Thought Leadership Webinar:

Nurture, a Microsoft Education partner, are delighted to be hosting this expert session in collaboration with Microsoft Education UK.

Guest speakers Dylan Wiliam and David Irish alongside the Nurture team will dive into key strategies of formative assessment and feedback.

The disruption to schooling caused by the coronavirus pandemic presents school leaders with a number of significant, and unfamiliar challenges. In this online presentation, Dylan Wiliam will explain why many of the solutions being offered to schools, such as widespread standardized testing, will be of little use, and will show why increased use of classroom formative assessment by teachers is likely to have the greatest benefit for pupils, both in the short and long term. The presentation will also deal in depth with how primary and secondary school leaders can best support teachers in developing their classroom formative assessment practice, through the establishment of school-based teacher learning communities.

Here's a Snapshot of What You Will Learn About:

• Answers to questions commonly asked by school leaders on assessment.
• Starting the conversation on school wide feedback as a school leader.
• Introducing a school feedback policy.
• Why increased formative assessment by teachers is likely to have the greatest benefit for pupils.
• Feedback being more work for the recipient than the donor.
• Surfacing insights from feedback and reflections that can inform lessons.
• Creating a positive culture around feedback where teachers and students can clearly see their progress.

Professor Dylan Wiliam:

Dylan Wiliam is Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at University College London. In a varied career, he has taught in inner-city schools, directed a large-scale testing programme, served a number of roles in university administration, including Dean of a School of Education, and pursued a research programme focused on supporting teachers to develop their use of assessment in support of learning.

David Irish:

David Irish, Principal & Deputy CEO, Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust. He has overseen a period when 5A*-C inc English and Maths has doubled, attendance has risen to 95% and where exclusions have been reduced by 70%. Also during this time, the Academy moved from Special Measures to Outstanding . Shireland has had consecutive Outstanding inspections, being graded Outstanding in all 4 categories.

Nurture has been used in Shireland over the course of the 2021/22 school year with limited subjects. And in the school's English department this year, Shireland have had 'record breaking' GSCE results.