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participation, engagement, impact and transferability. Evaluation is
focused on the promotion of cultural change, not only within schools, but
also in the wider community.
Some 120 (25 per cent) of Barrow’s teaching force have been trained in
Critical Skills techniques, including the first FE college cohort in the UK.
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Critical Skills programme throughout the UK and USA now uses a
demonstration video made in BCLP schools as evidence of this successful
practice both as a teaching methodology and as an agent for change.
BCLP has also worked closely with the Brathay Hall Trust, Ambleside, a
leading international provider of personal, educational and corporate
development programmes on a range of youth, professional and
leadership projects. These programmes include the setting up of peer
coaching within the BCLP team and school Senior Leadership Teams and
the development of leadership skills and strategies, with a former
Unilever manager acting as coach and mentor. These leadership groups
have been established to nurture professional development and create
leadership roles, not only in schools but also among parents and in the
local community, where teachers and support staff apply the skills
necessary to embed new approaches and technologies.
All this is based on an achievable, community-wide educational vision
for South Cumbria – an area associated with rural isolation and high levels
of social and economic disadvantage – in which schools and colleges are
central to the task of neighbourhood regeneration and renewal.
For more information contact [e-mail].
DISCUSSION TOPIC
If you send out signals that ‘people out there’ are enemies, they may be-
have like enemies, whereas if your regard them as potential allies, you will
often gain their support. Is this true? How can you get people to want to
help you?
FURTHER READING
Clegg, D. and Billington, S. (1994) Making the Most of Your Inspection, Falmer, London.
Dean, J. (1993) Managing the Secondary School (2nd edn), Routledge, London
(especially Chapter 12).
Dean, J. (1994) Managing the Primary School (2nd edn), Routledge,
London.
Foskett, N. (ed.) (1999) Managing External Relations in Schools, Paul Chapman
Publishing, London.
Glatter, R. (1989) Educational Institutions and their Environments: Managing the
Boundaries, Open University, Milton Keynes.
Jones, A. (1987) Leadership for Tomorrow’s Schools, Blackwell, Oxford.
Ormston, M. and Shaw, M. (1994) Inspection: A Preparation Guide for Schools (2nd edn),
Longman, Harlow. Contains a useful set of practical actions at the end of each
chapter.
Stoll, L. and Myers, K. (eds) (1998) No Quick Fixes: Perspectives on Schools in Difficulty,
Falmer Press, London.
West-Burnham, J. and Gelsthorpe, T. (2002) Educational Leadership in the Community:
Strategies for School Improvement through Community Engagement, Pearson
Education, Harlow.

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Whalley, M. (2000) Involving Parents in their Children’s Learning, Paul Chapman
Publishing, London.
Woods, D. and Orlick, S. (1994) School Review and Inspection, Kogan Page, London.

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