Delivery Partner Conference 2024

WHAT TO EXPECT •

Visit The Sofa Diary Room. Consider these questions before entering: What anchors you and your organisation to the UCL Centre for Educaional Leadership?

What do you enjoy about facilitating professional learning (either directly, or indirectly through your leadership)?

How does our unique partnership help us to shape professional learning cultures in times of change?

INTRODUCTION Welcome to the UCL Annual Conference for Delivery Partners, 2024 This third annual conference has been designed to bring Delivery Partners from across our International Learning System together to consider our roles in shaping professional learning cultures in times of change.

This year, we aim to draw on, and learn from the authentic, lived experiences of stakeholders on our programmes and consider how we can strengthen professional learning cultures within our networks to maximise impact.

As in previous years, there will be keynote input from both UCL and Delivery Partner colleagues, many of whom have been involved in the design of the programme as part of the Conference Working Group.

The conference will support you to:

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Boom Whacking!

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UCL Bingo

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That Unicycle Again

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"Talking Tins"

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360⁰ Camera

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Profiles and Case Studies

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Learn from the authentic, lived experiences of stakeholders on our programmes, using these to further anchor practice and develop professional learning cultures across your network.

Celebrate your organisational distinctiveness and sharpen your shared vision.

Navigate change effectively, refuelling your practice through engaging with thought-provoking research.

Identify sustainable ways to build capacity.

VENUE: Leonardo Royal Hotel London, Tower Bridge.

45 Prescot Street, E1 8GP London. 15 minutes’ walk from the Tower of London. View map.

THE PROGRAMME Day 1 - Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17.30 Registration and drinks reception 17.45 Welcome

How can we shape professional learning cultures in times of change?

Professor Qing Gu, Professor of Leadership in Education and Director of UCL Centre for Educational Leadership. (CEL) A welcome on behalf of IOE Professor Susan O'Neill - Head, Department of Learning and Leadership, IOE Getting involved Hilary Adli, Director, Early Career Framework, UCL 18:45 ‘Creating harmony through sound’

Main course

UCL Bingo Katie Dallender and Louise Astbury – East Manchester TSH

Dessert

The Power of The Programmes Walk

Nadia Dellagana-Campbell and Nancy KarmaliBelmonte, Programme Leaders, UCL

Coffee and petit fours

Secret phrases. The big reveal!

Rajia Sultana, Samrah Rizvi, Shamim Sobur, Lina Iordanaki, CEL Programme Managers 21.30 Brief closing remarks and arrangements for tomorrow Jonathan Dale. Director of Professional Development, CEL

19.30 Dinner (with between course table activities - below)

22.00 End of day 1 Secret Phrases Don't forget to visit the 360⁰ camera

Starter

Uni/Cycle – Discovering your authentic voice.

Dr. Andy Hodgkinson, Associate Professor (Teaching), UCL

THE PROGRAMME Day 2 - Thursday, 23 May 2023 06.30 Breakfast Located in the main restaurant

10.35 Keynote 2: Embracing change through organisational learning: Where teachers stay and how they thrive Professor Qing Gu, Professor of Leadership in Education and Director of CEL

09.00 Registration and refreshments 10.55 Reflection and discussion In the Gallery Louisa Horner, CATS Global 09.30 Welcome 11.15 Coffee break Jonathan Dale, Director of Professional Development, CEL 11.40 ‘Talking Tins’ - What are the characteristics of 09.40 The programme for the morning

effective professional learning cultures in schools Lizzie Hawkins and Charlie Kelsey, Sussex Coast that help teachers and teacher leaders to thrive?

Schools Alliance Jen Fiddaman, Patrick Garton, Adam Arnell, Oxfordshire TSH 09.45 Introduction to keynote speaker 1

Greg Ross, Associate Professor, (Teaching), UCL and Dr. Polly Glegg, Programme Leader, UCL

09.50 Keynote 1: Empowering teachers through research informed professional development Professor Graham Handscomb, Honorary Professor, UCL

12.10 As Delivery Partners, how do we support schools to create these cultures in order to maximise the impact of our programmes Stephen Calladine-Evans, Programme Leader, UCL and Joanne Calladine-Evans, Programme Leader, UCL

12.45 Lunch Located in the main restaurant 10.10 Reflection activity Greg Ross, Associate Professor, (Teaching), UCL and Dr. Polly Glegg, Associate Professor, (Teaching), UCL

