{"id":1216,"date":"2017-12-18T10:55:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T10:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2017-12-18T10:55:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T10:55:25","slug":"case-study-creative-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/case-study-creative-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"CASE STUDY:  Creative Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\">Read the recent case study on Creative Schools, part of the <a style=\"color: #6baecb;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.culturemile.london\/content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Building-a-Collaborative-Culture-A4-report-FINAL-low-res-spreads.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Building a Collaborative Culture<\/span><\/a>\u00a0report and toolkit,\u00a0 published in October 2017 by Barbican \/ Guildhall School of Music &amp; Drama.\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #6baecb;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.culturemile.london\/content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Building-a-Collaborative-Culture-A4-report-FINAL-low-res-spreads.pdf\">Download the full report at culturemile.london<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Creative Schools was developed in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anewdirection.org.uk\/what-we-do\/cultural-education-challenge\">A New Direction\u2019s London Cultural Education Challenge <\/a>(2015), which evidenced that in our current \u2018super served system\u2019 only 23 per cent of London schools interested in doing more with arts and culture report being actively sought out by cultural organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The Creative Schools programme responds\u00a0to this huge untapped demand coupled with the creative, well-being and regeneration opportunities transforming east London. By bringing 50+ culture and education partners together, Creative Schools joins up experience, knowledge and expertise to explore shared approaches to brokering, developing and delivering creative learning opportunities in schools and improve equity and access to east London\u2019s incredible arts and cultural offer.<\/p>\n<p>Since receiving funding in September 2015, Creative Schools has proved highly impactful with 93 per cent of schools and 75 per cent of cultural partners reporting that Creative Schools either fully or mainly achieved what they hoped it would (Creative Schools Interim Evaluation Report, Sarah Boiling Associates, May 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Creative Schools offers a mechanism to reach under-served schools through targeted activities, sharing and strengthening of best practice. The four strands of work for this model are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Schools brokerage:<\/strong> Working with east London schools to support their school improvement needs through the arts and deliver on Artsmark ambitions by better connecting schools with creative opportunities from across the Creative Schools network of 50+ east London cultural organisations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Youth Voice:<\/strong> Empowering youth voice within the commissioning process through student consultation and leadership opportunities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Collaborative Learning<\/strong>: Strengthening practice and enhancing collaboration across east London\u2019s cultural education sector through a programme of structured learning, dialogue and experimentation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New London:<\/strong> Exploring new business models and cross-sector collaborations that support sustainable, long-term investment in cultural education in east London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\"><strong>Project objectives:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong> More children and young people in east London \u2018intrigued engager\u2019 schools engaged in creative activities. (\u2018Intruiged Engager\u2019 is a term coined by A.N.D. which refers to schools with reasonably low levels of cultural engagement but the desire and motivation to do more).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2)<\/strong> More schools accessing creative opportunities that meet their needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3)<\/strong> Increased commitment and practice around delivering high quality cultural education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4)<\/strong> More cultural education investment available for the benefit of children and young people.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\"><strong>Programme &amp; outputs<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong><\/span>In 2016\u201317, 29 cultural organisations proposed 70+ arts projects in response to school priorities identified through needs assessment, and 32 projects were commissioned from 21 arts organisations. Four partnership events were delivered with schools and cultural organisations at: Bow Arts, Redbridge Drama Centre, Stratford Circus Arts Centre and William Morris Gallery. There were eleven collaborative learning opportunities for providers and an Annual Symposium. At the 2016 Creative Schools Symposium 130+ arts and education leaders were in attendance, representing 85 east London organisations including schools, universities, arts organisations, local authorities, music education hubs, funders, health experts, and strategic partners. The day included a range of practical workshops and discussions with arts, health, and funding experts addressing opportunities and challenges currently facing east London schools and cultural organisations.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\">Partners:<\/span> <\/strong>Delivery and strategic leadership distributed across five lead delivery partners and twelve steering group partners. Seventeen schools from four east London boroughs and 42 cultural\/strategic organisations worked together as members of Creative Schools in 2016\/17. 