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• Make Your Future: celebrating craft in the classroom

  • When
    21 Nov 2019
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Thomas Tallis School, London SE3 9PX

  
  Make Your Future: celebrating craft in the classroom   

  November 21^st, 10am- 1pm

  Thomas Tallis School, London SE3 9PX

   
  

  Join the Crafts Council's growing movement to ensure hands-on making is an essential part of every child's education.

   

  We’re bringing together committed teachers, school leadership teams and education change-makers for a celebration of craft in the classroom— featuring quick-fire case studies, hands-on activity, young people's insights and lively debate. Lend your voice, enthusiasm and talent to our campaign and leave with the tools to reinvigorate craft in your school.

   

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  Join the Crafts Council's growing movement to ensure hands-on making is an essential part of every child's education

  
  About this Event   

  The Crafts Council campaigns for every child to have the chance to discover their practical abilities, develop their creative talents, and become a maker of the future.

  
  We need committed teachers, school leadership and education change-makers to lend their voices, enthusiasm and talent to our growing movement to keep craft in the classroom.

  
  If you believe that playing with clay, electro-etching and giant knit sculpture are central to developing young people's skills for the future, join us for a celebration of craft in the classroom.   

  Featuring quick-fire case studies, hands-on activity, and young people's insights, we'll dive into:

  • Craft as cross-curricular bridge connecting art, science and technology

  • The power of skills-based CPD to reconnect teachers with their creativity

  • The transformational potential of craft in special school settings

  • Craft as a career— the breadth of the craft sector and giving schools the tools to signpost and offer advice

  We know the cultural sector is behind us, so to avoid preaching to the choir we've ring-fenced the majority of tickets for teachers, executive heads and head teachers, curriculum leads, and education policy makers with the power to reignite craft in schools. Of course, our colleagues from the craft and creative sectors are welcome to attend too. We look forward to seeing you there!

   

  With thanks to Thomas Tallis School for kindly hosting us.

   

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• Master Class Training with Professor Bill Lucas - Creativity in Schools

  • When
    21 Nov 2019
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    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    University of Winchester Business School Room 007, West Downs Quarter, Romsey Road, Winchester, SO22 5HT

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   Come and join Professor Bill Lucas at his second Master Class this year

   

  November 21st 2019 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

   

  This master class will be themed around creativity in schools.

   

  Creativity is increasingly recognised by employers, researchers and educationalists as a core capability to be cultivated in schools. But how best do we do this when schools are organised around subject disciplines?

   

  Bill Lucas, co-chair of the new PISA 2021 Test of Creative Thinking and an authority on creativity, will draw on the recent research published by the OECD into Fostering Students' Creativity - http://www.oecd.org/education/fostering-students-creativity-and-critical-thinking-62212c37-en.htm - and the research he and his colleague Dr Ellen Spencer have been doing over the last 6 years to outline:

  • what creativity is in schools,
  • why it matters,
  • how it can be integrated into every aspect of school life, and
  • how it can be assessed. The session will offer all those attending practical strategies that they can use both at Primary and at Secondary levels.

   

  This master class is included in our Master Class Training Programme which is charged at £90 a year and includes 4 classes at The University of Winchester. Please contact eednet@winchester.ac.uk if you would like to join.
   

  Individual master class is chargeable at £25 per person 

   

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• Southgate Cluster: Coaching and Feedback Workshop

  • When
    20 Jan 2020
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    4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
  • Location
    Southgate School, Sussex Way, Cockfosters, EN4 0BL

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  South gate Cluster: Coaching and feedback workshop 

   

  A chance to bring along your work in progress, share it and receive feedback from your session facilitator and colleagues.
  
  This workshop is a follow on from 'Getting Started in Action Research' and will cover:

   

  * Reviewing your action research
  * Emerging issues 'clinic'
  * Expert advice on specific challenges
  * Reviewing your action research action plan
  * How to write up your action research
  

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• Schools of Tomorrow: Action Research Fellowship workshop

  • When
    30 Jan 2020
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    10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Bedford

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  Exclusively for School of Tomorrow: Fellowship workshop with Professor Bill Lucas 

  The day is intended particularly to help Fellowship lead staff develop their thinking and skills in planning and leading action-based research in order to support the stakeholder evaluation process and the production of impact studies in year 2 and beyond.

