As a HEP member, your school is part of a local school improvement network: a trusted community of 12-15 schools working together to improve outcomes for children and young people.
HEP: The glue in the system
HEP provides the coordination, expertise and trusted relationships needed to turn collaboration into sustained school improvement. Helping schools identify shared priorities and translate them into purposeful action. We bring together evidence, local intelligence and specialist expertise; broker support; connect leaders and schools; and share effective practice and learning across the wider system.
As the glue between schools, HEP creates the conditions for honest professional dialogue, collective responsibility and mutual support. Schools maintain their distinctive identity and autonomy while benefiting from the strength of working together.
Each network brings school leaders together to:
Locally rooted, connected across the system
Our networks are rooted in the communities they serve:
- Six Network Learning Communities in Haringey
- Two Enfield School Improvement Networks
- Three Area Partnerships in Waltham Forest.
Through these strong local partnerships, the networks strengthen individual schools, build collective capacity and enable school leaders to lead together on behalf of children and young people, staff and communities.
Each network has access to our HEP peer review programme. Taking the best elements of peer review approaches, we have developed a facilitated model HEP’s peer review model brings school leaders together in a rigorous, reciprocal process focused on continuous improvement. Each review is shaped around priorities identified by the host school and undertaken by experienced peer leaders who gather and consider a range of evidence.
The process is collaborative and developmental; done with, not to, schools. It provides constructive support and challenge, identifies strengths and areas for improvement, and helps schools agree on clear actions. Reviews also support leadership development, strengthen professional relationships and enable effective practice and learning to be shared across the network and wider partnership.