The MAT Assurance Framework was designed to help Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) understand their capacity to support and drive school improvement – so that they can build and strengthen their current capacity and potentially to grow their capacity to support more schools.
Our evaluation examines the 14 elements, under six main headings. These are based on research about what works in MATs and similar networks of schools internationally. The framework – which was initially developed by and tested with a group of MATs in the SW region – does not assume that there is one best way to support and drive school improvement as a MAT; instead, it isolates the questions, issues and practices that should enable all kinds of MAT to become more effective in supporting their schools to improve.
The framework looks at:
- Vision, culture and ethos
- People and partners
- Teaching and learning
- Curriculum and assessment
- Quality and assurance and accountability
- Governance capability
Access to our MAT Assurance Framework evaluations is included with any Unlimited or Pro license. If you’d like to try it out for yourself, head to Book a Demo.
Testimonials
EMS’s Leadership Evaluation enables all schools to review their culture, climate, and leadership in the context of the key factors that lay behind these schools’ success. Taking an evidence-informed approach, it will elicit powerful next steps for any school on its leadership journey.
Andy Buck, Author, speaker, CEO of Leadership Matters, and creator of the BASIC coaching model.
Bedford Borough Council has rolled out the EvaluateMySchool SEND evaluation to all of our 70 schools. After trialling EMS through our partnership with Whole Education we were keen to use it to holistically evaluate our SEND provision. EMS is simple to use, and the evaluation enables us to create conversations with staff about SEND provision in our schools and across our local authority.
Jon Foster, Teaching & Learning SEND Advisor, Bedford Borough Council
EvaluateMySchool has been pivotal at identifying patterns and trends in SEND practice, and recognising where our strengths and areas for development are, which has then fed directly into my SEND strategy. The platform allows easy reporting, recording of conversations, assigning of actions and also the ability to upload evidence. The visual graphics allow quick snapshots into progress made at academy and MAT level, as well as identified groups of schools by phase.
Simon Tanner, National Director of SEND, E-ACT
What I like most about EMS, apart from the ability to personalise the measures, is that it allows me to influence change by providing the resources to analyse evaluation results (comparing them to other schools if I was part of a group), track and annotate progress, and to actively plan improvements – all within the evaluation! This is so much more than an evaluation!
Emma Dibden, Education Specialist – GL Assessment
Gary Aubin, SEND Consultant – Whole EducationEvaluate My School provides a common language for schools to think about SEND. It has helped many SENDCOs I know, to keep themselves strategic in what can be a very operational role. It helps leaders, who might not feel confident in relation to SEND leadership, to understand the part they can play in developing provision for pupils with SEND.
I highly recommend EvaluateMySchool. We used the tools to help evaluate and prepare next steps for strategic development ahead of our Ofsted inspection. Evidence of leadership and improvement all in one online space!.
Maria Constantinou, Headteacher
EMS’s Leadership Evaluation enables all schools to review their culture, climate, and leadership in the context of the key factors that lay behind these schools’ success. Taking an evidence-informed approach, it will elicit powerful next steps for any school on its leadership journey.
Andy Buck, Author, speaker, CEO of Leadership Matters, and creator of the BASIC coaching model.
“Bedford Borough Council has rolled out the EvaluateMySchool SEND evaluation to all of our 70 schools. After trialling EMS through our partnership with Whole Education we were keen to use it to holistically evaluate our SEND provision. EMS is simple to use, and the evaluation enables us to create conversations with staff about SEND provision in our schools and across our local authority”.
Jon Foster, Teaching & Learning SEND Advisor, Bedford Borough Council
EvaluateMySchool has been pivotal at identifying patterns and trends in SEND practice, and recognising where our strengths and areas for development are, which has then fed directly into my SEND strategy. The platform allows easy reporting, recording of conversations, assigning of actions and also the ability to upload evidence. The visual graphics allow quick snapshots into progress made at academy and MAT level, as well as identified groups of schools by phase.
Simon Tanner, National Director of SEND, E-ACT
“I highly recommend EvaluateMySchool. We used the tools to help evaluate and prepare next steps for strategic development ahead of our Ofsted inspection. Evidence of leadership and improvement all in one online space!”.
Maria Constantinou, Headteacher
What I like most about EMS, apart from the ability to personalise the measures, is that it allows me to influence change by providing the resources to analyse evaluation results (comparing them to other schools if I was part of a group), track and annotate progress, and to actively plan improvements – all within the evaluation! This is so much more than an evaluation!
Emma Dibden, Education Specialist – GL Assessment
