Competition is, generally speaking, the opposite of co-operation, which is why it came as something of a shock when Schools Minister Andrew Adonis recently announced that co-operation is the order of the day. He even went so far as to say that good schools that help not-so-good schools can get extra finance if their support work really does generate improvements.
So how can a good school support a struggling neighbour?
One of the key features of many struggling schools is that they tend to focus on behaviour and discipline rather than on the management of education. When they develop policy documents it is "to keep the inspectors happy", rather than to improve the teaching and learning within the school.
Softorque examined what stops schools from policy sharing. They found that having huge folders of printed policies put off many teachers and managers, and that such documents were never read. However, when the policies were shared on-line via a central hub, managers in the less effective schools were much more likely to adopt the policies one by one and implement them.
As a result Softorque produced the Ariadne system which allows each school in the hub to share policies on-line and to know that they are always dealing with the most up-to-date version of each policy.
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