How Trusts Are Rethinking Self-Evaluation, Together

Since Ofsted moved to report cards last year, many trusts have been taking a fresh look at how their schools evaluate themselves. Join trust leaders taking different approaches to hear how they’re redesigning self-evaluation across their schools.

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Tuesday 29th September, 1 pm – 2 pm UK time | Online

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Why now

Since the renewed Ofsted framework and its report cards came in last November, a large share of trusts have been looking again at how their schools evaluate themselves. For many, self-evaluation built around the old single-grade system needs adjusting to fit.

This isn’t the first time the framework has changed, and it won’t be the last. What matters is whether a trust’s approach to self-evaluation can change with it, not just this year, but as a matter of course.

What we heard from 50+ trust leaders

Over the past year, Edurio has spoken to more than 50 trust leaders about how self-evaluation works across their trusts. A few things came up:

Almost every trust is changing something about their approach
The approaches themselves vary widely: some rebuilt around the renewed Ofsted framework, some around an independent trust rubric, others moving from an annual document to a rolling, centrally moderated process

This webinar brings some of those approaches, and the people running them, together in one conversation. There’s time for questions throughout.

What you’ll get out of it

This is a session about the decisions behind self-evaluation, not the school SEF document itself. By the end of the hour, you’ll have:

A clear picture of how trusts taking different approaches decide what their schools evaluate against, and how much they set centrally versus leave to headteachers
A look at how they get evidence in, keep it current, moderate it and read across their own schools, and feed it into school improvement
A working list of the questions worth settling before you redesign your own approach: who the SEF is for, how far to standardise it, how often it should change, what evidence belongs in it, and how to read across your trust

Speakers

Anna Upton

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Embark Federation

Anna leads quality of education across Embark’s primary and secondary schools, including school improvement, inclusion, safeguarding and quality assurance. She designed and implemented the trust’s risk and self-evaluation framework, giving Embark a consistent, evidence-informed way to identify strengths and priorities across its schools.

Christopher Leng

Director of Secondary Education, Thrive Co-operative Learning Trust

Chris has worked within the Thrive community for more than a decade and previously served as Headteacher of Kelvin Hall School. He is passionate about supporting schools to deliver strong academic outcomes while ensuring young people are well prepared for the next stage of their lives and able to contribute positively to their communities.

Ernest Jenavs

CEO and Co-founder, Edurio

Ernest brings the sector picture from Edurio’s conversations with 50+ trust leaders, and the questions worth settling before a trust redesigns its approach.

Who this is for

This session is for trust CEOs, directors of education, school improvement leads and heads of standards who set how self-evaluation works across a group of schools.

Can’t make it live?

Edurio Evaluate

The conversations behind this webinar were part of designing Edurio Evaluate, launching this autumn. There’ll be a brief look at it towards the end of the session for anyone who’s interested.