Upwards Convergence Journal

189. Ten Years of Learning, Leading, and Trusting – Part 2 of 4

Posted on: 25th June 2026

Categories: Collaborative Learning Communities, Leadership, Teaching Schools

Posted by: James Brown

Growing Together: Our First Decade (2012–2022)

In this second article in the series Jame Brown,  Managing Director of Inspiring Leaders, continues his description of their evolution.  James writes, when Inspiring Leaders was formed in 2012, it emerged in direct response …

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188. East Midlands Hub – A Learning Organisation Fifteen Years in the Making – Part Two

In this second article Simon Renshaw – Leicester & Leicestershire Teaching School Hub continues his description of the development of the East Midlands South Hub which is one of the founding Hubs in Challenge Partners and a Teaching School. The

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187. East Midlands South Hub – A Learning Organisation Fifteen Years in the Making – Part One

East Midlands South Hub – A Learning Organisation Fifteen Years in the Making – Part One

In these two articles Simon Renshaw,  Leicester & Leicestershire Teaching School Hub  describes the development of the East Midlands South Hub which is one

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186. Iceland Takes the Next Step: From Observation to Instructional Convergence

System improvement rarely begins with rhetoric. It begins with disciplined attention to practice.

Over recent years, Mats Rosenkvist and his colleagues Bernt Friberg and Urban Hansson have worked to build precisely that discipline: a rigorous, evidence-based framework for observing and …

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185. Choosing collaboration over competition – Part 1 of 4

Posted on: 12th November 2025

Categories: Collaborative Learning Communities, Teaching Schools

Posted by: James Brown

The First Step: Choosing Collaboration Over Competition: The Story Begins (2012)

This is the first of four articles concerning the development of the collaborative learning community – Inspiring Leaders.  The author is the Managing Director James Brown.

The formation of

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184. What concerns schools

Posted on: 23rd September 2025

Categories: Challenge Partners, Collaborative Learning Communities, School improvement

Posted by: George Berwick

What endures, what evolves and what school are engaging in to improve their pupils outcomes 

In May, we received a copy of Challenge Partners’ latest analysis of trends in education. This is the third in their series of reports analysing

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