogue internally
Communicate their vision to external stake holders
Calculate risks in case of high accountability
Identify potential champions of innovation

7. Thinking about evaluation
Developing a Strategy for innovation
Capacity
Human and Physical resources
Structures – how will the decision impact the existing set up
Sustainability
Approaches to fit and reflect in the medium and long term
Required training and development opportunities
Communication
Seeking view on student’s development
Informing parents that innovation was set in the context of national agenda
Thinking about evaluation
Assessing the impact has innovation made on student achievement ?
Identifying the structures can be put in place to ensure evaluation informs future reforms

8. Implementing the evaluation
Support those who implement innovation
What does it mean ?
Strategy is translated into actions
Seen in two parts
informal support and dialogue regular feedback meetings to discuss the progress of the innovation against desired outcomes
providing relevant, up-to-date resources
providing regular in-service training
encouraging opportunities to carry out research linked to the developments
providing training for new staff members to develop sustainability
providing opportunities for ongoing, learning centred reflection and dialogue
linking innovation with performance management
Lead the innovations
clear messages of trust that empower those leading to take responsibility and ownership of developments
financing of professional development opportunities such as school visits or conference
financing of strategies and resources that aid the innovation in taking a foothold

9. Evaluating the impact
Tools for collecting data – Questionnaires, opinion surveys and interviews
Outcomes indicators to measure reforms ECM (Every child matters) objectives - (eg levels of engagement, increased attendance and post-16 retention rates, reduced behavioural problems and exclusion rates)
Stakeholders that could contribute to evaluation (eg pupils, teachers, parents)

10. Questions and Kahoot time