During the
period from April 2003, schools will be increasingly
encouraged to engage more formally in Remodelling activity.
Cultural changes to the structure of the workforce and the
organisation of schools will be needed to facilitate the
later phases of the National Agreement and ensure that
every school is in a position to be responsive to the
changing learning needs of pupils. Responses needed to
'Every Child
Matters' will also necessitate changes to long
established practice in schools.
Initially
only those schools who had achieved the 'Investors in
People' standard were invited to work with the LEA on the
change management process developed by the National
Remodelling Team (NRT). This was to enable experience to be
gained in the use of the NRT materials and to work with
those schools who it was felt had already moved some way
towards the principles of remodelling through engagement
with the IiP process. Learning from the experiences of
schools in Rotherham and across the nation as a whole will
increasingly inform remodelling in other schools.
Collaboration and exchange of learning is a vital component
of the NRT change management process.
Engaging
with the process will support the implementation of the
National Agreement, but has the potential to enable the
school to move much further towards remodelling the school
workforce, providing solutions to issues around workload,
address work/life balance and importantly enables the
school to
manage the
process of change rather than just
coping with
it. Remodelling requires a commitment to cultural change
from the headteacher and governors and involves the
creation of a School Change Team (SCT) which will guide the
school through the process. The SCT enables all the
workforce and governors to be involved, and at its most
successful, also extends involvement to pupils, their
families and other stakeholders.
Increasingly schools are beginning to self-nominate to
start work on remodelling via the NRT web-site
National Remodelling Team Other
schools and/or clusters will be given the opportunity
to work with LEA colleagues on the change management
process over the course of the coming two years. This
process involves a launch event and three follow up
events for a representative group from the school.
These events will take place over approximately two
terms. Further activity at school and cluster level
will be supported by LEA Remodelling Consultants.
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