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Accelerate pupil progress with the new SKEIN>Momentum service

logoSkein Momentum is a diagnostic and development process which enables schools where progress has stalled to gain or regain momentum. Delivered by a partnership of CUREE and ASCL, it identifies several key building blocks to help school leaders ensure that all the core activities in their schools are working together and heading in the right direction.

Using information provided by the school via documents, pupil performance data, interviews and discussions, focus groups, observations and surveys, the service produces a confidential evaluation report containing detailed, practical and evidence-based recommendations. School leaders are then supported through one or a number of action research processes for implementing their plan, followed by a concise implementation and progress review

Beyond Levels - Goverance and the role of National Leaders of Governance

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A presentation to the LearningFirst event at Sheffield, Hallam University on 5th November 2016. Governors (and trustees) are now firmly ensconsed in the leadership accountability system which is now a joint enterprise with heads and other senior leaders. This short presentation outlined the contradictory pressures on governors, particularly about their level of engagement with pupil performance, and what they needed to exercise their role effectively. The presentation went on to outline how National Leaders of Governance can support governing bodies in this.

ResearchED London 2016 Gaining and Sustaining Momentum

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On the 10th September, 2016, Philippa Cordingley presented at the annual ResearchED Conference in London, a practitioner-led event attended by educators and researchers from across the UK. Philippa's session drew on the recently published Teach First Gaining and Sustaining Momentum Report and the newly launched SKEIN Momentum product. 

The challenge of maths and English teaching in the Further Education and Skills Sector in England

English and maths in the FE and skills sector

The Education and Training Foundation was tasked with  implementing a new plan to improve the reach of numeracy and literacy teaching at level 2 including GCSEs in the country’s vocational education sector. The objective was to create a cohort of “work entrants” with world class numeracy and literacy skills and knowledge.

ETF Evaluation

CUREE is currently working with the Education and Training Foundation, the body set up by the Department for Education to represent and support the Further Education sector, to provide a framework for structuring evidence-based evaluation of their various services to develop and build capacity amongst FE colleges and work based training providers.