The Schools and Community Football Conference, 24 June 2013 at Burton Albion Football Club. Prof. Des Hewitts presentation on partnership working.

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The Schools and Community
Football Conference

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Partnership, collaboration and beyond
Prof. Des Hewitt, University of Derby

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Changes to the partnership
landscape
• Changes in role and influence of Local Authority
• Reduction in financial resources
• Teaching Schools
• School partnerships: Cooperative Trusts, learning
partnerships, academy chains, federations et
• Internationalization: e-twinning, Skype Education,
Education foundations (Edison, America First etc)

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What is
partnership?

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What’s the point of partnership?

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Barriers to partnership?
Post it activity

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Overview
• What is partnership?
• What’s the point of partnership?
• Barriers to partnership?
• Feedback from our research
• Being effective
• Models of partnership.

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Community
‘At the end of the day we come back to the first
question which is all about children, it has to be
child-centred. If partnership can start and help
identify needs and talents so the children can have
the opportunity particularly in this community. Can
have the opportunity to maybe have something more
than they would ever being able to do. If it weren’t
for those networks and the school working in
partnership then the children won’t come potentially
benefit now.’
Community sports coordinator

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Relationships
‘It’s about the relationship between the teacher and
the child. Understanding who they are, understand
their background, understanding what they need to
learn what they need next in their learning’
Teacher

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Parents and community
‘If I think about the benefits for the community. I’ve
had a parent contact me and say: Can I start a
jogging club? Can you put a poster up in your…?.
Well she’s been empowered. That lady now is… she
was able to do that I supported her doing that put a
link on the website, our website and she’s got a few
parents of our school jogging round’
Sports coach

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Activity
 What makes a good partnership?
 See extract: ‘progress in learning’
 What do we mean by progress?
 Getting the balance right: ‘fun and learning’?

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Quality and quality assurance
‘Quality; Reliability; Strength in the partnership and
the fact that you’re working together to the same
ends. If you’ve got all of that you are pretty much on
your way’
Sports coach

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Being strategic
‘to look at individual programmes strategically we
have to make sure that we are working with our
partners to deliver ‘
Sports coach

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Value for money
‘But you got to be able to extend the value for
money into other partnerships as well. So if we go in
we might be able to bring some of our other partners
in school to support school. ‘
Sports coach

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Collaboration with Initial Teacher
Education
Children,
families and
community
Community
sports
groups
School

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Seven habits of
effective
partnerships

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Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be
Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
The Seven Habits of Effective People

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Is this partnership going to be worth
joining?
• How should I behave in this partnership to
achieve the best results for my organisation or
service?
• What does this partnership need to do differently
if it going to be more effective?
• Is partnership the best way of approaching this
problem?

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The games we play – how partners
behave
• Aggressive
• Discontented Partner
• Defensive Partner
• Listening partner
• Compliant Partner
• Authentic Partner

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The need for partnership
• We both deal with some intractable, multi-faceted
issues in which we both have a stake.
• We both have a specific problem that we can
readily devise ways of resolving if we work at it
together.
• We are wasting resources or letting children fall
through gaps in our provision
• My organisation has a problem that is caused by
policies or practices of your organisation.

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Co-
evolution
Coordination
Collaboration
Cooperation
Different forms of
partnership
Where are you?

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Cooperation
Of the four types of partnership, cooperation could
be characterised as the simplest form, the least
‘partner –like’, in that it requires the least generous
and creative behaviour.
Examples include:-
‘Sports organisation uses the facilities of a
school with no discussion of common purposes,
aims etc’

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Coordination
Coordination is slightly further along the partnership
spectrum. The partners are working towards each
others goals as well as their own, and may be open
to developing bigger, collective goals.
Examples include:-
‘A PE coordinator in school, team teaches some
PE sessions with a Sports coach in an after
school club
The club is open to parents and children’

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Collaboration
Partners are trying to meet their own goals rather
than those of their partners, but may be open to
identifying joint goals if these become apparent.
Examples include:
‘A school identifies boys’ literacy and girls
numeracy as poor. One premier league club
has co-written a reading scheme. How could
we develop numeracy through sport...?’

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Co-evolution
This is the ‘deepest’ form of partnership. It requires
new thinking, new insights, new generosity about
opportunities or problems. Many of these
partnerships will fail in that they do not yield a good
return on the time invested.
Examples of areas that may benefit from a co-
evolution partnership:
‘A community football group becomes partner
in a Learning and Teaching Cooperative;
The Teaching and learning sub-group
identifies a twin track sport and education
strategy for children and parents.’

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Some finishing thoughts
• Sustainability: recent funding is limited
• Developing capacity in schools
• Strategic
• Working in different ways
• ‘The whole partnership is greater than the sum of
its parts’

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Moving forward

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