Growing the Top: Stand-Out Schools
You don't remain outstanding by standing still
Programme Overview
The Growing the Top programme provides opportunities for top performing schools in the Challenge Partners Network of Excellence to work together, push the boundaries and drive their schools - and the education system - to become world-class.
Underpinned by our core philosophy; that it is important to stimulate those at the top to rise higher so that the whole system moves up (the Upwards Convergence model). This programme supports schools to establish partnerships and share knowledge on what has worked for them on their journeys towards excellence.
Programme Structure
Growing the Top delivers a structured programme to help top performing schools learn from each other through school visit days, events, research and discussions.
Participation in the Growing the Top programme is by invitation, which is extended to top- performing Challenge Partner schools. School leaders are matched into trios and undertake facilitated school visits to each other’s schools, during which systemic excellence and systemic challenges are explored. The host school provides an insider’s view of its journey to excellence, as well as an opportunity to observe this in action and talk to leaders, teachers and students. The host school also describes their challenges whilst visiting peers offer their own insights and suggestions to help address them.
Read more about the programme and our evaluation of the 2018-2019 pilot
here.
The most oustanding schools in the Network of Excellence are invited to take part in Growing the Top each summer. If you would like to talk to the central team further please contact
gtt@challengepartners.org
