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    • Teacher Led Development Work >
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    • Previous events >
      • Event Programme
      • Virtual Network Event - 9th February 2022 >
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      • International Virtual Network Event ​17th October 2020 >
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      • VIRTUAL INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2020
      • 2019 Annual Conference
      • The HertsCam 20 year Anniversary Symposium
      • Accounts of past events
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    • Vignettes: The Participant Experience
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The HertsCam 20 year Anniversary Symposium
​The symposium and gala dinner that took place on 12th July was a significant milestone in HertsCam’s history. The aim was to look back over the 20 years since the beginning of the partnership that became HertsCam and to think about its future direction. The means to do this was an extended discussion stimulated and framed by an exhibition, a presentation and a dinner. The conversation was supported with tools designed to enable everyone to focus.
 
The exhibition depicted breakthrough practices and key insights in the evolution of the network organised according to twelve propositions about teacher and school development. We used the tried and tested Gallery Walk technique to enable everyone to discuss each of the propositions. The presentation consisted of a brief narrative offered by David Frost who has been a key figure in HertsCam’s development. His story began with his work in Kent, antecedent to the foundation of HertsCam and accounted for the emergence of the network as an independent teacher-led organisation. Each of the twelve stations in the exhibition was facilitated by network members who also recorded key features of the discussion.
 
After an elegant champagne reception on the college lawn, the discussion continued over dinner. The tool used at dinner asked everyone to talk about and scribble comments on: What? Why? What next? How? and What else? Conversations continued in the bar after dinner and at breakfast the next day.
 

And a few photos of the event can be seen in the slideshow below.