ISBL National Conference 2024

ISBL are using the Operational Excellence research to underpin this year’s national conference. Looking at the key ingredients identified through the findings and aligning these insights to learning outcomes with the ISBL professional standards to ensure that this year’s national conference provides the greatest opportunity for focused professional development, practitioner insights and shared learning opportunities.

The conference programme is being developed following consultation with members and oversight by the ISBL Events Special Interest Group (SIG), which comprises professionals from maintained schools and academies, every phase, and all types of schools to ensure that the programme reflects the needs of practitioners at all career stages and setting type.

The events team have also curated 16 workshop sessions with over 75 per cent being delivered by ISBL members and fellows offering good practice and advice on embedding practice, consideration of barriers and how these can be prevented or mitigated.

The conference will draw on the findings of the research including the inclusion of speakers, panel representatives and workshop leaders whose schools and academies participated in the research and can offer real insights into current and future practices being deployed.

The national conference will explore how school leaders can most effectively use their resources, including personnel, to deliver the greatest opportunities for pupil progress and development as we enter this new phase of education delivery in the UK.