Learning Communities: Drumchapel  : Hyndland  : Hillhead : John Paul

Further enhancing improvement in Glasgow is dependent upon building, supporting and sustaining a self-evaluation culture, within which there is practitioner engagement and ownership

J Wilson (Head of Service)

39,600 children in Primary  – 25,000 young people in Secondary –   1,500  Children and young people in ASL – 11,700 Children in Early Years – 10,000 staff – 300 schools*

*school is used to describe a school, nursery, unit, or service

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Local Improvement Groups, referred to as LIGs, were developed in 2014 as part of supporting improvement structures. The aim is to empower schools to take ownership of the improvement process by working collaboratively with other establishments locally. There are eight Local Improvement Groups across the city within three main areas; the North East, the North West and the South.

Quality Improvement Officers (QIOs) and Educational Psychologists (EPs) support emerging developments within each LIG. Local Improvement Groups support improvement through self-evaluation, focusing the improvement planning process on what is known to work locally, nationally and internationally.

As part of Education Services’ commitment to building capacity within schools, collaborative models are being developed with the key purpose of providing opportunities for leaders at every level to share practice, implement and take forward improvements.

The LIG model supports the delivery of key national frameworks and policies, and evaluates the impact of these, including Glasgow’s Improvement Challenge and the National Improvement Framework, within a Glasgow context.

As the structures further develop and embed, the LIGs will provide:

• clear, intelligent, accountable systems which enable continuous improvement;
• the sharing of professional learning and knowledge to support delivery of the highest quality;
• improved leadership of learning to deliver improvements, close the gap, and raise attainment and achievement; and
• research and challenge in order to support and evaluate improvements.

Education Services will regularly evaluate what works well within the LIG structures and identify recommendations for next steps, to continuously strengthen the role of LIGs in supporting improvement.