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Jennifer Barker
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Jennifer Barker
@Barker_J
National director of learning: Ormiston Academies Trust
Joined June 2011
- The new EEF report is out today... a thread
- Replying to @Barker_JWe're going to be getting stuck into the full report and thinking hard about what it means for Ambition's programmes. You can read the full report here: eef.li/epd
- Replying to @Barker_J7. What are the mechanisms I hear you ask?! Here they are, organised into the 4 categories:
- Absolutely delighted and privileged to be joining @OrmistonAcads and play a part in building an amazing professional development offer for its staff. I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved at @Ambition_Inst and excited to build on this with the OAT team..@OrmistonAcads has appointed its first national director for learning – @Barker_J, who will be responsible for ‘providing high-quality professional development’ tes.com/magazine/news/…
- And I’m done! 5 wonderful years at @Ambition_Inst. Thank you to everyone for making it such a brilliant journey. I am incredibly excited about my next step in the journey: joining @OrmistonAcads. See you in a couple of weeks!
- Professional Development in School Trusts – capacity, conditions and culture, a CST ‘Bridge to the Future’ paper (with @katypatten) is out today…a thread. Thanks to @LeoraCruddas and @steverollett of @CSTvoice for this opportunity.
- Replying to @Barker_J4. Today marks the release of the EEF paper 'What are the characteristics of effective teacher professional development? A systematic review and meta-analysis'. At Ambition we are SUPER excited about it. Ambition's @HFletcherWood is a co-author.
- Replying to @Barker_J1. We know PD makes a difference: 'the effect of professional development on student learning is similar to estimates of the effect of having a more experienced teacher' ...
- 'Culture' is difficult to define and yet widely used to describe the environment within a school. This paper looks at what might be helpful to consider when trying to create the culture, or conditions within which pupils can meet the high expectations we set for them...The Expert Edit: Building School Culture is here 🏫 🧠Compelling research extracts on school culture and conditions handpicked by @Barker_J 💡Insight from @EducEndowFoundn's @Sharples_J 📝Reflective prompts to hone the culture in your school. Download your FREE copy now🔽
- Replying to @Barker_J2. and represents a' greater improvement than estimates for the effect of other school-based interventions' POWERFUL STUFF Fletcher-Wood and Zucollo (2020)
- 🚨NEWS!!🚨 For those of you familiar with @Ambition_Inst's work, you'll know how much we care about the research and evidence that underpins our programmes.📣Introducing our new research team Evidence is at the heart of what we do at Ambition. Our new research team will explore: ✅what makes effective professional development ✅how we can tackle educational inequality through expert teaching and leadership ambition.org.uk/news/ambition-…
- A bit gutted not to be there in person for this... being kept busy by this little one for now.
Today we kick off our Teaching Leaders 2019 residential in Warwick. Over the last year @hamer_marie, @TomRees_77, @PepsMccrea, @Barker_J, @melissathomlin1, @miss_marcinko + @HeenaDave12 have transformed the programme using the latest evidence from international experts 1/2 - And we’re done! Super happy/excited/nervous to see it in print.After almost 10 months of discussion and drafting, @Barker_J and I submitted our final chapters for the @researchED1 Guide to School Leadership earlier this week. A privilege to have been asked by @StuartLock & @tombennett71. Really looking forward to the book!
