Values

 

  • we foster open and collaborative approaches, both within CELSI and in our external work;
  • we value considered professional experience as evidence;
  • we consider individual professional performance in its organisational and social context;
  • we seek to support, collaborate or work in close partnership with those working for the personal, educational and social progress of young people, particularly those in the most challenging circumstances;
  • we seek to listen before we negotiate or offer; we believe that a focus on learning is the cornerstone of the professional development of all those working in education, whether school student, teacher or other adult;
  • we believe passionately that individual teachers, groups of teachers, schools, LEAs and other educational agencies or individuals can make a significant difference to the achievement of all students;
  • we try to increase public confidence in the state system of education, and to increase the constituency of para-professional support for the public provision of educational services.