Leading Together: using evidence to improve outcomes for children Nicki Shore, Frankie Sulke CBE, James Richardson & Suzanne Scott

The EEF/LLP partnership will seek to follow these key aims: • Secure the use of Teaching Assistant evidence and research in

every Lincolnshire school in order to improve outcomes for children

• Allow us, together, to learn about key features of effective and sustainable ‘scale-up’ of research evidence

• Support Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire schools to be ‘evidence ready’ and able to take on new evidence effectively, not just in relation to the TA work

• Our Grand Endeavour… • A bit of context... • Our objectives… • The Teaching Assistant

evidence… • Next steps…

This morning…

The EEF/LLP partnership will seek to follow these key aims: • Secure the use of Teaching Assistant evidence and research in

every Lincolnshire school in order to improve outcomes for children

• Allow us, together, to learn about key features of effective and sustainable ‘scale-up’ of research evidence

• Support Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire schools to be ‘evidence ready’ and able to take on new evidence effectively, not just in relation to the TA work

Improving life chances and choices

Our Grand Endeavour…

Closing the gaps

The EEF/LLP partnership will seek to follow these key aims: • Secure the use of Teaching Assistant evidence and research in

every Lincolnshire school in order to improve outcomes for children

• Allow us, together, to learn about key features of effective and sustainable ‘scale-up’ of research evidence

• Support Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire schools to be ‘evidence ready’ and able to take on new evidence effectively, not just in relation to the TA work

Our Grand Endeavour…

Closing the gaps

Ambition for all our children

The EEF/LLP partnership will seek to follow these key aims: • Secure the use of Teaching Assistant evidence and research in

every Lincolnshire school in order to improve outcomes for children

• Allow us, together, to learn about key features of effective and sustainable ‘scale-up’ of research evidence

• Support Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire schools to be ‘evidence ready’ and able to take on new evidence effectively, not just in relation to the TA work

It’s everybody’s

business

Our Grand Endeavour…

The Toolkit is a starting point for

making decisions

But… how to get the

evidence used?

at scale…!

The EEF/LLP partnership will seek to follow these key aims: • Secure the use of Teaching Assistant evidence and research in

every Lincolnshire school in order to improve outcomes for children

• Allow us, together, to learn about key features of effective and sustainable ‘scale-up’ of research evidence

• Support Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire schools to be ‘evidence ready’ and able to take on new evidence effectively, not just in relation to the TA work

Wanted a partner area: o determined and ambitious for its children o large enough to make it count o forward looking and innovative o up for the challenge with the infrastructure

and strategic direction to make it real o to compare with Yorkshire!

Why Lincolnshire?

The EEF/LLP partnership will seek to follow these key aims: • Secure the use of Teaching Assistant evidence and research in

every Lincolnshire school in order to improve outcomes for children

• Allow us, together, to learn about key features of effective and sustainable ‘scale-up’ of research evidence

• Support Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire schools to be ‘evidence ready’ and able to take on new evidence effectively, not just in relation to the TA work

Why Teaching Assistants?

Overview of value for money

Cost per pupil

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£0

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10

£1000

Feedback

Meta-cognitive

Peer tutoring Pre-school

1-1 tutoring Homework ICT

Outdoor

learning

Parental

involvement

Sports

Summer

schools

After school

Individualised

learning Learning

styles

Arts

Performance pay

Teaching

assistants

Smaller classes

Ability grouping

Phonics

The rise and rise of TAs

More TAs

than

teachers in

primary

~£5bn to

employ

~250,000 TAs in English

schools

More than

roads,

housing

Trebled

since

2000

Largest Pupil

Premium

investment

What an

opportunity!

LLP/EEF partnership

Through working in partnership with the LLP, we aim to achieve

the following key goals:

1. Secure the use of Teaching Assistant evidence and research

in every Lincolnshire school in order to improve outcomes

for children and young people;

2. To learn together about key features of effective and

sustainable ‘scale-up’ of the use of research evidence;

3. To create a sustainable network of schools who are

‘evidence-ready’ and able to take on new evidence rapidly

and effectively in the future.

Characteristics of effective

research/practice partnerships • Partners see themselves as guardians of the evidence (faithful adoption and

intelligent adaption).

• Bring expertise on school improvement and change in schools (i.e EEF brings

the ‘what’, partners bring the ‘how’)

• The work is integrated into existing school improvement processes and

priorities

• Led by people with passion, respect and influence

• Use local school exemplars that illustrate the change process as well as the end

point

• Involves audit/self-assessment

• Differentiates and targets support to schools

• Use evidence-based programmes/interventions

• Has QA/monitoring processes built in.

The EEF/LLP partnership will seek to follow these key aims: • Secure the use of Teaching Assistant evidence and research in

every Lincolnshire school in order to improve outcomes for children

• Allow us, together, to learn about key features of effective and sustainable ‘scale-up’ of research evidence

• Support Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire schools to be ‘evidence ready’ and able to take on new evidence effectively, not just in relation to the TA work

Outcomes, Outcomes, Outcomes

So what?

The EEF/LLP partnership will seek to follow these key aims: • Secure the use of Teaching Assistant evidence and research in

every Lincolnshire school in order to improve outcomes for children

• Allow us, together, to learn about key features of effective and sustainable ‘scale-up’ of research evidence

• Support Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire schools to be ‘evidence ready’ and able to take on new evidence effectively, not just in relation to the TA work

Together, we can make the difference

Example: Teaching Assistants

Teaching Assistants:

promising results

• Clear and actionable guidance

• Digs deeper into EEF evidence

e.g. Teaching and Learning

Toolkit, and relates it to the

wider evidence-base

• A foundation for scale up

actions

‘Making best use of TAs’

guidance report

7 recommendations on

‘Making best use of TAs’

Has to be a leadership issue!

Supporting resources and tools

Available to use and adapt:

• Hard copies of the report

• Poster summarising the

recommendations

• Powerpoint slides

• ‘Acting on the evidence’

review/plan/do process

• Online audit tools (Leaders and

Teachers/TA survey) – starting

point

• Red, Amber, Green (RAG)

checklist – direction of travel

• Classroom observation

proforma

• Interventions health check

Social nature of research use

Uptake of research is based on trust and personality as much as practical usefulness - informal networks, direct contacts and brokerage are important

EEF researchers

2 x Regional Leads

30 x Cluster Leads

School Research Leads