Best Practice

Successful school partnerships

We know that partnership can play an important role in school improvement, but what ingredients need to
be in place for it to work? Liam Donnison finds out

Maggie Farrar knows plenty about collaboration and partnership and the role it can play in driving forward school improvement.
As a former senior director at the National College for School Leadership, Ms Farrar had an instrumental role in developing and promoting collaboration and partnership approaches that are now becoming a common feature of the school landscape.

Ms Farrar, now an independent consultant with a focus on cluster-based school improvement, has contributed her thinking about partnerships to the National Professional Qualification now being developed and delivered by Outstanding Leaders Partnership.

Ms Farrar explained: “I was recently struck by a quote from Professor Alan Dyson at Manchester University on challenging patterns of inequality. He wrote that all schools, however good they are, will always fail some of the children some of the time and that no one school can ever hope to meet the needs of all staff, students, children and their families.

Register now, read forever

Thank you for visiting SecEd and reading some of our content for professionals in secondary education. Register now for free to get unlimited access to all content.

What's included:

  • Unlimited access to news, best practice articles and podcast

  • New content and e-bulletins delivered straight to your inbox every Monday and Thursday

Register

Already have an account? Sign in here