United Learning – Transforming School Improvement
Edurio has been supporting United Learning in stakeholder feedback collection since 2016. See the 4 videos in which they explain why and how they have focused on stakeholder feedback and how Edurio has helped them along the way.
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How have survey results been valuable to United Learning?
United Learning started surveying their staff in an effort to understand better how they were feeling and what their unique experience was like working both for their school and for the trust — how well-managed they were, how satisfied they were with professional development opportunities, if they understood what the organisation was trying to achieve, etc.
This insight from the people on the front lines — those teaching the pupils every day, seeing how policies and programmes actually work in practice — is critical for leadership to understand to make decisions and changes that lead to continuous improvement.
What is the impact of using Edurio across the whole trust?
With this new level of fine-grained detail and analysis of pupil feedback, both school and trust leadership at United Learning can now compare results and identify opportunities for collaboration between schools while also looking within a school to see what is going on with specific classes, subjects or small groups of pupils. They have a level of information and understanding that they’ve never had before, allowing them to react and solve problems much more quickly and effectively.
“What’s been really interesting is that sometimes, it’s given us an insight into an issue we thought we understood very well.”
When the United Learning team visits a school, they get one perspective on an issue. They have a second layer of feedback from the staff, but once they added a new perspective from the pupils, they realised they hadn’t seen the whole picture.
Take behaviour, for example — the last thing anyone expected was for staff to have a more positive view of behaviour than the students themselves. Still, in some cases, that is exactly what happened. The pupils sparked changes in behaviour and discipline policies because they knew what negatively affected their learning.