Transforming Learning In Kent Schools

Much of the transformation work being undertaken in Kent schools, both within the planning and development of BSF and in schools where the personalised agenda had already started, has focussed on models like the small school movement in the US.

This movement does not manifest itself uniformly. Numbers in the schools range from under 200 to a 400 maximum. Some schools exist entirely independently whereas others are ‘schools within schools’ coexisting inside the same building or on the same campus. Apart from their size the distinguishing characteristic of these schools is that they have the necessary freedoms to operate outside the normal curriculum framework and employment conditions of the State. Other aspects of the programmes included seminars with leading educational researchers in higher education such as Stanford University in California and Brown University in Providence Rhode Island.

Questions to Aid Self-Evaluation

• Are we exploiting the opportunities presented by workforce remodelling to offer our students more frequent personal contact with their teachers and other adults working in the school? 

• Are we thinking imaginatively about the use of existing resources to improve the physical aspects of the learning environment?

• Are we thinking far enough ahead about the potential for our school of the Building Schools for the Future programme?

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