Research and analysis

Sustainable improvement in multi-school groups

Research to identify how school improvement providers with strategic responsibility for multiple schools facilitate sustainable school improvement.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 13 December 2018

Applies to England

Documents

Sustainable improvement in multi-school groups

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78105-954-8, DFE-2017/038

PDF, 2.5 MB, 196 pages

Details

The research focused on 3 questions.

How do these school improvement providers:

• identify the improvement needs of schools and the appropriate solutions to those needs?
• implement necessary changes in schools in order to achieve sustainable improvement?
• measure and monitor improvement?

It identified 2 sets of high-level practices, across the sample of multi-academy trusts (MATs) and federations, seen as necessary for sustainable improvement at scale:

• the five-school improvement ‘fundamentals’
• the five strategic areas for sustainability

The report explores these practices in detail.

It is for senior leaders and anyone with an interest in school improvement.

Published 13 December 2018