Sustainability

=What do we want to sustain?=
 * The clustering nature of our three years of learning
 * The networks
 * Attitudes around continuous learning
 * Sense of community
 * Sharing and pooling of expertise
 * Personal growth
 * Challenging and supportive environment
 * Celebrating the learning - conferences, kids conferences etc.

=How can we build now for sustainability?=
 * Develop the expertise through to all our teachers **AND** our students
 * Utilise the online environment and web 2.0 tools to develop a community area that is easy for all teachers to use and which provides links out to new ideas and possibilities through social bookmarking and RSS feeds.
 * Have expectations for all learners - teachers included
 * Self directed learning - take personal responsibility. Accountability. Appraisal???
 * Risk taking
 * Tools to unpack and find out about the resources - make sure during the three years that all have the skills to do this
 * Inherent in all action plans, charters, appraisal etc.
 * Attendance at conferences
 * Continue clustering for provision of professional development opportunities several times each year e.g. ToDs.
 * Continue cluster contact for lead teachers so that they can share and learn from each other
 * Forge links with new clusters int he area to provide support for them and piggyback off some of the activities that they organise
 * Projects funding (MoE)
 * Become professional learners who pull the information that is needed to be effective - rather than waiting for professional development. Self sustaining practitioners.
 * Relationship and fellowship developed into a community of learners
 * Encourage reflective practice and share e.g. in weekly staff meetings - deal with the admin stuff in other ways.
 * Qualifications structure / appraisal