What’s special about this course?
This hands-on course is rich in opportunities to learn what works in other secondary settings, practise with real-world tasks and get supportive feedback, as you hone your skills in monitoring and evaluating performance to drive school improvement.
Course schedule
Class 1
Tuesday 11 March 2025
4pm to 5.30pm
Live, on Zoom
Monitoring and evidence: a super practical how-to
With Ben Levinson OBE
Double down on:
- Creating a culture of curiosity to drive improvement across your school
- Rapidly getting the picture you need, in a low-stress, supportive way
- How to tell the story of your school to your critical stakeholders
Class 1 will be cross-phase, so you’ll be joined by peers from primary settings.
Class 2
Tuesday 25 March 2025
4pm to 5.30pm
Live, on Zoom
How to use your data
With Dan Chapman
Practise:
- Asking the right questions of your data, and identifying the headlines
- Triangulating data and other evidence, so you can really make an impact
- Taking the right action – what to do and what not to do with your data
Class 2 will just be for leaders in secondary settings, with a forensic focus on using data in a secondary context.
Your expert course trainers
Ben is director of school and trust improvement and executive headteacher at The Tapscott Learning Trust.
In his leadership roles, he has developed robust processes for evaluating school performance and ensures that school development planning is sharply focused on the areas that will have the most impact on teaching practice and pupil outcomes.
As headteacher, Ben led Kensington Primary School in Newham to win 3 prestigious awards in 2020, including Primary School of the Year.
He is a national leader of education and has sat on several advisory groups and boards aimed at improving the wellbeing of children and education staff.
You can find him on X (formerly Twitter) at @mrlev.
Dan is vice-principal at Camborne Science and International Academy (Cornwall's largest secondary school), leading on quality of education, teaching and learning and research. With over 13 years’ experience of teaching physics, Dan combines his passion for education with extensive experience in using data to enhance pupil outcomes.
In his leadership role, Dan uses comprehensive data analysis to monitor teaching strategies and assess pupil performance, ensuring that every decision is evidence-informed with a view to maximising pupil progress. Committed to using data for positive impact, he fosters an environment where teachers can continuously improve and pupils can thrive.
Who can attend
This course is for you if you’re a school leader at any level, with responsibility now or in the near future for any of the following areas:
- Monitoring the quality of education
- Gathering evidence of the effectiveness of school improvement
- Collecting or analysing performance data
- Leading school improvement
Relevant to secondary settings. If you work in the primary phase, our equivalent course for primary settings is for you.
This course is exclusively available to The Key's Whole School members. If you're not yet a Whole School member,
find out more here.
More reasons to love this course
Learning virtually doesn't mean learning solo. This course is designed to be rich in energising interaction between you and your colleagues – it's your safe space to ask questions and seek peer feedback, and make connections for life.
Your live classes won't just be lectures. Ben and Dan will engage the class, invite discussion, prompt breakout activities and leave plenty of room for Q&A. You'll learn by doing, with practical tasks between classes and regular feedback from the trainers and your class colleagues.
Apply what you learn straight away, with practical strategies drawn from expert advice and excellent practice. Adopt the best of what works, for immediate change and lasting impact in your role and school.
Complete your classes and get a certificate of achievement from The Key for your learning record.