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Maxwell, Bronwen; Stevens, Anna; Demack, Sean; Coldwell, Mike; Wolstenholme, Claire; Reaney-Wood, Sarah; Stiell, Bernadette; Lortie-Forgues, Hugues – Education Endowment Foundation, 2021
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)'s mission is to break the link between family income and educational achievement. This is achieved through summarising the best available evidence in plain language, generating new evidence of 'what works' to improve teaching and learning, and supporting teachers and school leaders to use research evidence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Judy Sebba; Andrew Brown; Tracey Denton-Calabrese; Neil Harrison; Nikki Luke; Mariela Neagu; Alun Rees – UK Department for Education, 2022
From September 2021, the role of the Virtual School Head (VSH) was extended to include all children who have or have had a social worker including children in need (CIN), and those subject to child protection plans (CPP). Funding was allocated to VSHs in every local authority (LA) until 31 March 2022. The objectives were to ensure that there would…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Occupational Information, County School Districts, School Administration
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Newland, Barbara; Handley, Fiona – Research in Learning Technology, 2016
Institutional engagement with digital literacies at the University of Brighton has been promoted through the creation of a Digital Literacies Framework (DLF) aimed at academic staff. The DLF consists of 38 literacies divided into four categories that align to the following key areas of academic work: (1) Learning and teaching; (2) Research; (3)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technological Literacy, College Faculty, Faculty Development
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Callanan, Meg; Farias, Javiera Cartagena; Hudson, Ruth; Greaves, Ellen – Education Endowment Foundation, 2017
The Achieve Together Bournemouth Partnership ("the Partnership") was a pilot collaboration between Teach First, Teaching Leaders, and The Future Leaders Trust. It was a new initiative that aimed to work with primary and secondary schools and the wider community in two socially deprived areas of Bournemouth (Boscombe and West Howe) to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Program Evaluation, Pilot Projects
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O'Hare, Liam; Stark, Patrick; McGuinness, Carol; Biggart, Andy; Thurston, Allen – Education Endowment Foundation, 2017
This report describes the development and pilot evaluation of SMART Spaces. This programme aims to boost GCSE science outcomes by applying the principle that information is more easily learnt when it is repeated multiple times, with time passing between the repetitions. This approach is known as "spaced learning" and is contrasted with a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Repetition, Time Factors (Learning)
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Davies, Peter; Perry, Tom; Kirkman, John – Education Endowment Foundation, 2017
IRIS is designed to improve primary school teachers' use of dialogue and feedback through using video technology for collaborative teacher development with a view to improving academic outcomes for pupils. It is based around a video technology system (IRIS Connect) which enables teachers to record, edit, and comment on teaching and learning. In…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Interpersonal Communication, Feedback (Response), Video Technology
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Miller, Sarah; Gildea, Aideen Gildea; Sloan, Seaneen; Thurston, Allen – Education Endowment Foundation, 2015
This is a report of a pilot study of the Physically Active Lessons (PAL) programme, which was piloted in five primary schools in Hertfordshire between February and July 2014. PAL involves adapting lesson plans to combine short bursts of physical activity with academic content. The study had two aims: (1) to explore the feasibility of adapting a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Physical Education, Physical Activities
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Morris, Bob – Educational Management and Administration, 1991
From a National Steering Group perspective, this article reviews the recent history of the national framework for teacher appraisal in England and discusses six lessons to be drawn from a project that tested the new system. Appraisal is still associated with controversy and poor industrial relations, arouses suspicion, is politically complicated,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Problems, Foreign Countries, Government Role