The Evidence People
Two leading education organisations have formed a partnership to help schools in which progress has stalled.
The partnership is between the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) and the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE). It is being announced as school leaders from across the country attend the Inspiring Leadership Conference in Birmingham.
On 6 June we launched the report of the latest project CUREE, in collaboration with Teach First, has undertaken on schools accelerating progress for vulnerable pupils. The full report is available for download now, and you can read the first of Philippa Cordingley's blogs about the report's findings here.
CUREE has spent a year exploring characteristics shared by schools which are struggling to establish/sustain momentum in their progress towards reaching high-performing status, and investigating how these schools' individual contexts and circumstances relate to the broader evidence base around what exactly makes schools successful in making progress. The project builds on previous work on characteristics of high-performing schools (the report of which can be read here).
The National Teacher Research Panel was set up over 15 years ago by CUREE supported by a group of national education agencies (most of which no longer exist). It had three main goals:
Kenton School has a thriving learning community, with all staff co-creators of their professional learning. Val Wigham explains how it works.
CUREE has, in collaboration with Teach First, concluded a research project continuing on from our previous work on characteristics of high-performing schools. As an extension of that project, CUREE has spent a year exploring characteristics shared by schools which are struggling to establish and/or continue momentum in their progress towards reaching high-performing status, and investigating how these schools’ individual contexts and circumstances relate to the broader evidence base around what exactly makes schools successful in making progress.
Read more about the publication here, and Philippa's blog about the report can be found here.
Sponsored by the National College for Teaching and Leadership as part of Closing the Gap: Test and Learn and supported by CfBT Education Trust.
CUREE are delighted to be a part of the Closing the Gap: Test and Learn project with the Response to Intervention (RtI) intervention, and we are really looking forward to working with the allocated schools. We will be running two full days of training and one half day of training- details of dates and venues are below.
CUREE was pleased to support Osiris develop an approach to evaluating its Outstanding Teachers Intervention (OTI). The tools created for this project will help Osiris collect ‘hard’ data, such as student progress and observation outcomes, to evaluate the impact of teacher participation in the Intervention. In addition, CUREE produced activities to capture soft outcomes, which we know are important elements of effective CPD. These included participants engagement in collaborative professional learning, use of evidence, and developing a growth mindset.
AfA is a whole school improvement framework focused on the 20% of vulnerable and SEND learners. It works through 4 dimensions: Leadership of Achievement for All, Teaching & Learning, Parental Engagement and Wider Outcomes. Schools identify and champion who is an SLT member & target year groups.