10.30 Introduction to keynote speaker 2 Louisa Horner, CATs Global

13.30 The programme for the afternoon

Stephanie Bingham, Director of NETSP

THE PROGRAMME

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Qing Gu BA (Hons) MA PhD FRSA 13.35 Building professional learning cultures in schools: Case studies Professor Qing Gu is Director of Richard Harrison, Associate Professor (Teaching), the UCL Centre for Educational UCL and Beth Billington, Programme Leader, UCL with Leadership and Professor of Leadership in Education. She is the - Louise Dwyer, T&L Lead and Facilitator, Teach West Past Chair of the British Association London TSH of Comparative and International - Liam Anderson, Induction Tutor, Berkshire TSH Education (BAICE),experience. Co- Lesley Dale, ECF Lead, Milton Keynes Education Editor of Teachers and Teaching: Partnership Theory and Practice, Associate Editor of 14.25 The Art of Facilitation – How can we engage International Journal of Educational facilitators in continual professional dialogue about Development, a member of the Research Standing Committee of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies their practice?

(WCCES), and a member of the Research Evidence and Elaine Long - Associate Professor (Teaching), UCL Impact Panel for the Leadership College for UK Government. and Helen Bellinger, Exchange TSH and Associate She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre Programme Leader, CEL for Leadership and Change (APCLC) and Honorary Professor 15.50 Reflection and takeaways in Delivery Partner in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the groups Education University of Hong Kong.

Mark Quinn, Associate Professor, (Teaching), UCL and Professor Gu has directed and co-directed many government Kate Barry, Programme Leader, UCL and research council funded projects in the areas of teacher professional development, school improvement, and systemic 16.10 UCL concluding remarks reform and change. She is currently leading a £1.9m UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded Jonathan Dale, Director of Professional Development, CEL project Schools as Enabling Spaces to Improve Learning and 16.20 A response from Delivery Partners Health-Related Quality of Life for Primary School Children in Rural Communities in South Africa. Some of her books have Rebecca Annand, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Spanish.

Infinite Learning UAE and Liz Cullis - Vice Chair of ECF Professor Gu featured in Elsevier and Stanford University's Governance Board and Director of Balcarras TSH 2023 list of the world's most-cited scholars in the field of social science, ranking her in the top 2% of scholars in that field.

16.30 End of conference

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Professor Graham Handscomb Graham is Honorary Professor with University College London (UCL) and Visiting Professor at University of Bolton and Durham University. Previously, Professor of Education and Dean of The College of Teachers and was Professor in Residence with Young Epilepsy. He has an extensive career of senior leadership of local authorities and schools and twenty years teaching experience. Graham has made a considerable contribution to the development of school-based practitioner enquiry and pioneered the concept of the Research Engaged School. He wrote the criteria to establish the national Research Mark Award for the National Foundation for Educational Research.

Graham is a member of the DfE Faith Schools Providers Group. He was member of the National College for School Leadership Networked Learning Communities Assessment Panel, and member of the Government’s Policy Steering Group on Mentoring and Coaching.

Graham is an educational consultant working with schools, Teaching Schools Alliances and Trusts throughout the UK. He has also a range of international experience including developing teacher and leadership development programmes in the UAE and in Wuxi and Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. Fellow of numerous universities and organisations and was a senior member of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

Graham's research projects include: carrying out NFER research into Highly Effective leadership in Children’s

Centres, analysing its findings and wrote the system leadership part of the published report. He co-authored a major literature review entitled: School-University Partnerships: Fulfilling the Potential.

He is Editor of Professional Development Today and on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including Creative Teaching and Learning, and the Journal of Contemporary English Teaching and Learning in Non-English-Speaking Countries. He recently became the Editor of a new international journal: Quality Education for All which is particularly focused on ensuring access to quality education worldwide.

Recent book chapters include: Evidence Use, Research Engaged Schools and the Concept of an Ecosystem (with David Godfrey); Professional Learning and Research and Between a Rock and a Hard Place which focused on social workers. Recent books include (co-edited): The ResearchInformed Teacher Revolution: A Handbook for the 21st Century Teacher; The Power of Professional Learning Networks – Traversing the Present; Transforming the Future; and The Ideas-Informed Society: Why We Need It and How To Make It Happen.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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