If you are applying to be a teaching school or are part of a job share in this round, or thinking of applying in future, The Eastern Leadership Centre (ELC) would like to be a strategic partner in your school’s alliance.
About ELC
We have a proven track record of effective collaboration and partnership with schools across the Eastern Region and are one of a small number of organisations on the National College’s Provider Framework. The ELC is a not-for-profit charitable organisation, dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people. For more information about how we have worked collaboratively with schools click here.
How we can help you as a Teaching School:
During your application:
We have reviewed the application guidance and questions to become a Teaching School, and prepared some possible ELC contributions. These may help answer questions within sections 1, 5, 7 and 8. They focus on aspects of partnership and benefits of collaboration from working with strategic partners, such as the ELC. To download ELC contributions to the application, please click here.
Help and support as a strategic partner:
As a potential strategic partner, our role is about aligning with the vision and needs of the alliance, depending on their We offer a menu of support and are open to discussing which elements might augment your alliance in the most effective way and align to your local needs and context. These are underlined by nil-cost or competitive options to secure economies of scale.
For example:
- For all schools naming ELC as a partner in your strategic alliance, free access to ‘elco’ a community based website and forum offering a platform for on-line collaboration and partnership within your alliance.
- Support with brokering the vision, strategic objectives and planning of the alliance, including producing documentation in line with your objectives. Free consultation and one day delivery.
- Support with the setting up, administration and coordination of the alliance (costed).
- Support with designing bespoke CPD programmes aligned with the vision and strategic objectives of your alliance, drawing on ELC’s extensive training programme portfolio (costed).
- Support with co-delivery of training in conjunction with your alliance’s staff, aligned with inset days to secure economies of scale (costed).
- Provision of ‘train the trainer’ programmes and quality and impact evaluation tools, techniques and systems, to ensure consistent monitoring against outcomes underpinned by continuous improvement (costed).
- Other support as appropriate depending on your needs, for example marketing.
If you would like to talk to us about how we can support your alliance please contact our Service Leader, jacqueline.mccamphill@elc-cambridge.org or call Jacqueline on 07811 112274 or 01223 499213.
This is an exciting and challenging time and we would really like to join you on this journey.
