Developing a Quality Framework as a Music Education Hub
Quality is paramount. The quality of leadership, management, teaching and learning will have an impact on the outcome for children and young people.
Over the past 12 months, Telford & Wrekin Music Education Hub has been developing a Hub Quality Framework to help develop a single language for quality across our Hub partnership such as In Harmony, our Youth Music Fund C work, Artsmark, working with NPOs and our developing Cultural Education Partnership.
Our aim is to develop a single overarching framework to our Music Education Hub work and partnership working, helping to communicate in one language around quality and our Hub work. The Seven quality principles have been developed as a result of close collaboration between the Arts Council England and arts and cultural organisations that work with children and young people.To help us as a Music Education Hub reflect on our vision and values, including focusing on what quality means and how to achieve it, help us develop a common framework for planning, development and communication, improve our Music Education Hub evaluation systems and help us consider as a Music Education Hub how we involve children and young people more in our thinking.
The seven quality principles are:
- Striving for excellence and innovation
- Being authentic
- Being exciting, inspiring and engaging
- Ensuring a positive and inclusive experience
- Actively involving children and young people
- Enabling personal progression
- Developing belonging and ownership
Under each of the 7 Quality Principles we have been exploring as a Hub what ‘ingredients’ might sit under each of the principles and what practice we might want to see taking place. The 7 Quality Principle should help us as a Music Education Hub and our partners to reflect our joint vision and values, help us develop a common framework for planning, development and communication across our Hub, support our evaluation and feedback systems and involve the voice of young people more in our Hub.
This is working ‘live working’ document and to be reviewed by our Music Education Hub Strategy Group on a yearly basis as a framework based on learning from our evaluations, feedback, Music Education Hub Peer Support Programme and partners. This framework also feeds into our Musical Inclusion Strategy, Music Education Hub Business plan and our developing Musical Progression Strategy.