National College Learning Resources for Educators

The Challenge

Devise and develop a range of materials to engage, inform and inspire school leaders in the UK.

Insight

Feedback from leaders present at the Leading Personalised Learning seminar regarding their desired interactivities gave us an interesting insight into how they as individuals prefer to learn and, in turn, how they will lead. Our research helped us to devise a strategy for creating a range of content to enable leaders to move away from the e-learning model of instructor-led teaching of individuals to the more engaging learner-led finding, doing, and collaborating process.

Output

Engine Creative designed and produced individual brochures and developed activity programmes in conjunction with the National College research team. Through a process which included a headteacher workshop to test the activities, the 'Thinking Board' activities were developed to act as a way for participants to create their own leadership futures plan. A range of online content (research, case studies, framework, video, audit tools) was also created including a 15 minute documentary which was shown on Teachers TV and edited down into a range of web clips.

The Payback

The resources help educators across the UK embed Personalised Learning into their schools.
All activities have been adopted by the International Leadership in Education Research Network (ILERN).