Playing the Learning Power Game – Champions’ Resource 2024

Hello and welcome.

You are reading this resource because you’ve been invited or selected or maybe even cajoled to help the school introduce and manage the development of students’ learning powers. This resource is designed to offer you, and colleagues in the same position, a comprehensive, practical guide to steer you through managing concerns that will arise when the school takes on this significant development programme. It offers questions, think pieces, frameworks, slide decks and diagrams to help you:

• feel reassured about the purpose, benefits and frameworks of learning power;
• explore important aspects of your new role in developing Learning Power throughout the school;
• introduce each unit of the programme to other staff;
• maintain momentum into the future;
• understand ways forward beyond this initial stage.

These issues are considered over 6 sections:

1. Getting Started: The first 3 months – things that need to be addressed by learning champions before the programme ‘Playing the Learning Power Game’ is introduced to the whole school;

2. The role of the Learning Champion – the essential background information about the role;

3. Supporting Unit 1 – Understanding Learning and Cultures;

4. Supporting Unit 2 – Classroom Cultures;

5. Supporting Unit 3 – Constructing Learning;

6. Supporting Unit 4 – Broadening the Range.