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Revolutionising MAT Dashboards: An Insight-Driven Approach to Unlocking School Improvement
As a MAT leader, you're no stranger to data. But are your dashboards truly helping you drive improvement? Or are they simply adding to...
New DfE Trust Quality Description Templates: Streamlining Your MAT Self-Evaluation and Action Plans
Earlier this spring, the Department for Education (DfE) released the draft Trust Quality Descriptions. They describe them as "one of...
DfE Trust Quality Descriptions: Streamline Your MAT Self-Evaluation and Action Planning.
Last month, the Department for Education released the draft Trust Quality Descriptions, outlining the five pillars of quality for Multi...
Free webinars for leaders of multi-academy trusts.
CEOs of multi-academy trusts (MATs) have the important responsibility of making sure their trust runs smoothly and provide the best...
What Ofsted inspectors may consider during a summary evaluation of a multi-academy trust (MAT)
MAT summary evaluations are not inspections and are conducted with the cooperation and consent of the MAT being assessed. In their...
Four ways MATs use the Assurance Framework to work with other trusts
Trusts have started to use the framework to support conversations with other trusts in a number of different ways including: Use by two...
Building outcomes into trust improvement planning
By self-reviewing against the framework, you can inform your wider improvement planning and reporting to the board. Some trusts have used...
Identifying strengths and priorities for improvement using the MAT Assurance Framework
Using the framework, trusts can identify their most important areas of strength and their priorities for growth, so they can develop...
How to use the MAT Assurance Framework to facilitate discussions within your trust
This framework can be used for discussions with your senior team, senior and middle leaders, and/or trustees. It can be a separate...
Using the framework to support peer review by primary trusts in Kent
As a trust, we used the questions from the DfE MAT Development programme guidance (the questions on school improvement are based on the...
Using the framework as part of The Mersey City Region learning set
We are a group of five MATs who have used the framework to guide our work as an action learning set. Each of the MATs completed it...
Using the MAT Assurance Framework with nine primary academies in the South West
Our trust have been using the Framework for over two years. We used it initially as a MAT temperature/reality check. I sent out the...
Trust-to-Trust mentoring conversations around supporting growth using the MAT Assurance Framework
Through the Trust-to-Trust Development Programme, the DfE is using the framework to support the strategic development of trusts with the...
Using the MAT Assurance Framework in a peer review process
Several trusts are exploring the possibility of using the framework as part of a formal peer review process. An existing trust has...
Using the MAT Assurance Framework in an Action Learning Set
In the last three years, the framework has been used in formal action learning sets (each set with a small number of trusts, typically...
Two or three trusts working informally together using the MAT Assurance Framework.
The MAT assurance framework is a development tool intended to assist Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in better understanding their capacity...
We've found the best way to discuss MATvista is using Zoom, Teams or GoogleMeet. We can talk about your requirements and we’ll share our screen to show you how it's tailored to your trust.
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