Behaviour on a page
When you have lots of student data at your disposal it can be easy to overcomplicate things, forget the bigger picture and slip into habits of not revisiting it regularly. Rendering it useless.
This week’s highlight will help you improve behaviour by simplifying your reporting.
Plus: just three weeks to go to register for our Pastoral Champions Conference.
If you were on half term last week, welcome back.
We - schools - Are In Beta - always learning (when we keep it simple and regular)
This week
🎥 Improving behaviour and attitudes (Part I): one page reporting.
🎫 Pastoral Champions Conference: Line up - sneak peek.
💼 Jobs with We Are In Beta community members.
🎥 Improving behaviour and attitudes (Part I): one page reporting (not just for Ofsted).
When behaviour is poor and attitudes aren’t right, things start to go downhill.
Referrals, truancy, absence and suspension all start to increase. Staying on top of it all becomes really difficult.
One way to stay ahead of it is to have a simple and robust system to report on behaviour and attitudes data.
So how can you keep reporting simple, manageable and impactful?
Learn how Yate Academy improved behaviour and attitudes by simplifying reporting.
📅 Wed 28th February
🕕 6pm
🎫 Pastoral Champions Conference: Line up - sneak peek.
Pastoral Champions Week 2024 is only 3 weeks away.
So here’s sneak peek of what to expect:
🤝 Relationship building – Pastoral Managers and the continuity of the care they deliver - Richard Wood, Harris Bromley.
👩👩👦👦 Re-engaging hard to reach students and families - Joe Wigget and Kerry Cordty, Shared Learning Trust.
🚀 Case studies of complex cases of students and how they ended up thriving - Kate Quinn and Jess Giraud, The Oldham Academy North.
📢 NB: Sessions and resources will only be available to those who register before the event.
ICMI last week: if you want to celebrate and get feedback on your pastoral work, we’d love to help you share it.
Join the conference line up!
Here are the key dates you need:
By 26th February - nominate colleagues or volunteer yourself
By 1st March - tell us you'd like to speak in this short form
By 12th March – create and upload your session, supported by your SLT
w/c 18th March – conference goes live! Jump in to meet fellow speakers, discuss sessions and learn from a wealth of ideas and resources on offer.
Below we’ve gathered everything you need to…
💼 Jobs with We Are In Beta community members.
System Leadership
Director of Education - Solihull Alternative Provision MAT (Solihull).
Director of Education - QEGSMAT (Derbyshire).
Senior Leadership
Assistant Headteacher - The Thomas Aveling School (Kent).
Assistant Principal (Behaviour & Attendance) - Bexleyheath Academy (Bexley).
Headteacher - Widden Primary School (Gloucester).
Middle leadership
📚English KS4 Coordinator - The Thomas Aveling School (Kent).
🌐 Lead Practitioner of Humanities - Clacton Coastal Academy (Essex).
🏑Head of PE - Maltings Academy (Essex).
📊 Head of Maths - Maltings Academy (Essex).
🚀 Phase Leader - Columbus School & College (Essex).
🧬Second in Chance of Science - New Rickstones Academy (Essex).
📖 English Subject Lead (Year 6 Class Teacher) -Lea Forest Primary Academy, (Birmingham).
Teaching
💰 Business studies - Greensward Academy (Essex).
🛠 Design Technology - Harrow Way Community School (Hampshire).
🌎 Geography - Clacton Coastal Academy (Essex).
🏰🌎History or Geography - Maltings Academy (Essex).
⚖️ Law and Politics - John Taylor Multi-Academy Trust (Staffordshire).
📊 Maths - Tendring Technology College (Essex).
📊 Maths - John Taylor Multi-Academy Trust (Staffordshire).
🇫🇷 🇪🇸 MFL x2 - John Taylor Multi-Academy Trust (Staffordshire).
🧠 Psychology and Sociology - John Taylor Multi-Academy Trust (Staffordshire).
🕌 RE - John Taylor Multi-Academy Trust (Staffordshire).
🧬 Science x2 - John Taylor Multi-Academy Trust (Staffordshire).
🧬 Science - Greensward Academy (Essex).
On a personal note…
The problem with analysing student data too closely…
When I was a Head of Science I was encouraged to analyse department data with a fine tooth comb.
Boys, girls. SEND, EAL, G&T. PP, non. Ethnicity.
All very important to look at but not when you end up trying to make broad generalisations about a particular group that’s made of a very (statistically) small sample of students.
The cost: huge amounts of time spent spent trying to find out too much about too little. I struggled to keep up. My team got data fatigue.
So I zoomed out.
Seeing the bigger picture: performance by class, by teacher, by topic, over time reduced demands on data collection and analysis and helped making decisions about what the most impactful intervention is within the limited time and resource we had.
If that resonates and behaviour is your focus, join us to learn about one page reporting.
I’d also love to hear about how you ensure you revisit data and act on it - something we are working on as a team at We Are In Beta.
As always hit reply. Be great to hear from you. Happy to share what we are learning.
Thanks for reading.
@Niall Alcock and the We Are In Beta team
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