Cooperation or Competition?
How Teaching Schools can benefit
from working together
Lindsay Palmer, The Mead Teaching School Alliance
Fred Angus, Wiltshire Local Authority
6 June 2016
Plan
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Starting points: seeds of mistrust
The risks of isolation
Conditions for cooperation
Practical outcomes
Future direction
Misconceptions
“Teaching Schools will take us over”
“Joining a Teaching School Alliance is like becoming
a sponsored academy”
“Teaching Schools make a profit out of us to boost their provision
at our expense”
Isolation – the risks
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Duplication of provision, overlap
Missed opportunities
Questioning of the moral purpose
Distrust
Conditions for practical cooperation
• Absolute transparency
• Group membership
• Clear protocols
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To be open about being in competition when offers overlap
To try to adapt offers in the light of the joint provision – to work towards
equitable access
To respect intellectual property and copyright
To ask permission and acknowledge resources and ideas that have come
from other providers
To avoid promoting a product by negative reference to other providers’
products
Leads/managers ensure that their colleagues involved in providing CPD
and school support, agree to the above
All partners will host the Provision Map on their individual websites
Practical outcomes
• Provision Map
– CPD
– School support
• Coordinated school support bids – RI schools
• Joint publicity
– TS page on LA services site http://www.wiltslt.co.uk/
– Joint presentations at Primary Heads Forum
– TS flyers via LA
• PR
Future direction
• LA priorities/challenges – Teaching Schools as part of the
solution
– Form groups of practitioners around a theme
– Common CPD/conference calendar on key themes
• More likelihood of TSs accessing funding if joined up bids
Membership
• LA – Wiltshire Local Authority http://www.wiltslt.co.uk/
• TMTSA - The Mead Teaching School Alliance (Trowbridge)
http://www.themeadteachingschool.org.uk/
• NWTSA - the North Wiltshire Teaching School Alliance (Wootton
Bassett) http://nwtsa.org.uk/
• PLTSA – Pickwick Learning Teaching School Alliance (Corsham)
www.pltsa.co.uk
• ATSA – Avon Teaching School Alliance (Malmesbury)
http://www.malmesbury.wilts.sch.uk/home/avontsa/
• ETSA - Excalibur Teaching School Alliance (Marlborough)
http://excalibur.org.uk/
• STS – Swindon Teaching Schools
www.swindonteachingschool.org.uk