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Performance and accountability measures
Use the below resources to identify areas of improvement through quality assurance processes, policy management and self-evaluation.
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Headteacher Josephine Smith considers how to plan for different groups of pupils, plan the next steps in your catch up strategy and ensure you get best value from government funding
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Richard Sutton provides downloadable checklists and best practice tips for effective remote learning.
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How do you ensure all staff buy into a new curriculum and share accountability for it? Tom Fay offers questions for different team members to ask at each stage of a curriculum review
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Download our school improvement plan templates to outline priorities and review and measure progress
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Quality assurance practices help determine school improvement by identifying development priorities. Josephine Smith advises how to critique your QA processes
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Are you planning an initiative or intervention in your school? First follow this guide to evaluating and improving impact from Owen Carter of ImpactEd
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The new Ofsted framework focuses on the quality of the curriculum and its impact. Josephine Smith offers questions to ask when planning your curriculum and ideas for training subject leaders
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Ensure your policies incorporate all the academies in your trust and are being correctly used at local level with this guidance
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A common approach to QA across a MAT enables consistency and allows for individual school flexibility. Josephine Smith offers guidance and a template schedule for a MAT to use
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Your Optimus membership gives you access to a variety of resources to support pupils and staff. Download our plan to get started