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What Causes G&T Students to Underachieve

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Inside Information is a publication produced by the NTRP that brings together current practitioner research themed along a particular area. Each article features a concise description of the research, interviews with the researchers, suggestions on how to put the findings into practice in your own work, and links to further useful information. You can find out more, and read past editions, here.

The author of this article, Ben Rule, set out to investigate the causes of underachievement by asking G&T students from Year 10 to work as peer coaches with 15 underachieving Year 8 G&T students. The coaches helped Ben to identify the causes of under achievement through collecting interview and questionnaire data.

Philippa Cordingley at the SSAT Teaching Schools Conference

My session at the forthcoming SSAT conference aims to help school leaders, teachers and CPD facilitators use the new Standard for CPD to create a dynamic and coherent environment for continuing professional development and learning. We will be concentrating on Ofsted’s frequently repeated challenge to schools to evaluate the impact of CPD more effectively; and looking at ways of doing this that also enhance the quality of the process for teachers and for their pupils.

Here’s a mini blog that I hope will tempt you to join us!

Beyond Data: Gaining and Sustaining Momentum for School Improvement

Leaders need a holistic view of their school if they are to set priorities that will truly accelerate learning for all of their pupils and especially for the most vulnerable, says Philippa Cordingley

Beyond Data

As a school leader you have lots of data and information at your disposal. But new research exploring what helps schools to build momentum and become exceptional suggests that leaders who want to accelerate progress need more than data: they need a holistic, evidence-based, bird’s-eye view of their school, organised around questions capable of firing everyone’s commitment and imagination.

Fulfill Your Professional Development Resolutions with CUREE CPD

To support the recently published New Standard for Teachers' Professional Development, CUREE are proud to announce a series of professional development opportunities deeply rooted in leading evidence and CUREE’s extensive expertise.

Following on from launch event workshops in the West Midlands and London with members of the expert panel that helped design the New Standard, these exciting programmes will help colleagues make effective use of the New Standard and further promote its contributions to school improvement.

Increase the Impact of Your CPD on Staff and Pupil Learning

Stepping stones and springboards: the nature and role of research based tools in closing the gap

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On the 16th November, 2016, Philippa presented a keynote at the Cannons Park TSA Conference 'Minding the Gap Between Research and Practice'.

Her presentation 'Stepping stones and springboards: the nature and role of research based tools in closing the gap' can be downloaded at the link below.

Peer Review

Are you looking to work together with fellow schools to evaluate your practice in a mutually-beneficial partnership? CUREE's programme for Peer Review training draws on successes in conducting over 60 school reviews, all scaffolded by research-based tools and expertise in helping leaders use them, to support colleagues in conducting impactful Peer Reviews.

Beyond Levels - Goverance and the role of National Leaders of Governance

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A presentation to the LearningFirst event at Sheffield, Hallam University on 5th November 2016. Governors (and trustees) are now firmly ensconsed in the leadership accountability system which is now a joint enterprise with heads and other senior leaders. This short presentation outlined the contradictory pressures on governors, particularly about their level of engagement with pupil performance, and what they needed to exercise their role effectively. The presentation went on to outline how National Leaders of Governance can support governing bodies in this.

Teacher Effectiveness Enhancement Programme (TEEP) Evaluation Report

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CUREE evaluated the TEEP programme as offered by SSAT. Our role was to gather information on

  • How teachers are embedding and developing TEEP in the classroom.
  • How school leaders are contributing to developing the impact of the programme.
  • How learners are responding and developing positive attitudes to learning.

The overall aim was to learn from schools what their experiences have been both pre and post TEEP training, what has proven most effective and any areas where they feel TEEP support can be improved.  All schools took part voluntarily and they were assured complete confidentiality to encourage them to provide robust evidence about their involvement in the programme, its strengths and areas for development.