{"id":1055,"date":"2017-05-04T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2017-05-04T18:43:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T17:43:11","slug":"brokerage-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/brokerage-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"Insights from Creative Schools brokerage:  One year in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\">In our continuing exploration of\u00a0What Schools Want? we reflect on learning from the first year of our schools brokerage offer to East London Schools with insights from our Creative Schools brokers as well as teachers and artists working together through Creative Schools.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we get ready to move into our second year of Creative Schools activity and start working with schools signed up to <span style=\"color: #6baecb;\"><a style=\"color: #6baecb;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/creative-schools-artsmark\/\">Creative Schools Artsmark<\/a><\/span>, we brought cultural leaders from twenty-five East London organisations together in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/collaboration-begins-learn-together-2\/\">Collaborative Learning<\/a> forum to share insights acquired over the first year of brokerage activity and to survey the landscape of opportunities for working with schools in East London in 2017\/18.<\/p>\n<p>To kick off the session, our School Partnerships Coordinator and Schools Broker, Bex and Andrew, reflected on the successes and challenges encountered so far and shared their insights into building successful relationships with schools.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\">The Creative Schools Three P\u2019s:\u00a0 Bex and Andrew\u2019s top tips for building relationships with schools.<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">People:<\/span><\/strong> take the time to build trust and shared understanding with both teachers and senior leaders in a school.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Purpose: <\/span><\/strong>ensure that your offer is relevant to the school\u2019s needs and has purpose by taking the time to research the school, translate your ambitions into school\u2019s language,\u00a0 and link your project to whole school improvement.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Patience:<\/span><\/strong> building a new partnership with a school will often be front loaded in term of investment of your time and capacity, but putting in the time at the start will facilitate trust, shared vision and long term engagement and impact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\">With so much expertise in the room, we spent some time adding some additional P&#8217;s as well as few other letters to our list of top tips!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1056\" src=\"https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Top-tips.jpg\" alt=\"Top tips\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Top-tips.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Top-tips-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Top-tips-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>A teacher\u2019s perspective: Roman Road Primary School<\/h2>\n<p>Partners had an opportunity\u00a0to get a teacher&#8217;s perspective with Noreena, one of the inspiring teachers working at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romanroad.newham.sch.uk\/\">Roman Road Primary School<\/a> in Newham, who shared her incredible insights into her school\u2019s journey from low arts engagement to valuing the arts across the curriculum. Roman Road is currently building partnerships with arts organisations through\u00a0Creative Schools including dance and literacy projects; working towards their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsmark.org.uk\/\">Artsmark<\/a> accreditation; and developing an Arts Policy for the whole school.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\">Noreena\u2019s Top Tips for unlocking support and understanding\u00a0what schools want<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Be creative with how you link your project to school improvement priorities to unlock support from school leadership, this can really help teachers to advocate for a project. Looking at the <strong>school improvement plan<\/strong> is a great place to start \u2013 all schools have these published on their websites.\u00a0 You can strengthen your project by using school language such as \u201cprogression\u201d, \u201cattainment levels\u201d and \u201cachievement\u201d to demonstrate how you are helping the school to solve a challenge or meet a key priority.\u00a0 Last Autumn Roman Road Primary worked with artists from <a href=\"http:\/\/waynemcgregor.com\/\">Studio Wayne McGregor<\/a>, to support students to link their ideas for English through expressive dance.<\/li>\n<li>Find out if the school has an <strong>Arts Policy<\/strong> or is doing an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsmark.org.uk\/\">Artsmark<\/a><\/strong>. Roman Road is currently writing its own Arts Policy, and is completing an Artsmark case study to gain national recognition for their arts practice from Arts Council England.<\/li>\n<li>When resources are scarce consider ways to<strong> join up across a group of schools<\/strong>. This year Roman Road is working with Central Park and Brampton Primary schools on a shared project with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetinthecity.co.uk\">Poet in the City<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/stratford-circus.com\/\">Stratford Circus Arts Centre<\/a> designed to inspire their Y5 students to explore literacy creatively, whilst strengthening links with neighboring schools. As part of the project teachers from all three schools will take part in shared CPD, reducing costs for each school.