In the second part of this article, I want to focus very much on the lessons we have learned in these early years of forming our Teaching School Alliance (TSA) so that perhaps headteachers who are considering embarking on this exciting journey can avoid some of the pitfalls. I would like to think that we are getting some things right, but there are definitely things that we would do differently.
The government produced a document evaluating the effectiveness of Teaching Schools in April 2013, it was called First Among Equals? In it the importance of partnership working is stressed. I particularly like the section below and I use this when talking to other schools and other headteachers about working with us in our alliance:
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