87 schools and 115 cultural organisations were directly engaged through network events and activities. 16 Schools are working together through Creative Schools Artsmark in 2017\/18.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\"><strong>Participants: <\/strong><\/span>2,355 children and young people took part in arts projects commissioned through Creative Schools brokerage (2015 \u2013 July 2017). 140 children and young people took part in youth consultation and leadership opportunities through the Youth Voice strand. 86 east London cultural\/strategic organisations took part in Collaborative Learning opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\"><strong>Positive features of this partnership model<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Time was spent identifying under-served schools and understanding their learning needs.<\/li>\n<li>Schools valued the programme highly. Schools and class\/specialist teachers have been able to \u2018plan, reflect and apply their creativity alongside arts practitioners\u2019 (Creative Schools Interim Evaluation, Sarah Boiling Associates, May 2017). Face-to-face support in and out of projects was key, e.g. partnership events held termly with schools and cultural providers.<\/li>\n<li>There was a shift in the level of collaboration across the cultural sector in particular.<\/li>\n<li>The governance model used dispersed leadership, so responsibility was shared and the steering groups included some school representation within it.<\/li>\n<li>The brokerage has \u2018plugged in\u2019 to different existing levels of provision, networks, and delivery structures within each area it has worked in. It has tailored, \u2018flexed\u2019 and refined the model according to opportunity and need.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\"><strong>Learnings<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setting up initial relationships with schools takes patience and time. Clearly, under-served schools face a myriad of barriers to engagement. Understanding, relevantly responding, and not necessarily taking a \u2018no\u2019 at face value has been key. For cultural providers, the economic reality of offering projects that require significant relationship building time beyond the planned budget can impact future commitment levels.<\/li>\n<li>There appears to be a gap between the rhetoric of wanting to share best practice via the Collaborative Learning forum versus reality. Busy and financially constrained cultural providers, rather like teachers, find investing in their own training and development difficult.<\/li>\n<li>Engagement with the secondary sector is increasingly challenging and reflects similar findings found from projects such as Teach Through Music (a CPD programme for music teachers in London, supported by the London Schools Excellence Fund).<\/li>\n<li>The Youth Voice strand explored a number of ways to build young people\u2019s views into project commissioning. Creating a direct link to projects has been most successful with long-term and in-depth approaches, versus one-off consultations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\"><strong><em>\u2018Really helpful and a good way for schools to see what projects are available all in one go, and then pick what would be most helpful to their school. All without having to send a million emails.\u2019 <\/em><\/strong><strong>Teacher.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\"><strong><em> \u2018We have delivered workshops in a few new schools since joining Creative Schools\u2026.we have been working more collaboratively across a cluster of schools by having a joint planning meeting with the class teachers which has been really useful.\u2019 <\/em><\/strong><strong>Cultural provider<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The above case study on Creative Schools is part of the\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #6baecb;\"><a style=\"color: #6baecb;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.culturemile.london\/content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Building-a-Collaborative-Culture-A4-report-FINAL-low-res-spreads.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Building a Collaborative Culture<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0report and toolkit,\u00a0 published in October 2017,\u00a0Barbican\/Guildhall School of Music &amp; Drama.\u00a0\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.culturemile.london\/content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Building-a-Collaborative-Culture-A4-report-FINAL-low-res-spreads.pdf\">Download the full report at culturemile.london<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or email <strong>hello@creativeschools.london<\/strong> for more information about the programme.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Photo Credit:\u00a0 Output Arts project with Grove Primary School, Creative Schools, 2017.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the recent case study on Creative Schools, part of the Building a Collaborative Culture\u00a0report and toolkit,\u00a0 published in October 2017 by Barbican \/ Guildhall School of Music &amp; Drama.\u00a0&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/case-study-creative-schools\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CASE STUDY: Creative Schools - Creative Schools<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeschools.london\/case-study-creative-schools\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CASE STUDY: Creative Schools - Creative Schools\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Read the recent case study on Creative Schools, part of the Building a Collaborative Culture\u00a0report and toolkit,\u00a0 published in October 2017 by Barbican \/ Guildhall School of Music &amp; 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