Research School Network: KARS: From Mitigation to Success: Improving Outcomes for Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Learners Multi Training Day

This programme is offered through the EEFective Kent Project (EKP), a collaboration between Kent County Council and the EEF. Through the project, the cost of this programme has been subsidised as part of their dedication to support the implementation of evidence-based approaches and interventions in Kent.


Overview

This programme was designed as a ​‘Chapter 2’ to the Tackling Educational Disadvantage
programme previously delivered in Kent by Durrington Research School. However, engaging in that programme is not a requirement for taking part in From Mitigation to Success. The programme supports schools to ​‘drill down’ further into the specific issues they are facing with regards to tackling disadvantage and guides them to adapt their approaches accordingly.


The programme includes tailored support for schools around their own use of Pupil Premium and is led by Marc Rowland, an adviser for improving outcomes for disadvantaged learners for the Unity Schools Partnership, a large crossphase Multi Academy Trust based in the East of England. It will support you to implement evidence-informed processes, practice and programmes as part of your Pupil Premium strategy and aligns with the DfE’s requirement for strategy documents to reference research evidence.


Participants will:

• Examine what the evidence says about supporting disadvantaged and vulnerable learners
• Discuss and explore how to use Pupil Premium to have the best impact
• Look at specific, research-based strategies to take to implement in own school settings
• The programme will be delivered across three face-to-face days at Kent Associate Research School.

Day 1 – 8^th March
Lessons learnt, culture, curriculum & assessment.

• What have we learnt about the impact of educational disadvantage in Kent?
• Emerging plans to address this – successes and challenges
• The active ingredients of an effective strategy
• The importance of culture & curriculum
• Assessment – diagnosis over assumption

Day 2 – 16^th May 

Teaching, teacher development, intervention & wider approaches.

• Evidence informed teaching with a focus on – metacognition and self regulation, vocabulary, oral language, attention and memory
• Embedding evidence informed teaching through high quality teacher development
• Effective intervention strategies
• Wider approaches and the evidence for them

Day 3 – 30^th June
Effective implementation and evaluation.

• Refining our implementation plans
• Effective evaluation

Pupil Premium Progress Review participating schools will have the opportunity to engage in one-to-one bespoke support, including Pupil Premium Progress reviews. These half-day visits will focus on the progress made with your Pupil Premium strategy to date, and help you to plan your next steps

Wraparound support - Bespoke support such as one-to-one leadership coaching will be available to support the implementation work in schools throughout the programme

Who is the programme for?

Leaders in primary or secondary schools who are responsible for the pupil premium strategy.

Delegates need to fully commit to the programme. It is vital that delegates are given the necessary time, space and technology to attend all sessions, complete gap tasks between sessions, and engage in programme evaluation.