   

  Outline Programme

  1.       Introductions

  2.       Introduction to Expansive Education Network - with a particular focus on creativity - and how it meshes with SoTo

  3.      Introduction to action research

  4.      Issues of practice

  • a. focusing on a question
  • b. planning an intervention
  • c.  evaluation

  5. Exploring issues of leadership

    

  About Prof Bill Lucas

  Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning and Professor of Learning at the University of Winchester. Bill founded CRL with Guy Claxton in 2008. In addition to his work with CRL, Bill is a trustee of The English Project, and with Philip Pullman, a patron of the Pegasus Theatre in Oxford.

  Bill was recently appointed by the OECD as co-chair of the strategic advisory group overseeing the development of the PISA 2021 test of Creative Thinking.

   

  Bill is known internationally as a speaker on the subjects of learning, change, creativity, and leadership. He travels extensively to present key notes, most recently in Sydney, Philadelphia, Helskinki, Qatar, Melbourne, Auckland, Stockholm, Paris, Belfast, and Dubai.

   

  He is a prolific writer, and has authored and co-authored over forty books including recently:

  Educating Ruby: what our children need to learn (with Guy Claxton)

  Teaching Creative Thinking: Developing learners who generate ideas and can think critically (with Ellen Spencer)

   

  With Guy Claxton he is the creator of one of the biggest teacher researcher groups in the world:  the Expansive Education Network.

         

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• Salford cluster: Coaching & Feedback Workshop

  • When
    05 Mar 2020
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    3:45 PM - 5:45 PM
  • Location
    Sacred Heart R.C. Primary School & Heart Teaching School Alliance, Central Drive, Westhoughton, Bolton. BL5 3DU

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  A chance to bring along your work in progress, share it and receive feedback from your session facilitator and from colleagues

            
     This workshop is a follow on from 'Getting Started in Action Research' and will cover:

  • Reviewing your action research
  • Emerging issues 'clinic'
  • Expert advice on specific challenges
  • Reviewing your action research action plan       
  • How to write up your action research
                   

   

  
  

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• Great Science Share for Schools 2020

  • When
    16 Jun 2020

  https://www.greatscienceshare.org/#about-1
  

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• Southgate Cluster: Celebration and Presenting Findings

  • When
    29 Jun 2020
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    4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
  • Location
    Southgate School, Sussex Way, Cockfosters, EN4 0BL

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   Southgate cluster: Celebrating and Presenting Findings 

  • Presenting and celebrating the findings of your action research
                 
  • Learning from other colleagues and sharing ideas

  • Inviting other colleagues to learn about developing expansive dispositions in their students. 

  To prepare for this celebratory session.  Please present your findings with a short  5-10 presentation. This can be with a PowerPoint, poster or simply talking through your findings with the group.   

  
  Suggested structure
  1. My Context - logo, picture and headlines about your school and sentence on the group on which you are focusing

  2. The Issue - headline sentence for example - ‘Trying to create more resourceful learners’

  3. What the research says - key points

  4. My Research Question - ‘If I do x will y happen?

  5. My Project - key points listing what you did
  How you evaluated it, eg
  •  An initial and/or end-of intervention survey
  •  Participant  observation
  •  Interviews, and
  •  Field notes
  Then include any key charts, graphs, comments

  6.  Findings - key points

  7. What I learned - key points

   

  After this session you are given a report template to write to 1,500 – 3,000 words typically. All are then published on our website.
  http://expansiveeducation.net/Default.aspx?pageId=1730525
   
  Your tutor at eednet@winchester.ac.uk can provide any interim feedback and advice for you and your colleagues prior to the celebratory session.  Finished reports can be emailed to eednet@winchester.ac.uk 

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• Salford: Celebration and Presenting Findings

  • When
    06 Jul 2020
  •  
    3:45 PM - 5:45 PM
  • Location
    Sacred Heart R.C. Primary School & Heart Teaching School Alliance, Central Drive, Westhoughton, Bolton. BL5 3DU

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  Salford cluster: Celebrating and Presenting Findings    

  This is an opportunity to celebrate, share findings and learning from your research with other Expansive Education members. All members with research to share are welcome to attend   

  • Presenting the findings of your action research         
  • Learning from other colleagues
  • Inviting other colleagues to learn about expansive education.

  For further information on preparation required for this workshop please register.

   

  Any questions please email eednet@winchester.ac.uk

  
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