Understanding How Schools And MATs Can Transform Outcomes By Putting Evaluation At The Heart Of School Improvement Strategies in Partnership With ImpactED
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The Education Showroom is delighted and honoured to partner with ImpactEd, an award winning organisation empowering schools and MATs to evaluate and understand impact across pupils’ attendance, socio-emotional skills and health & wellbeing.
ImpactEd has been expanding rapidly and developing their support to schools and MATs over the last 5 years, growing to support over 1,000 schools across the country to better understand their school community, their impact, and direct their resources to maximise outcomes for young people.
With ever increasing pressures on teacher workload and physical resources and the longer lasting impacts of the pandemic, it is more important than ever that schools have a clear picture of what’s working and in what ways for their school community.
ImpactEd ensures schools and MATs can easily, effectively and rigorously measure impact of interventions and programmes to make informed, timely decisions. Schools and MATs work with ImpactEd to explore a range of areas of their provision. This can include anything from running school-wide diagnostics to understanding pupils’ health and wellbeing, assessing and comparing interventions’ to uncovering the underlying drivers of low attendance and/or poor student behaviour in their setting.
ImpactEd’s unique platform streamlines this data collection and enables you as a senior leader to combine data you already collect such as attendance and behaviour, with academically validated measures including wellbeing, motivation, and anxiety. The academically validated measures enable schools to understand the social and emotional value of their work and compare impact across different pupil groups so they can be confident how their interventions are impacting specific groups and specific young people in their context. The ImpactEd platform integrates with school MIS systems and live reporting then allows schools to track progress of individual pupils and act on the insights and data real time as well as throughout the year.
Schools and MATs work with a dedicated Partnership Manager throughout the year who is able to provide expertise, training and support needed to run meaningful impact evaluations. ImpactEd offer schools and MATs regular catch ups, staff training, and they receive regular impact reports, so they can build the capacity for evaluation in their setting and empower teachers to engage in evaluation and make increasingly informed and evidence-led decisions.
The ImpactEd approach is to start by understanding your setting, where you are ‘at’ in terms of developing evaluation in school and what your priorities are. With you, your Partnership Manager will then create an evaluation framework and work with you to roll out the evaluations across your school or MAT. This could be through as little as one short meeting, or for some of our larger more complex work across a MAT, this could be through a workshop with a number of colleagues.
ImpactEd is further developing it’s community of schools and encouraging schools/MATs to share insights, findings, and impactful interventions with others. This will be up and running next year and empowering schools to share what’s working most effectively in their context and help others with similar challenges.
If you, your colleagues and your school/MAT would like to understand more about your school community and the impact your resources are having through easy to implement, academically rigorous, and live reporting, then The Education Showroom and ImpactEd would like to invite you to register for this free online Spotlight event and have the opportunity to hear from, meet and interact with ImpactEd and find out how they can transform evaluation and decision making in your setting.
The Agenda
18:00: Interview with Lucy Preston (Head of School Delivery and Engagement) – We learn all about ImpactEd, the history, heritage and how they help and support schools/MATs across the country and beyond. We also dive into areas including impact case studies, data collection, and using impact data.
18:15: ImpactEd will facilitate three online themed breakout rooms and invite you to attend each of these themed rooms for 10 minutes each. These themed online breakout rooms will showcase some of the different ways schools and MATs use ImpactEd, from health and wellbeing diagnostics, to understanding the drivers of low attendance and assessing specific interventions.
18:45: On completion of the three themed breakout rooms, you will be invited back into the communal online meeting room where we have a Q&A session where you and your colleagues are invited to ask Lucy and her team any further questions you may have.
19:00: End of spotlight