Glass Half-full Conference

18th Jun 2015

North East Teaching Schools have been asked to deliver this conference to both celebrate the developing school-led system in our region and to encourage more people to collaborate in its building and development. The theme for the conference is Creativity, with particular attention to solving problems differently and collaboratively. We hope as a consequence of this launch we will develop a range of project groups addressing shared concerns that we face in the North East.

Everyone attending the conference will be taken through an approach to creative problem solving that will not only help them in their daily work in their own schools, but also help schools to work collaboratively across the region on some of the thorny problems we face. Delegates will hear of examples of this working, will see the process unfold and then have a chance to pursue their own concerns in workshops and leadership conversations, before being inspired by Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson, who will share her insight into problems she has overcome.

As we leave the conference, we hope this will not be the end, but only the beginning to a new way of working as schools across the region commit to work together to solve some of these, so called, insoluble problems! The North East has a tradition of problem solving in the industrial and manufacturing world. Well, now is the time for us to realise that potential in our school-led education system!

Guest Speakers include:
Ian Moore
Kevin Bryon
Jane Shaw
Dame Tanni Grey–Thompson

Date: Thursday 18 June
Venue: The Sage, Gateshead
Cost: £99 per person

For more information John Hardy, St John Vianney Primary - headteacher.stjohnvianney@school.hartlepool.gov.uk

Booking form - http://www.schoolsnortheast.com/resource-center/cat/tools/