How Trusts Are Rethinking Self-Evaluation, Together

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

In this session, you’ll hear how two trusts approach school self-evaluation. Anna Upton, Deputy CEO at Embark Federation, and Jane Nolan, CEO at Thrive Co-operative Learning Trust, each walk through their approach to SEFs and how they manage the process.

We also shared what Edurio has heard about self-evaluations from more than 50 trust leaders over the past year.

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

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.