Welcome to the Secondary Transformation website

About SECTT

The Secondary Transformation Team (SecTT) is a small group comprising of either recently serving headteachers, some of whom are full time in the team, or serving Kent headteachers and school leaders seconded to work with schools across Kent.

The team is charged with promoting and supporting the implementation of the Kent Secondary Strategy. As this forms the educational vision for Building Schools for the Future (BSF) in Kent, SECTT members work alongside schools involved in this programme to ensure that the visions around which new facilities will be built will meet the needs of learners in the C21st.

It is essential to underline that whilst members of SECTT and others can support and assist in the visioning to transform learning, transformation will only take place when those in the schools and the classrooms make it happen by a radical change to their behaviour and approach to learning.

In other words school leaders, teachers, other adults, and (perhaps most importantly of all) learners will need to develop the sorts of relationships with each other that will allow the learning – as opposed to the teaching - to become the focus of the work of schools. This will require the learners to be given the language and the permission to take a proper responsibility for their learning.

About the SECTT website

This site has been developed to support the aims and objectives of the Kent Secondary Strategy and, by extension, the Kent Building Schools for the Future and Academies Programme. The site contains two main themes:

• Lessons Learned provides an overview of some of the broader aspects of educational transformation and draws on the experiences of seeing at first-hand how schools are organised in other countries.
• Developing "Deep" Practice provides examples of developing practice in Kent schools and is organised in line with the four deep categories of Personalised learning developed by Professor Hargreaves and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.