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.
Applies to England
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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.