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Making an impact
in schools
(by understanding
their current
priorities)
Louis Coiffait
@LouisMMCoiffait
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NAHT EdgePearson
Consultancy
Cambridge
TTA
Westminster Council
York/
UCLA
MinisterMP
California
A brief intro
?
Start-up
Gov. Dept.
Lobbying
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Setting the scene…
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Policy drivers
Recession (AUSTERITY)
1. Autonomy; academies, free schools, diminished Local Authority funding etc.
2. Accountability; Ofsted, Ebacc, rising ‘standards’, choice etc.
3. What of capability? Recruit, train etc.
Ever more instrumentalism / measurement / performativity ? (the ‘tyranny of impact’)
Schools at the sharp end of constant/ multiple policy churn
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Unions united / effective?
Lots of good work behind the scenes –
helping individual teachers, batting
away some barmy policies
How much energy do unions spend
collaborating vs competing?
Have they had ‘big wins’?
Gove’s exit?
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Language matters
Government (and the press) can help
create a climate of hope (not fear) by
using appropriate language…
How do the
public see
education
professionals
today?
Is that
changing?
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Stubborn achievement gaps
NAO
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What are schools for now?
NAO
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•Funding, funding, funding… (inc. Value For Money VFM)
2
•Collaborating creatively to get the staff needed
3
•Using evidence to inform professional judgment
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3 school priorities today
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1: School funding cuts
The Institute for Fiscal Studies predicts
12% real terms budget cuts
£450m of ‘non-school’ cuts also to be
found for the Chancellor’s Comprehensive
Spending Review (CSR)
Current funding system is unequal/unfair,
we need a national funding formula from
government, they have a duty to ensure
all schools have the resources they need
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1: The London weighting
NAO
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1: PP funds plug gaps
Tough to prioritise PP funding on some students in austere climate of cuts…
EEF/Sutton Trust found 50% of primary and 44% of secondary teachers said their schools fund activities that would otherwise have been cut due to budget pressures
The NAO found 45% of schools faced real-terms cuts e.g. 5 per cent real terms cuts to 16 per cent of the most disadvantaged secondary schools, even with extra PP funding
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1: Primary funding
NAO
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1: Secondary funding
NAO
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1: VFM, VFM, VFM…
Value for money, especially around the
Pupil Premium, will be scrutinised more
and more (£2.5bn spent on 2m PP students
this year)
NAO recently found an over-reliance on
‘high-cost’ PP approaches
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
toolkit shows cost and impact
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1: What schools do with PP
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1: The EEF toolkit
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1: PP value for money
1:1 tuition (in 71% of schools, ££££/5, +4 months) vs small groups (£££/5, +4 months)
vs peer-to-peer (25% are, ££/5, +6 months)
What’s the cost/impact of using extra teaching assistants? 71% of schools do, relatively expensive ££££/5 (£430m spent), not that effective (+1 month) unless used well
Do schools use feedback effectively? (63% of schools focus on it, can be cheap (££/5) and effective (+8 months), but EEF/ST found only 6% of teachers/leaders prioritise spending on feedback
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1: New school tactics
Some schools are getting creative -
making the most of the freedoms and
support they have e.g. playing the game
But also in how they share their
challenges, the government does respond
to pressure e.g. Vic Goddard’s letter
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1: HEIs and schools
Can higher education institutions help
schools (given their own challenges)?
- collaborate closer than ever before
- Be entrepreneurial about partnerships,
funding and bids
- share resources, assets … risks
- Local/regional/national ed. systems
- Usable research about VFM/effectiveness
1
•Funding, funding, funding… (inc. Value For Money VFM)
2
•Collaborating creatively to get the staff needed
3
•Using evidence to inform professional judgment
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3 school priorities today
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2: Staffing collaboration
Schools can work collaboratively and
creatively together to get staff they
need (recruit/train)
Current received wisdom: The single best
way to help all learners (especially the
disadvantaged) is through ‘great teachers
who can deliver high quality lessons’
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2: Staffing challenges
But where will they come from? Especially
in MFL, physics and maths.
Where will the next generation of middle
and senior leader come from?
Perfect storm: we face a dip in the
number of graduates at the same time as a
surge in student numbers, as well as a
rebounding economy offering alternative,
better paid-careers
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2: New teachers vs target
The Conversation/DfE
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2: Staffing solutions
Government urgently needs to do more to
make teaching an attractive, rewarding
career for life
Can schools (and HEIs) work together
more? Through secondments, CPD,
mentoring, shadowing, research, shared
roles, projects and co-created solutions
Oh and teacher training…
1
•Funding, funding, funding… (inc. Value For Money VFM)
2
•Collaborating creatively to get the staff needed
3
•Using evidence to inform professional judgment
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3 school priorities today
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3: Evidence informed?
NAO found many schools using ineffective
PP approaches without challenge for years
Early days for teaching becoming a truly
‘evidence-informed profession’? To what
extent is this possible and/or
preferable?
Although it’s up from 52% in 2012, still
only 64% of school leaders are using the
EEF toolkit to inform their PP spending
The College of Teaching in its infancy
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3: School use of evidence
Yes every school/class/student is
different…
But high performing schools focus on
variation between classes and
systematically test what works for each
of their students
They use evidence to inform both practice
and management decisions
Cycle: Hypothesis – Experiment – Evaluate
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3: How do schools decide?
EEF/Sutton
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3: How do schools decide?NAO
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3: Good practice
Good schools also embed innovation and
change into their teaching and learning,
as well as their management practices
They have a clear idea of what the
evidence says and what they’re currently
testing in their school
Can government, Ofsted and others give
them more trust/time/resources?
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3: HEIs & school evidence
How usable is the evidence you create?
Can you help create virtuous cycles
between theory, research, practice and
policy?
Are you working with brokers/
intermediaries to help disseminate your
evidence?
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Thank you…
Questions and discussion