Role of the Teaching Schools Capacity Board
The Warwickshire School Improvement Strategy underpins priority 3 in the Warwickshire Education Strategy, the second part of which states:
"The Warwickshire Challenge Board will continue to lead and coordinate school improvement and will organise support for schools facing difficulties. Teaching schools and multi-academy trusts will be invited to contribute to the school-led system."
The School Improvement Strategy recognises the collective responsibility of education professionals across the county to secure the best outcomes for our learners, irrespective of the type of school, setting or college they attend, and sets out the role of the Teaching Schools Capacity Board in ensuring appropriate support and challenge for schools.
The Teaching Schools Capacity Board meets six times during the year and includes representation from the following:
- Each of the Teaching Schools in Warwickshire
- Diocese and Arch-Diocese
- Local Authority (MATs are represented as a function of the group's membership)
- The University of Warwick
Main areas of responsibility
- Support the delivery of the School Improvement Strategy for Warwickshire
- Review and respond to requests for support put forward by Area Analysis Groups, the Local Authority or the Regional Schools Commissioner
- Review progress of grant funded programmes and school improvement work
- Link to the work of the Teaching Schools Council
- Link to Teaching Schools outside of Warwickshire and opportunities for building capacity within the system
- Maintain an overview of the programme of training and support put forward by Teaching Schools and the alignment with strategic priorities for Warwickshire
- Maintain oversight of commissioning and quality assurance of NLEs, SLEs, LLEs
- Maintain an overview of the deployment of system leaders
We thought it would be useful to give a flavour of the work of the TSCB by sharing the agenda of the most recent meeting.
Future meeting dates
26 June 2019, 16 October 2019, 12 December 2019, 12 February 2020, 31 March 2020, 20 May 2020, 30 June 2020
Further information
For further information about the board please contact sophiethompson@warwickshire.gov.uk or margotbrown@warwickshire.gov.uk