The document discusses using evidence to inform leadership approaches and school improvement. It notes achievement gaps between students from different backgrounds. Evidence from research summarized in the Education Endowment Foundation's Toolkit can help schools identify possible solutions and evaluate the impact of decisions. The Foundation has funded over 50 projects working with hundreds of schools and thousands of students to build evidence on interventions like Saturday schools and music instruction.

1. Challenge Partners Conference 2013
Using evidence to inform your leadership approach and
support school improvement
Kevan Collins
9th July 2013
info@eefoundation.org.uk
www.educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk

2. The attainment gap
2011: 27%
2011: 20%
2011: 19%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%
School
readiness
at 5
Attainment
at 11
Attainment
at 16

3. Evidence can help

4. Applying evidence in practice
External evidence summarised in the Toolkit
can be used to inform choices.
Step 2: Identifying possible solutions
Evaluate the impact of your decisions and
identify potential improvements for the future.
Step 4: Did it work?
Mobilise the knowledge and use the findings
to inform the work of the school to grow or stop
the intervention.
Step 5: Securing and spreading change
Applying the ingredients of effective
implementation.
Step 3: Giving the idea the best chance of success
Identify school priorities using internal data
and professional judgement.
Step 1: What do you want to achieve?

5. Our work to date
• So far, we have funded 56
projects working with 1,800
schools and 300,000
pupils, building on the 5,500
studies in the Toolkit.
• Examples: What is the
impact of Saturday
schools, learning to play a
musical instrument, or
engaging in lesson study?