How can trusts create a culture of school improvement?
Episode description
One of the Department For Education's Trust Quality Description Pillars sets out expectations for trusts to create a culture of continuous improvement. Cleary defined in this pillar is the need for an effective strategy to maintain the performance of existing schools and improve the performance of new ones that join the trust.
Key to delivering improvement is being able to implement a centralised performance management process, benchmarking school performance across student, workforce and financial metrics, as a mechanism for sharing best practice.
Iona Jackson, Head of Insights for Edurio, and Nicholas Clark, Senior Product Manager for IRIS Software Group, discuss how trusts are combining and monitoring workforce, student and finance data to discover the real drivers of positive pupil outcomes.