Sat 19th May 2012
CONNECTING LEARNING
Connecting Learning is a solutions based organisation for school improvement that focuses on how young people learn and under which conditions and dynamics they learn best.
Connecting Learning is a solutions based organisation for school improvement that focuses on how young people learn and under which conditions and dynamics they learn best.
Connecting Learning has established strategic alliances and partnerships with several key associations and organisations working in the fields of leadership, design and new technologies. Through our professional networks and trusted alliances we can ensure that all programmes and services are informed by current best practice and that we can deliver a broader range of services for our clients.
Connecting Learning places high value in the power of professional networking and placing school leaders at the forefront of change to this end we have established strategic alliances with the Independent Academies Association (IAA). As part of this strategic alliance all IAA members receive a 5% discount on all Connecting-Learning programmes and services.
The IAA is delighted to have established a strategic alliance with Connecting Learning. Our partnership will add an essential element to the support available to new and existing academies in ensuring high quality learning experiences for all their students and achieving the greatest impact from available resources.
Academies have always been at the vanguard of the education system in terms of developing best learning practice and this partnership will help to maintain that position by providing important development opportunities for leaders and practitioners. Our respective organisations share a firm belief in the strength and effectiveness of professional networks and we are proud to be able to build on existing, longstanding partnerships in order to benefit the workforce and the children and young people whom we serve”.
Mike Butler, Former Chairman, Independent Academies Association
Connecting Learning are also pleased to announce that they are working with Northern Education as it heads up a leading edge network of private sector businesses who share the same values and goals to support school improvement. Connecting Learning will form part of the Northern Education Expert Network offering our expertise in Leadership, new technologies and design and the built environment to Northern Education and their clients.
Northern Education was formed in 2000 to support secondary schools on behalf of the DfES. They are now the leading consultancy dedicated to supporting improvements in services to children and young people. Northern Education now works nationally and regionally with government, local authorities, FE colleges, schools, academies, training providers and with independent organisations. For more information on Northern Education and their Expert Network please visit their website.
Connecting Learning has teamed up with IET Associates, a not for profit organisation, to create a new leadership programme-Exploiting Information Technology in Education, EXite. The EXite Leadership Programme has the backing of NAHT, ASCL and the IAA and will support leaders and their workforce in thinking through the major challenges facing schools in making effective use of new technologies, reviewing best practice and planning for sustainable change.
Keeping ICT up to date is expensive and school leaders cannot afford to waste resources. they need the right tools and information to strategically plan how they can use available technology to best improve teaching and learning. ASCL is delighted to support the EXite programme launch and we encourage our members to find out more.
Brian Lightman, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders.
The EXite Leadership Programme is designed to support leaders and their workforce to think through these issues, review best practice and plan for sustainable change. Designed by Connecting Learning and IET Associates, whose directors have unparalleled experience at national levels in delivering high-quality programmes that bring together the leadership agenda, technology potential and pragmatic, high-quality peer support.
NAHT positively welcomes this news. Members have seen that there is a gap since the ending of the excellent SLICT programme and NAHT are pleased to be engaged with EXite and is sure its members will gain great value from it. School leaders are looking to lead and manage technology well and will value the credibility of the two organisations behind this programme.
Russell Hobby, NAHT General Secretary
Hannah Jones, formerly with the National College for the Leadership of Schools, Colleges and Children's Services, and Mike Briscoe, previously at Becta, were both directors of the highly influential SLICT programme. Over seven years this national project reached more than 13,000 school leaders and developed a strong national and International reputation.
The e-Learning Foundation aims to reduce the effect of this "Digital Divide" by working with schools, parents and other stakeholders to ensure that all children have access to the learning resources that technology can make available, when and where they need them, both at home and at school. Launched as a registered charity in 2001, their aim is to bridge the digital divide by significantly increasing access to ICT for education, and specifically to ensure that every child in the UK, irrespective of background, should have access to technology for learning especially at home, working in partnership with schools, parents and businesses. Click here to visit the e-Learning Foundation website.
Connecting Learning has joined up with Surface to Air, award winning architects, to offer joint services including the 'Design My Learning Space' service that is free to schools and Academies.
Schools and Academies sign up and provide us with a basic brief. Then they receive:
Connecting Learning aim to deliver services that maximise the education impact of capital investment, regardless of size of budget. Please also see our Designing Learning Programme.
