A Casestudy: How United Learning Set & Achieve Effective Key Performance Indicators Across The Trust With Classroom Monitor
Kieran Dwyer
The Key Support Service | Education, Edtech & Governance | Commercial Strategist | PGDip FCMI CMgr
One of the challenges facing Multi Academy Trusts is finding an effective way for schools to communicate their performance data to the central team for benchmarking purposes.
Each school will likely have its own curriculum model that they use for lesson planning and ongoing assessment, based on the needs of its pupils. So the attainment and progress data kept by each school can vary a great deal.
Classroom Monitor’s new white paper looks at ways to solve this challenge, so that MAT leaders can get the data they need to set and achieve effective Key Performance Indicators. It features a case study from United Learning - a large group of 57 schools, with a mix of free schools, academies and independents.
United Learning has developed a curriculum based on a ‘mastery approach’. The learning outcomes are assessed using defined KPIs. These KPIs give their education team a central bank of performance and benchmarking data that can be used to help raise standards.
Classroom Monitor is used in schools across the group and by the central leadership team as a way to manage this data easily and effectively.
James Garnett, Deputy Director of Technology at United Learning, says:
“We recommend Classroom Monitor to our schools as a tool that allows teachers to make formative assessment judgements against both United Learning and custom school KPIs.
“Classroom Monitor enables teachers and leaders to identify gaps and develop intervention groups to ensure children are not left behind. As Group KPIs are updated/ added, they are easily amended in the system, along with exemplification material to support them.
“It also allows for the easy collection of evidence for internal, cluster and group moderation. It’s seen as being very usable in the classroom, with much positive feedback from teachers.”
Of course, different MATs and school groups may find that different models work better for them. See our white paper to explore the options!
Read our new white paper here:
Autonomy vs. Harmony: How to Set & Achieve Effective Key Performance Indicators