‘The Education Reform Joint Agreement between Scottish Government and Local Government sets out clear expectations to create an empowered education system. This agreement is founded on the understanding that everyone involved in the education system will require to work together to create a system which promotes collaboration and professional judgement at school level and beyond,’

Towards an empowered system, Improving school empowerment through self-evaluation (July 2019)

Collaboration for Improvement

Collaboration is the most important feature of the self-improving system. It is essential that opportunities are created which allow senior leaders the time and head space to work together to lead improvements in education provision.

Throughout each session we will offer to host ‘Empowerment Hubs’ to support collaboration for improvement. The themes of each hub will be directed by the collective goals and aspirations for learners and schools as set out in school, cluster and local authority plans. These hubs will give participants the opportunity to share views, interesting practice and innovative ideas as well as engage in co-production and solution-oriented approaches.

The empowerment hubs will be both cross and single sector depending on school’s own self-evaluation of priorities and will be available for all senior leaders to opt in and make an active contribution to improvement.

Professional Learning and Leadership Development for Improvement

We support and promote professional learning and leadership development which focusses on building capacity for improvement.

As part of our shared responsibility, ownership and accountability of local priorities we will align our ‘Education Practicums’ to support our key areas for improvement.

The practicum approach will use improvement methodologies and will focus on using data and research to improve outcomes for learners. These hubs will be cross sector and where appropriate have multi agency membership.