Posts Tagged as ‘Future Schools Network’

May 15, 2008

The Opening Minds Conference 2008: letting schools provide the answers

The annual Opening Minds Conference was held at the RSA yesterday. Yet again the event was a sell out, and most of the team spent a lot of time standing or sitting on the floor to listen to the presentations.
Despite the warm day in the packed Great Room, delegates listened and responded to a range [...]

January 29, 2008

Room for subversion

As many will know, this Monday the RSA, in partnership with the Innovation Unit, will host the first event in the life of the Future Schools Network.
 The purpose of the Network is to create schools fit for the 21st Century - by which we broadly mean schools which are responsive to a world which is changing [...]

January 23, 2008

Future Schools Network – tell us what you want to work on

Today we are posting the first of our background documents. Written by Mike Gibbons, Chief Executive of the Innovation Unit, it begins with a brief outline about the idea of ‘Next Practice’ as opposed to ‘Best Practice’.
Then it highlights four broad ideas members of the Future Schools Network could consider when deciding what themes we [...]

December 21, 2007

Collaborating Online

A quick post to give us something to chew on over the Christmas break (other than chocolate, I mean).
 The RSA have been developing an online platform to support networking and collaboration which we hope to use for the Future Schools Network. We will be meeting the developers in the new year to move forward with [...]

December 18, 2007

Networks of knowledgeable people

In the last post I mentioned that we visit schools a lot.This means each of the team are in schools every week and have the opportunity to talk to staff and students (though probably not as often with students as we should, and our conversations with staff aren’t as ongoing as we would like).Being in [...]

December 18, 2007

Welcome to the RSA Education Blog

Welcome to the RSA Education Team’s new blog. Let me try to explain why I hope it will be useful.
The point of this blog is to have a more regular conversation about what is on our minds with regards ideas and practice. We don’t want to meet you and then be out of touch [...]