Aspiring Lead Practitioners and the diffusion of innovation theory

Andy Williams will be presenting how the Lead Practitioner framework can help practitioners understand the diffusion of innovation theory: how it describes an improvement journey, and crucially how it can make change more effective and sustained.

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Andy Williams will be presenting how the Lead Practitioner framework can help practitioners understand the diffusion of innovation theory: how it describes an improvement journey, and crucially how it can make change more effective and sustained.

An aspirant Lead Practitioner (LP) uses the framework of LP standards to build a portfolio of impact in improving teaching and learning through the professional development of colleagues.

Most LPs on the accreditation journey are concerned with driving improvements in teaching and learning, improvements that should be both sustainable and scalable.

Too often, an improvement project in schools and colleges is actioned and relatively successful, only to fail when the ‘change agent’, the driver of the project, moves on to pastures new. This cycle of boom and bust can be avoided through a focus on ensuring collective responsibility across the majority of staff. This process of collective responsibility and accountability to each other for improvement is not easy – habit change is both lengthy and difficult.

The diffusion of innovation theory helps us to understand who we need to recruit as advocates in the early stages of an improvement project, and how we empower these advocates to model and scaffold for others.
LP accreditation supports, guides and challenges the process of improvement in teaching and learning with an emphasis on sustainable change and empowerment of colleagues to maintain the improvements beyond accreditation.

The aspirant LP drives this process in making informed professional decisions, based on evidence and rooted in professional development, and their learning along the way feeds back into the understanding of impact within the specific context of the school or college.

Who is it for?

This briefing is intended for all those who are considering the LP accreditation for themselves or for a school cohort. We ask attendees to please read through the LP brochure beforehand, as a basic understanding of LP is needed in order to make the most out of the session.

Host

Andy Williams, Senior Education Lead, SSAT

Passionate about the transformative potential of education, Andy offers both challenge and high-quality training to improve teaching and learning across a wide range of institutions, based on his extensive experience in education at a strategic and operational level.