ImpactEd Group

We are delighted to announce that Dr Lauren Bellaera has joined the leadership team of ImpactEd Group, in the new role of Director of Research & Insights.

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🔹The people behind the mission: Enhancing employee engagement at charities and social enterprises
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🔹Shape the future of healthcare careers: New surveys seek your insights
🔹ICYMI: Our latest research campaigns
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🔹Beyond the agenda: Is trust and school governance ready for what’s coming?
🔹Understanding attendance: Latest insights from a growing cohort

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School Improvement Hub CST and ImpactEd Group are now working together to collate examples of school-improvement practices currently used by trusts. We want to fit this within the conceptual framework, drawing on practical ...

Whether you've developed a unique cross-curricular approach, found creative ways to engage students, or designed innovative assessment methods, we'd love to hear from you.

Deadline: 31st July Share your submission here: schoolimprovementhub.org

School Improvement Hub CST and ImpactEd Group are now working together to collate examples of school-improvement practices currently used by trusts. We want to fit this within the conceptual framework, drawing on practical ...

School Improvement Hub: Call for Evidence (Deadline: 31st July)

This year we're partnering with @cstvoice.bsky.social to gather examples of innovative curriculum practice. We want to hear from school leaders and teachers about your approach to curriculum design and development.

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 The survey closes on 15th July. Winners will be chosen at random and notified by email.

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Attention teachers! Final call!

We’re conducting a short survey on workload, well-being, and curriculum with Oak National Academy, and we need your input!

🕒 It takes a maximum of 10 minutes 

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📢 We are recruiting

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Understanding Attendance Diagnostic Study | ImpactEd Understanding Attendance Registration Page

We’re looking to broaden our reach and involve a wider range of schools to strengthen this work even further.

Targeted research approach to improve pupil attendance
Get in touch: lp.impacted.org.uk/attendance-d...

#EducationResearch #SchoolAttendance #EducationData

- Our partnerships include 30 schools across 10 local authorities with the greatest absence rates
- Most of the schools are in England however we are working in Wales too

📖 And read our latest blog post for deeper insights into the project’s reach www.impactedgroup.uk/news-and-blo...

📍 Understanding Attendance: Mapping the reach of our growing network

Our Understanding Attendance research project has expanded significantly over the past year now reaching 250,000 pupils across England.

So, who are the school's exploring attendance both in their school and nationally?

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Help us understand the current landscape of guidance for health sector careers by completing this anonymous, 5-minute survey by the Health Sciences University.

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Are you a Career Adviser shaping the next generation?

Do you feel you have enough information about how to guide your students into health sector careers?

Are you able to communicate a broader understanding of the health sector and the diverse careers within it?

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We believe that it is by understanding these wider factors that school leaders can most effectively target support

Join the schools Understanding Attendance
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Understanding Attendance: From insight to action

Addressing attendance is complex. There are so many factors influencing whether or not a child attends every day.

How they slept, how safe they feel, and their relationships with friends and teachers all make a difference.

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We need a clearer picture of governance in practice—where it’s working, where it’s under strain, and how boards and executive leaders can collaborate more effectively.

We’re now recruiting our founding research cohort — with funded and subsidised places available.

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Research: Are your governors ready for what comes next? Here's how you can join our research project to find out is governance is resilient, risk-aware and ready

Is governance ready for what’s coming?

Our new new research project aims to find out whether governance is risk-aware, resilient and ready for the challenges schools could face.

From our work across the sector, we’re beginning to see patterns in the trusts best able to govern through uncertainty

We’re at the @cstvoice.bsky.social Governance and Trustees Conference today introducing Beyond the Agenda - a research project exploring the culture, behaviours, and decision-making dynamics that shape governance in trusts

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#CSTGovernance #Governance #Education

Together, they'll discuss the report's key findings and explore the future direction of this research as well as how schools can put the research into action.

Save your spot at the webinar: www.impactedgroup.uk/events/mind-...

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🗓️Mind the Engagement Gap: Insight Webinar

Join us for our first webinar sharing these findings, featuring Professor John Jerrim from UCL and ImpactEd Group, author of "Mind the Engagement Gap," alongside, TEP Director Steph Hamilton and ImpactEd Group Director Dr Chris Wilson.

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Save your spot and listen in on the record: mailchi.mp/impactedgrou...

Whether you're just starting or looking to improve existing processes, this series offers valuable guidance for EdTech founders and leaders.

#evaluation #measurement #edtech

Talking Impact for EdTech Founders
Episode 3: EdTech Week Edition

Hosted by Kristy Evers, hear from Sumdog's Kirsty Smith and our very own Charlotte Dougan & Beth Williams for practical tips and tricks for conducting evaluations.

📅 12 noon 18th June 2025

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In primary school, girls report feeling safer than boys. There is then a clear drop for both groups amongst the secondary sample.

However, the gender gap increases in later years of secondary school, with girls increasingly feeling less safe at school than boys between Year 7

#RCELI #Education

Over the coming weeks we are going to continue sharing the findings from Mind the Engagement Gap

For the full report now, download:
www.impactedgroup.uk/resources/report-mind-the-engagement-gap

👉Gender differences in response to the statement “I feel safe at school” by school year group.

School engagement plummets in Year 7, research finds Separate studies warn that students’ enjoyment of lessons drops, and stress levels rise, after moving to secondary school

We also gathered together for our May Residential.

This term we had hackathons, personal development and planning sessions at top of the agenda. As well as our normal Employee Voice Board and Group and TEP Boards.

Thank you again to Vince Green and David Salisbury for sharing their time to speak.

We've had a busy week.

On Tuesday we shared our Mind the Engagement Gap paper with the world.

The insights are sobering, urgent but actionable. Full report available here: www.impactedgroup.uk/resources/re...

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6️⃣ Make engagement responsive and accessible

Jonathan Sobczyk Boddington's OpEd in Schools Week:
schoolsweek.co.uk/six-lessons-from-the-biggest-ever-study-on-pupil-engagement/

Download the full report:
www.impactedgroup.uk/resources/report-mind-the-engagement-gap

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The Knowledge: The importance of undertanding engagement Our study of over 100,000 students sheds light on when gaps arise, their consequences, and how to intervene

ImpactEd Group Founder Jonathan Sobczyk Boddington shares the arising trends from hashtag#RCELI in Schools Week

1️⃣ Year 7 is a flashpoint
2️⃣ Attendance is deeply connected
3️⃣ Target belonging strategies
4️⃣ Girls are more driven but more vulnerable
5️⃣ Staff engagement drives pupil engagement

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📢 Six lessons from the biggest ever study on pupil engagement

With data now gathered from over 100,000 pupils from hundreds of schools across England, the findings in our report are urgent but actionable. They show disparities by year group, gender and background.

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