A paradigm shift in leadership and governance across a family of schools in pursuit of radical change in curriculum provision and the culture of learning
Yewlands Family of Schools, Sheffield
Yewlands is developing, through a bottom-up evolutionary process, from the previous collaborative working across the 'family' of schools, to harder-edged proposals for new and sustainable leadership and governance arrangements.
Yewlands is a family of seven schools involving one secondary, one special and five primary, based in a challenging and mainly urban context on the northern edge of Sheffield. The schools have been working as an advanced collaborative for four years, including shared staffing, joint leadership appointments and cross-phase curriculum development projects. Their aspiration for the field trial is to construct a 21st century model of leadership and governance across the family. They describe this as a 'paradigm shift' in the leadership of the family, in succession planning and in the collective culture of learning.
Ambitious proposals are being driven forward by a partnership of headteachers, working as a family with the Local Authority. Facilitated sessions with The Bridge Change Leadership Framework gave impetus to their work, including the use of the To Be tool to define an emergent strategy. A Spring 2007 weekend conference for governors and senior leaders from the schools, attended by Sheffield's DCS, used Delta 6 to build a collective 'Living Vision' and to establish a strategic governance group across the family.
View the presentation that Sheffield shared at the Community of
Interest event at NCSL on Monday 17 September (available for download
below in both PDF and PowerPoint formats).
Sheffield - 17.09.07 (186 KB)
Sheffield - 17.09.07 (3,942 KB)
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