- Each partnership pairs an EEF-supported Research School with a local authority or multi-academy trust to help local schools improve teaching and learning through a package of support.
- The new partnerships include efforts to reach ‘hidden disadvantage’ in small schools located in coastal and rural areas, and to boost early maths so children are set up for later success.
- The partnerships take place in areas across England, including East Riding of Yorkshire, Essex, Lincolnshire, London, Norfolk, Northumberland, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, and the Wirral.
Up to 223 schools will benefit from eight new local partnerships to boost teaching and learning in their region, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) announced today.
Each ‘Evidence into Action’ partnership will address a specific challenge facing disadvantaged pupils in the local area by using evidence-based teaching practices that researchers have found to boost children’s learning in rigorous studies, trials, or evaluations.
The two-year partnerships are led by an EEF-supported Research School and local education leaders. Research Schools are a national network of 32 schools that support the use of evidence to improve teaching practice.
The partnerships announced today are, in alphabetical order:
- East Coast Collective: Improving attainment for disadvantaged pupils in coastal regions.
- East Riding of Yorkshire Partnership: Using metacognitive strategies to improve writing for disadvantaged pupils in small schools.
- Enfield Partnership: Raising reading attainment for key stage 2 and 3 pupils in Enfield.
- Hillingdon Partnership: Improving children’s communication and language skills by promoting high-quality interactions in the early years.
- Northumberland Partnership: Raising maths outcomes for first school/primary school pupils in Northumberland.
- Somerset Partnership: Improving key stage 2 maths outcomes in Somerset.
- St. Bart’s Partnership: Improving key stage 2 maths outcomes across the St. Bart’s Multi-Academy Trust in Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Stoke-on-Trent.
- Wirral Partnership: Improving maths outcomes for key stage 2 and 3 pupils in the Wirral.