Introduction
to Croydon Education Improvement Partnership (EIP)
“The next phase of educational reform will need new
methods of delivering excellence and equity in a system that
responds to the diverse needs of individual learners and gives
schools autonomy to create local solutions. Teachers and schools
will need to work together – and networks are a powerful
organisational form. School-to-school networks offer a foundation
for genuine transformation based on the knowledge embedded in
practice.”
Croydon Education Improvement Partnership
(EIP) recognises the increasing importance of
networks for innovation and information exchange and shares commitment
to the value and importance of networking and partnership. The
Group acknowledges that school isolation inhibits organisational
learning and, as a consequence, limits the learning of children
and staff.
The EIP will set up, sustain
and improve networks, for professional development and support
and for service provision, that are flexible, responsive, inclusive
and meet identified school improvement and service priorities of
members.
The EIP will use its central resources to support networking and
partnership within an agreed framework of best practice and accountability
to the Partnership for outcomes and for sharing learning.
The Partnership Group will maintain a strategic overview of the
networks it supports, holding participating schools to account
for their use of Partnership resources and for maintaining approaches
to networking that represent the most effective emerging practice.
Regular reports, presentations or publications from networks will
enable learning to be shared.
The Group will ensure that each sponsored network
- has a clear purpose, an appropriate form and structure and
effective leadership and management
- focuses on improving pupil learning
- creates new opportunities for adult learning
- encourages innovation and risk-taking
- provides mutual support and challenge
- supports a concept of leadership that is not linked to status,
experience or hierarchy but enhances leadership capacity and
empowers people at all levels to do things;
- develops communication networks to ensure wide involvement
and effective information sharing within and beyond the Group.
“Networks are the most compelling organisational form
of our time, re-shaping the activities of families, governments
and businesses. They are increasingly fundamental to any successful
enterprise and they challenge our notions of leadership.” Valerie
Hannon
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