School improvement is about making a difference. If you add value, you can probably find a way to measure it. The easiest measurements are Progress 8 and Ofsted, but there are lots of other ways.

Every school leader works incredibly hard to improve the life chances of the young people in their school. Leaders value the adults who work in their schools and usually build excellent relationships.

So, if progress is poor, what is the issue? I won’t tell you, even if I think I know. And, because I always think I know, it is very easy for me to ignore that voice.

Instead, I listen to your problems, and your leaders. Then I take ideas from a range of educational research, and work with you to see how they might fit your context. You might hear 10 ideas and choose 1, or 15 ideas and choose 8 - I have no problem with most ideas being rejected. 

Then we’ll work out how to implement it, plan for all the ways it could go wrong, and measure it, so that it goes right. My line in the sand is, can I measure the impact.

If I can’t help you improve your school, solving your problems in measurable ways, get rid of me. So far, schools only do this once their Ofsted grade goes up.

This is why I rarely do one off events. If you are interested in using research to improve any aspect of your school, I can help.

20% of what heads of department do makes 80% of the difference to their students’ progress.

I help teams identify what those are and become brilliant at it, without increasing workload.

Then we find how to get the 80% done as quickly and efficiently as possible so there is more time for improving your curriculum, your team and your progress. (80% of the time, the answer is the curriculum).

There are dozens of research schools, around 30 at the last count. Taken together, they make virtually no extra progress year on year. Their Progress 8 is static. 

You won’t find this out from The Research Schools Network. Top be fair to them, improving student progress is not one of their aims. 

My training focuses on what research makes a difference to progress, and how to adapt this to your context. I work with schools of all types, from special to mainstream.

I work with English teams as I do with every department in the school. The focus is always on Progress 8 and curriculum development.

Some schools ask me to develop video courses, interventions, or curriculum booklets bespoke to their students and context.

There are half a dozen new tools every week.

But how do you decide what AI can do to help your students learn more quickly, and save your teachers time. Lots of time.

I show you how your curriculum can have twice the impact in half the time. I can transform the impact of all your teams with just 5 approaches:

• How can I resource my curriculum?

• How can I think differently about this problem and find a better solution?

• How can I make students remember what I’ve taught them?

• How can I give students exactly the right feedback, at exactly the right time?

• How can I do all this and save myself time?