Overview of Creative Agent Sharing, Reflection & CPD 2010-11 for CM Staff & Agents

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Overview of Curious Minds Sharing, Reflection & CPD

2010-2011

Next year, from 2010 to 2011, Curious Minds is developing the following two strands of learning for staff and the wider Creative Agent (CA) team:

1. Five CA Sharing and Reflection days. This is the new name for the 'CPD' daysthat Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) funds Curious Minds to deliver each year. Each day will involve Creative Agents in facilitating sessions onareas such as brokerage, inspiring partnerships, evaluation and the future

direction of Curious Minds and Creative Agents. Each day will include peer learning sessions in small 'Agent Pods', coordinated by members of the CA teamand focusing on how we facilitate evaluation within schools.

2. Two seminars that will allow us to learn from external experts. Currently we areresearching speakers and facilitators who can help us explore creativedocumentation of learning and the latest educational policy.

CCE Development Fund and Creative Agent Pods

Curious Minds will use a CCE CA Development Fund to increase the effectiveness of CA and Curious Minds reflection and peer learning. The objectives are to:

y Recruit six CA Pod Coordinators (three from each area) to plan Agent Podssessions for each Sharing and Reflection day.

y Provide CPD for Coordinators on methods of facilitating sharing, learning andactive listening, that promote open questioning and ownership by CAs (e.g. Action Learning, Appreciative Inquiry and Solutions -focused coaching)

y Provide time during paid Sharing and Reflection (CPD) days for agents to focuson evaluation in small 'communities of practice' or 'Pods'. This will help themdevelop knowledge, skills, innovation and risk taking in evaluation processesand improve the quality of evidence of impact.

y Deliver two optional seminars: one on documenting learning in collaborationwith creative practitioners; one on educational context and policy.

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Enable PMs to visit more schools, write more case studies, be moreentrepreneurial and develop partnerships that use our own facilitation expertise.

y Pay Coordinators to facilitate the final Sharing and Reflection day, with all AgentPods sharing learning, hearing from School Coordinators and practitioners (?)and discussing how to disseminate impact and advocate our work.

y Fund a North West wide celebration event.

y Disseminate ideas/learning through forums (blog as they chat in Pods/wireless).



EVENT 9:30 - 13:00 14:00-17:00

1st Sharing & Reflection Day:Brokerage All CAs/CM PMsMon 20 September (M);Wednesday 22 September (L)Venue tbc

y y

2nd Sharing and Reflection Day: Inspirational Partnerships Mon 15 November (Merseyside);

Tue 16 November (Lancashire).Venue League of Welldoers/Gujurat Hindu Society

9.30 for 10.00Lunch at 13:00Pods 14:00-17:00

Jude Bird facilitates a panel of inspirational partners:Merseyside

y James Kerfoot

y Andy O'Brien

y Mark Burns

y Lizzie Smears

y Roger Hill

y Gerard/Bernard/Phil/Paul D?

y Linda Moore/John Stephens?

Lancashire

y Andy O'Brien

y Pat Cochrane

y Mark Burns

y Roger Hill

y Angela Aspinal-Livesey - Hillside& St John's?

y Julie Bradley ± Padiham StLeonards

y Judith Williams ± Peel Park

y Liz Beaumont ± Cedars Infants

y Mandy ± Bradley Primary

y Clayton Jackson fromMorecambe Road.

Pod Coordinatros facilitate 1st Agent Pod meeting:How are you planning for

evaluation? How is your evaluation methodology working?How can we support each other?

OPTIONAL SEMINAR 1 -CREATIVE DOCUMENTATIONMon 17 January - Venue tbc(Manchester Cornerstone)

Agents to develop ways of supporting schools to use beautiful,inspiring and effective methods of documenting learning.

Dr. Helen Manchester, Faculty of Education and Language Studies,Child and Youth Studies ResearchGroup, The Open University. PaulMain, Merseyside Creative Agent.

Helen and Paul facilitate aninteractive session on using ICT anddigital media for evaluation.