<\/li>\n<li>Project legacy is vital to having a <strong>long term impact<\/strong> for the school and the young people taking part. How can you support teachers and students to stay inspired and build on the activity you have delivered?\u00a0 A great way to start might be to include the class teacher in your project planning and delivery.\u00a0 Teachers are some of the most creative people in the room so make sure they are involved in what you are delivering\u2013 this can also be a useful way to build teacher expertise, confidence and skills in arts projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>An artist\u2019s perspective: \u00a0Output Arts<\/h2>\n<p>Artists Andy and Jonathan from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outputarts.com\/\">Output Arts<\/a>, an arts collective based in Hackney that combines bespoke technology and art to make innovate audio visual installations, shared their experiences of co-designing projects with schools\u00a0and creating opportunities across the whole school community.<\/p>\n<p>As part of Creative Schools, Output Arts are currently working with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grove.redbridge.dbprimary.com\/redbridge\/primary\/grove\">Grove Primary School<\/a> in Redbridge, on a bespoke digital arts project involving a talking post box, which was co-designed with teachers to address the school priority to support literacy and creative writing with boys.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\">Andy and Jonathan&#8217;s top tips for co-designing a project with a school\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Inclusivity<\/strong>: Work across the school community, the staff are sticking around and will have a lasting impact, the pupils are passing through.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Legacy<\/strong>: Make a lasting difference through training and involving people, as well as creating something that also lasts that will have lasting value, something the school could not make themselves.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Listening: <\/strong>What does the school want?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Does the school know what it wants?<\/strong> What stage are they at? Content? Budget? Space? Pupils? Do they need more help and time?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Initial meeting: <\/strong>Involving both staff and senior management is really useful though sometimes not possible, but a lot can be sorted quickly if this happens. A chance for clarity, commitment, and understanding.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Budget:<\/strong> It is useful to set out a clear budget early so time is not wasted on a big project that is financially out of reach.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bespoke<\/strong>: Offer creative solutions and ideas that excite all. Not a one size fits all. As artists, how can our practice also benefit? Becomes a more creative brief.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Managing expectations<\/strong>: Not just about numbers through the artist staff in attendance and working and learning alongside the artists and pupils. Valuing the arts and what we do.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time:<\/strong> It takes more time to develop and negotiate and is more risky to but is a better fit and can target specific areas and student.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Further resources and links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/schools\/how-it-works\/\">Find out how the Creative Schools Artsmark brokerage offer works<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/supporting-schools-artsmark\/\">Find tips for supporting Artsmark schools from our session with Arts Council England and A New Direction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/look-back-2016\/\">Check out Creative Schools programme highlights from 2016<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/projects-east-london\/\">Read about some of the exciting projects that have been brokered in 2016\/17<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Opportunities in 2017\/18<\/h2>\n<p>Its been an incredible year of Collaborative Learning with 60+\u00a0cultural organisations from East London\u00a0sharing experiences and practice through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/collaboration-begins-learn-together-2\/\">monthly sessions<\/a>\u00a0looking at \u2018What Schools Want\u2019, \u2018Participation in Action\u2019 and \u2018The One About the Money\u2019.\u00a0 We are kicking off our next round of brokerage with schools this May and will be tweeting about all the exciting projects being delivered during the summer term <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EastLondonCEP\">@EastLondonCEP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about how East London\u2019s Cultural Leaders are working together through Creative Schools and a programme of Collaborative Learning email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hello@creativeschools.London\">hello@creativeschools.London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Image credit: \u00a0Calise Lewis for Creative Schools 2016<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our continuing exploration of\u00a0What Schools Want? we reflect on learning from the first year of our schools brokerage offer to East London Schools with insights from our Creative Schools&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/brokerage-insights\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,5,6,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9.1 - 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