Leadership for Learning (LFL) - the Cambridge Network 
A vibrant network concerned with learning, leadership and their inter-relationship
LfL works with practitioners, schools and organisations is linked to scholarly engagement with international researchers, and to the interface with policy makers. The network’s operations and influences are at local, national and international levels.
Our programme of events, publications, critical friendship and research is characterised by:
- A distinctive identity and an independent voice.
- Members of the network learning and working together.
- Sensitivity to policy issues but independence from transient priorities.
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- Invitations to Events – LfL hosts regular events and seminars throughout the year at the Faculty of Education but also participates in other events across the UK and internationally.
- Opportunities to engage – as a network we are actively engaged with collaborative knowledge exchange and creation.
Membership of LfL keeps me up to date with the latest thinking as well as giving me a sense of community and belonging
LfL member 2011
To join the mailing list, please email: lfl@educ.cam.ac.uk
Forthcoming Supper Seminar with Melissa Benn, parent, campaigner and writer
What is Michael Gove really up to? Dissecting the new school wars...
Thursday 1st March 5pm - 7pm
Education Secretary Michael Gove has launched a torrent of initiatives aimed at fundamentally changing the landscape of English education. Naturally, the rhetoric is all about school improvement. Yet nothing is quite as it seems with Gove's so called 'quiet revolution.' In the name of autonomy and freedom, schools are passing away from the oversight of elected local authorities into the hands of a growing array of unaccountable charitable and other providers - including, it is now clear, for-profit companies - answerable only to Whitehall. Data now emerging on the performance of academies suggests, at best, a mixed picture of success. At the same time, academic rigour for all, within a non selective framework, is promoted as a central aim. Yet grammar schools are being allowed to expand, if on the sly, while vocational provision is being fundamentally reorganised. What will all these changes mean for our schools of the future in terms of both quality and equality? Is this a return to the stratification of the 1994 settlement via the quasi-market rather than the state? And how should those who oppose the Coalition's direction of travel present the arguments for a more unified, fairer system in the 21st century?
Wine and nibbles will be served so please register your attendance by Friday 24th February. There will be no charge for this event but we will have a collection for the Agona Asafo community library.
Recently published:
ICSEI 2012 25th International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement:
Supportive challenge for headteachers in England by Sue Swaffield
A University for Children by John MacBeath
International Teacher Leadership project:
Supporting teacher leadership in 15 countries A report by David Frost
inFORM no. 12 Featuring The International Teacher Leadership project Phase 1 by David Frost
This issue of inFORM coincides with the publication of the above report on the ITL project: 'Supporting teacher leadership in 15 countries - the International Teacher Leadership project, Phase 1'.