Paul Merrick and Alison Unsworthfrom BALTIC arts facilitate aworkshop on creative evaluation.

3rd Sharing & Reflection Day:Agents share practice on how

they are documenting learning. Mon 24 January (M); Tue 25January (L).Venue tbc

CM team/agents feed back onCreative Documentation Seminar -

what did we learn?Merseyside: Emma Bramley present'Mantle of the Expert'.Sheila Large present Reflect, andhow she is documentingconversations.Lancashrie: Naomi Whitman presenthow she is docuemntaing

conversations.

2nd Agent Pod meeting

Develop sustainability beyondproject.Develop effective creativemethods.

OPTIONAL SEMINAR 2 -EDUCATIONAL POLICYMon 21 February - Venue tbc(Cornershtone, Liverpool HopeEverton?)

Latest educational policy, Bill Lucas Latest educational policy, BillLucas

4th Sharing & Reflection Day:Curious Minds Mon 21 March (M); Tue 22 March(L).Venue tbc

Chris May facilitates follow on fromSpring 2010 'Big Ideas' day - whathave we achieved together? Whereare we going next? How will CAscontinue to work with us?

3rd Agent Pod meeting

What are we capturing in our µforms¶? Identify and clarifyimpact. Prepare for end forms.



5th Sharing and Reflection Day:Where next? Mon 16 May (M); Tue 17 May(L).Venue tbc

MALIT: How can CAs developpractice beyond CP?

4th Agent Pod meeting

Pod coordinators facilitate Pods toidentify ways to disseminatelearning and impact highlightingexciting work that's happened thisyear, and how the Pods havebeen helpful.

Planning & Preparation for theCelebration and Dissemination Day

June/July 2011Curious Minds office

Decide best structures, resources &sessions for exciting, interactive

sharing of practice; help CAs focuson:(a)outcomes, (b) how CP haveachieved them and (c) how CP haveevidenced them and (d) the value of the Pods. Promote deep learning/sustainable practice and transition of CAs from CP/transfer of skills.

Dissemination and Celebration

Event All CAs and PMs (+ some SCs andpractitioners?)July 2011Venue tbc - need huge space for allM and L people!

All 6 Pods, across Lancs and Mside,

share and celebrate impact.

Consolidate how the Pods/CCE

CA development fund has helpedagents achieve giood evaluationpractice

An extra Curious Minds Day Agents, schools, practitioners - bigparty - underspend last year.

CONTACT DETAILS

All emailed either 9 or 10 August

Name/Post Contact details/expertise Availability/Cost

Helen Manchester, Research

Associate, Centre for Childhood

Development & Learning

E: [email protected]

Focus on innovative use of

ICT/digital media within CP,

emphaisis on using ICT for

evaluation

Can do Mon 24 Jan (Liv),

Tue 25 Jan (Preston). Fee

- £200 for each half day

workshop inc prep not

travel.

Jonathan Hewitt, Principal Adviser

Primary Group, Lancashire School

Effectiveness Service

T: 01257 516 160; E:

[email protected]

David Moore

Bill Lucas, Centre for Real World

Learning,

E: [email protected] 1.5 days - conf facilitator

for whole day - creativity

and learning - £2000-3000.

Mon 21 Feb -ed policy

Gill Williams - contacted Joanne

Hitchmough, Senior Quality

Officer, Liverpool Early Years

Service

E:

[email protected]

Mark Burns, Senior Consultant,

MALIT; 07969 917 068

E: [email protected]

CAs developing practice beyond CP

Can do Mon 16 May -

check Tue 17 May - £750

Helen Burns CP N/E (was baltic)



Lucy Smith [email protected]

Paul Collard

Ken Robinson

Tanya Byron

Charlie Leadbetter

Guy claxton

Michael Gove

CCE people

Glen - cost-effective ways of recording/getting media coverage

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Overview of Creative Agent Sharing, Reflection & CPD 2010-11 for CM Staff & Agents