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Effective school-to-school partnerships

School improvement Whole-school issues
Enabling the teaching profession to instigate, develop and lead school improvement is increasingly viewed as the most effective way forward in embedding educational reforms. Robert Smith explains how this has worked in Wales through school-to-school partnerships

In Wales, policy-makers have been keen for the most successful schools to take a lead in transformation and school improvement through partnership and collaboration with colleagues in other primaries and secondaries.

For the past three years, the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has been analysing the impact of the Lead and Emerging Practitioner Pathfinder Project, or “The Pathfinder”, which was carried out in two tranches, the first in 2014 and a second in 2015.

The Pathfinder aimed to raise the standards within primary and secondary schools in Wales by facilitating school-to-school support to accelerate improvement. Lead Practitioner Schools are high-performing primary and secondary schools with a proven leadership track record that has resulted in high levels of performance and/or improvement over a sustained period.

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