Education | Trust Business Leaders

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Our vision is to establish a group of Trust Business Leaders, open to any leader within a trust or a maintained school, who share information and resources, so enabling our schools to deliver excellent teaching and learning.
We recognise that as public institutions, all resources created by our members have already been paid for with public money - and should thus be shared.
When using resources, we acknowledge our colleagues.
Our platform provides resources - but a crucial part of or working together is attendance at face to face learning sessions, where we work to build helpful relationships with our colleagues.
We do not consider our Service Level Agreements with external providers 'commercially sensitive' and share these with colleagues.

We are a group of people working to support teaching and learning within our trusts, through our business leadership of our trusts, be they small, medium or large.
We started out as a group of school business leaders in Newham, but welcome others from outside our Borough.

We recognise that whilst each trust, and each school within each trust, is a separate entity, we are all in the business of supporting our practitioners in the classroom to ensure that our children receive the best possible education.
We recognise that in our community (and indeed beyond), many of the queries/problems/tasks we come up against will be the same.
We exist in order to share learning, contacts, ideas and resources between the members of our group.

A willingness to trust others.
A real, honest, willingness to share.
A willingness to contribute - in any individual way in which members feel they can.
A recognition that every trust will make a different contribution - and that whilst work that helps all members is acknowledged and celebrated, no-one is ‘keeping score’.
A recognition of the importance of an external view and external input - and work to facilitate this.
A willingness to reflect on our own practice, and the awareness to change what we think could work better.
An agreement that members should attend a minimum of 50% of the scheduled meetings in any academic year.
A willingness to work within the Google ecosystem for all work in the group (training will be provided where required).

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