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Welcome to our latest Spring offering, ever-so-slightly delayed by the onset of some very wintry weather! Please forward this newsletter on to appropriate collegues.
There is an awful lot coming up in the few remaining weeks of this very short term. Next week we look forward to welcoming colleagues from across the West to The Blue School in Wells to begin the Leading Learning Programme - three days of high quality, evidence-based CPD for CPD leaders in schools.
We're also excited to be involved with work in the West Somerset Opportunity Area which will focus on transitions, teaching assistants and Early Years provision.
As ever, full details are on our website where you can also sign up to receive this newsletter. Do get in touch to find out more.
"SCHOOL-LED SUPPORT FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE"
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NEW GUIDANCE TO SUPPORT SCHOOLS TO PUT EVIDENCE TO WORK IN THEIR CLASSROOMS
A new guidance report from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) aims to give schools the support they need to put evidence to work in their classrooms and implement new programmes and approaches effectively.
Putting Evidence to Work: A School’s Guide to Implementation highlights how good and thoughtful implementation is crucial to the success of any teaching and learning strategy. It offers six evidence-based recommendations to help schools give their innovations the very best chance by working. The guidance can be applied to any school improvement decision: programmes of practices; whole school or targeted approach; internally or externally generated ideas.
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EVIDENCE FOR IMPACT
A new version of the Evidence 4 Impact (E4I) website is now live. E4I is an independent service that provides teachers and school leaders with accessible information on which educational interventions have been shown to be effective. It uses a simple evidence rating system to show whether an intervention’s effectiveness has been established.
The new website rates interventions by their impact on a range of educational outcomes at primary or secondary level including maths, reading, writing and science. You can tailor results to the specific needs of a class or school, and the data be easily searched by key stage, targeted group and type of practice.
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APPLICATIONS FOR STRATEGIC SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT FUND NOW OPEN
The third round of applications for the Department for Education's Strategic School Improvement Fund is now open. To help ensure the Fund is spent in ways that are most likely to make a difference to pupil outcomes, the EEF is providing support to potential applicants on how to develop evidence-informed projects.
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NOW RECRUITING
Seventeen EEF-funded projects are currently looking for schools and post-16 settings to take part in trials of high-potential projects.
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FUNDING
The EEF currently have three grant-funding rounds open for applications:
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Professional development and leadership in the early years – Deadline: 5pm Friday 16 March
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Science Teacher Retention – Deadline 5pm Thursday 22 March
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Improving Science Education – Deadline: 5pm Monday 9 April
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BLOG: PUTTING EVIDENCE TO WORK IN YOUR CLASSROOM
“Ultimately, it doesn’t matter how great an educational idea or intervention is in principle; what really matters is how it manifests itself in the day-to-day work of people in schools.” Shaun Allison, Director of Durrington Research School, introduces the EEF’s latest guidance report, Putting Evidence to Work: A School’s Guide to Implementation.
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BLOG: 15 KEY LESSONS LEARNED IN THE EEF’S FIRST SIX YEARS
The EEF recently published a report on the attainment gap. Together with an analysis of the attainment gap in England on a range of measures, it includes 15 key lessons on closing the attainment gap from the EEF’s first six years.
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EEF’S PROMISING PROJECTS PAGES
The Promising Projects section on EEF’s website is a collection of EEF evaluation reports that have demonstrated a positive impact on pupil attainment in English schools. There are sixteen projects showcased – approximately 20% of EEF’s published trials – ranging from early years to Key Stage 4 and focusing on a variety of topics: literacy, numeracy, writing, metacognition, oral language.
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researchED
researchED is on a mission to raise research literacy amongst teachers, bring people together, promote collaboration, increase awareness, promote research and explore what works. These values chime with the work of the Research Schools Network, and a number of our Research Schools are hosting researchED events.
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