tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2013:/we-do//2 2013-02-26T18:33:12Z Our work, projects and clients Movable Type 3.34 tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2013:/we-do//2.135 2013-02-26T16:33:38Z 2013-02-26T18:33:12Z

Looking at our website anyone would think we have been in hibernation for about at least the past year. Well, far from it, we have in fact been quite busy - just not in terms of updating this. In April...

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com Looking at our website anyone would think we have been in hibernation for about at least the past year. Well, far from it, we have in fact been quite busy - just not in terms of updating this. In April 2011 we alerted you to the fact that Gene Payne was taking an Assistant Principal role at a Harris Academy, with a view to becoming a headteacher. In January this year he took on the role of head at The Causeway School in Eastbourne and is loving the challenge. www.openworkshop.nesta.org.uk. In January 2012, Caireen also launched Cascade which helps people be creative by running high-quality craft workshops focused on using preloved and vintage materials. The business is growing and developing, and the Spring 2013 programme will be available soon. ]]> tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2011:/we-do//2.134 2011-05-18T11:31:42Z 2011-05-18T11:55:37Z

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com Now any school or group of schools can set up their own student commission drawing on the work of Harris. We have produced this online toolkit which includes guidance, tips and ideas as well as hundreds of resources for schools to adapt. Go to www.studentcommission.org.uk.]]> tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2011:/we-do//2.132 2011-05-16T00:31:07Z 2011-05-16T10:02:48Z

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com Since Christmas we have both been busy supporting the Harris Student Commission develop its final recommendations. And, after two years of enquiry, the commission has published its ‘new design for learning' (Download file). We are hugely proud to have been part of it. So much that’s positive has already happened, for everyone involved, but the best work of the commission is yet to come as the academies set out to fulfil the seventeen entitlements for all learners and teachers. “The most significant skill I have gained from the commission is the ability to question things rather than accept them at face value.” Matthew Gavin, Year 10, Harris Academy Merton The commission is launching the new design for learning at the Whole Education ‘Whose Curriculum Is It Anyway?’ event on 16 May 2011.]]> tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2011:/we-do//2.131 2011-05-09T21:23:16Z 2011-05-09T21:48:24Z

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com As some of you will know, things have changed a little for GoddardPayne in the past month or so. For some time Gene has been considering a move back into schools – a chance to put all he’s learnt and experienced in the past seven years into practice – and as of two weeks ago he has taken on the role of Vice Principal at Harris Academy Purley.]]> We have worked with the Harris Federation for a number of years – directly with senior leaders and with students and teachers as part of the brilliant and inspirational Harris Student Commission on Learning. It has felt like a natural progression for Gene to take on a role within the federation and he is enjoying every minute of it (from the first day he’s been full of stories about the kids and even the commute isn’t so bad). Caireen will hold the fort at GoddardPayne for the foreseeable future. Having written two publications and delivered ThePublicOffice in Essex during the last couple of months she’s looking forward to a Learning Futures film project (with Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Innovation Unit), sharing learning from Radical Efficiency in Early Years (with Julie Temperley, NESTA and Innovation Unit), and any other interesting possibilities that might present themselves. We hope you’ll stay in touch. (Gene can still be contacted on his mobile and at gene@goddardpayne.co.uk) tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2011:/we-do//2.129 2011-02-08T10:42:37Z 2011-02-08T10:50:09Z

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com New Philanthropy Capital on an approach to demonstrating value for money in early years settings is proving to be a brilliant piece of work. It involves creating a toolkit and process to help the locality teams involved in the Radical Efficiency in Early Years programme look carefully at the costs of their new service ideas and compare this to the existing service based on unit costs. We're testing it in Bradford, Reading and Knowsley in the next couple of weeks so will see if they're as wowed by it all as we are. ]]> tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2010:/we-do//2.127 2010-12-14T22:39:24Z 2010-12-15T04:38:56Z

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com We're really chuffed that the practical guide 'Using social challenge prizes to support people powered innovation' (Download file) has been published by NESTA. It's been a while in the making but Caireen has enjoyed writing and creating it with the fantastic Vicki Purewal and Kerry McCarthy. The prize approach offers a completely new way of funding specific outcomes and supporting community-led innovation so we're looking forward to seeing how others respond. ]]> tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2010:/we-do//2.126 2010-10-14T20:12:13Z 2010-12-09T22:49:42Z

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com We've joined forces with Julie Temperley to be the Learning Partner for the NESTA and Innovation Unit Radical Efficiency project. This programme is working with six local providers of early years children's services, front-line staff and communities to transform locality-based services so that they significantly improve outcomes for young families and demonstrate a 30+% reduction in costs within three years. We'll be working with the team and the projects to tell the story of the innovation process and the impacts of the new services. ]]> tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2010:/we-do//2.125 2010-09-08T08:02:20Z 2010-09-08T11:11:03Z

Today we're running a session with NEF and NESTA for the co-production practitioners network. We're working with them to consider how they want the network to develop over the coming year, in particular focusing on the specific value they...

