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Ithaca- Two Schools' Journey of Discovery together.
Start date: Sep 8, 2014, End date: Sep 7, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project focuses on sustainable school development. It unites two Teaching Schools with established areas of excellence and experience in working with partners both in their own countries and abroad. The schools also have established practice in delivering Continual Professional Development both inside their own establishments and to other partners and amongst the partnership there is a great deal of outstanding practice which has been used for benchmarking by other schools both nationally and internationally. It is in this context that we are seeking to share and build on this excellence by offering training, coaching and support in each schools' strengths and taking up the opportunity of practising these new skills both in the context of the partner schools with the support of their experts and then in our home schools with continued on-line support. The project aims to further disseminate this newly acquired and developed expertise with other partners from outside the project. We will also be organising educational conferences in both countries with workshops run by the project participants which will be open to other members of the profession. Each school will see twelve members of teaching staff delivering training and twelve receiving staff training in the partner school. This will therefore involve 24 staff from each school. Alongside this, we will be holding a meeting in Penzance for the Senior Teams of each school in order to identify areas of school improvement where they can collaborate in a similar way. The schools have already identified areas in which they will work and these include Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), Sports teaching methodology including Sports for students with disabilities, the use of modern technologies in teaching and Sports and Growth Mindset. Both schools are also looking to expand their competencies in working with more able students and in teaching Modern Foreign Languages. We expect the project to have a wide impact on raising standards in the two schools both through the improved methodology and pedagogy of its teaching staff and through developments engendered in the structure and leadership of the schools through the involvement of the Senior Teams. Finally we intend the results and developments which issue from this project to be long-term with the two schools but also within other schools both locally and nationally through the sharing of expertise the Academy already supports in its work with such partners as PixL, The Prince's Teaching Institute, Challenge Partners and the Teaching School Alliance.
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