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Imagine an educational landscape where schools:

• allow for flexible working – shorter working week anywhere and any time
• allow for breaks during the contact day to collaborate and develop with other staff members
• allow for pooling of resources into regional hubs for ensuring expertise in every lesson
• allow for greater focus on teamwork, collaboration, projects and themes – stage not age
• reduce the formality of the education experience – environment, apparel, relationships
• Employ teachers as informed and expert facilitators embedded within learning and research communities
• Allow for innovation and invention
• Have capacity to provide trauma-informed approaches for students and more targeted pastoral support

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The first steps are to:

• Learn: action research programmes on themes – eliminate marking; broaden the experience to a global level; support staff absence; create dynamic student collaboration projects
• SLT AI: Move operational processes to AI – focus on the future and strategic thinking
• Prepare: 1:1 devices; internet infrastructure; staff training and ambassador groups; directed time for development and collaboration; standing items on senior and middle leadership agendas
• Explore: Rethink Sixth Form physical environment; reconsider school day and ‘Lab work’; enhance teambuilding and social enrichment

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How to mitigate the eye rolls:

• Not enough time to research
• Lack of knowledge and experience and expertise
• Not sure where to go or where to start for educators
• Generational divide
• Avoiding corporatisation of school environment