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com Today we're running a session with NEF and NESTA for the co-production practitioners network. We're working with them to consider how they want the network to develop over the coming year, in particular focusing on the specific value they want it to create for members. It's been strange but good to be thinking hard about networks again. ]]> tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2010:/we-do//2.124 2010-09-07T09:45:41Z 2010-09-12T19:53:16Z

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com We have been working with the Harris Student Commission on Learning for over two years now. This new publication brings together what the commission has learned since it published '12 early ideas about learning' in October 2009. Students have designed and undertaken practical enquiry projects with teachers and have visited High Tech High, San Diego, and Charter Schools in New York. We are proud to have worked with them to write this digest of their findings. Download file]]> tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2010:/we-do//2.119 2010-07-08T06:00:00Z 2010-07-07T22:13:42Z

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com Age Unlimited programme. Portsmouth Diocesan Council for Social Responsibility are developing the service that will 'prescribe' a programme of volunteering to unemployed patients in their 50s and 60s through GP practices.]]> tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2010:/we-do//2.120 2010-07-08T00:01:07Z 2010-07-07T22:11:50Z

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com Today Caireen is working with the radical efficiency team from the Innovation Unit to deliver a horizon scanning workshop @ NESTA as part of their Transforming Early Years programme. We've developed the resources for the event - a set of 25 case studies from UK and around the world which showcase radical innovation. ]]> The examples range from the Shodh Yatra (India) to www.tyze.com to MoTeCH (Ghana). All show how innovators have reframed the challenges they face to tackle them more effectively and how they have deployed the full range of resources available to them - from technology to community capacity. tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2010:/we-do//2.118 2010-07-01T15:05:12Z 2010-07-06T15:36:35Z

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com learning paper from Innovation Exchange's Next Practice Programme has recently been published. The work Gene has been doing with the Prince's Trust 'Gatemate' campaign is featured (page 24/25). Project Leader Clara Clint talks about the support Gene has given...]]> "Working with Gene has helped to keep the project focused. Through regular meetings we discuss what’s going well and what the challenges are. Gene helps me and the campaign team to take a step back from the project and put it in perspective. He helps with positive motivation, and facilitation of meetings to make them more productive. It’s really good to have someone independent to the project be honest about what’s going well and what barriers are coming up." The consultancy intervention has helped GateMate’s leaders to explore new ideas and new thinking. Gene encouraged them to take a cross-sectoral and international perspective on their work, which has ultimately increased the partnership group’s ambitions for the project: "We invited some experts from other fields completely unrelated to the world of work that we are in who came in and told us about campaigns in their world. We’ve looked to farther ambitious campaigns and thought ‘we can do that'."]]> tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2010:/we-do//2.117 2010-05-13T14:07:25Z 2010-07-06T15:04:39Z

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com Yesterday we had the pleasure of running a workshop on prototyping with the eleven successful Age Unlimited projects being supported by NESTA. It was a tough gig that forced us to think about and work through how you can effectively use prototyping to test the core concepts and assumptions behind a new service, as well as exploring specific interventions or touch-points.]]> tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2010:/we-do//2.116 2010-05-06T09:26:46Z 2010-05-06T10:32:46Z

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com We have been working with colleagues at the Harris Federation and Nesta to take what has been learned in the process of setting up the fantastic Student Commission on Learning and to share it with others. The result is a written toolkit publication and accompanying website that's freely available to schools, local authorities and other organisations interested in establishing their own student commissions. Download the publication here and go to the website (www.studentcommission.org.uk) for more info and resources.]]> tag:www.goddardpayne.com,2010:/we-do//2.115 2010-03-29T15:41:14Z 2010-04-01T10:01:21Z

Caireen http://www.goddardpayne.com Read more about the schools and the programme.]]>