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School Improvement 2024

📍 Teachers in the North East: we’re rolling out to more local authorities in the next academic year. Get involved!
📍 Policymakers: Want to explore this model in your region? Let’s talk.

🧾 Download the research summary and full report: interventions.whatworked.education/school-impro...

This pilot shows:
📌 Teachers can generate high-quality, actionable evidence.
📌 School improvement strategies don’t have to be top-down.
📌 Local innovation + shared evidence = powerful learning system

What makes this different?

✅ Step-by-step support
✅ Automated randomisation
✅ In-built analysis
✅ Instant impact reports for every teacher
✅ Meta-analytic aggregation for system-level insight

It’s rigorous, fast, and rooted in professional agency

Using the WhatWorked Teachers platform, teachers ran 21 trials over 5-6 weeks:

📊 21 micro-RCTs
👩‍🏫 6 teaching approaches
✏️ 686 pupils
📈 93% completion rate

❗New Report: Building a School-Led Evidence Base in the North East. We’ve been piloting micro-RCTs in the North East with Education Durham & the North East Combined Authority and the early results are very promising! 🧵

How do we bridge the gap between classroom practice and policy? Our latest blog explores how teacher-led #microRCTs in the North East are shaping a new model of #ActionResearch for education. This is evidence with teachers, not just about them interventions.whatworked.education/blog/mrcts-m...

📢 Y2-Y5 teachers! Join our @theeef.bsky.social trial piloting teacher-led micro-RCTs. Our automated platform handles the randomisation, analysis, and generates a personalised impact report just for you. Short, simple research for everyday teaching
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Exploring the Feasibility of Teacher-Led Micro-RCTs for Educational… This feasibility study explores whether an online platform enabling teacher-led micro-RCTs can serve as an effective evaluation tool for EEF’s Teacher…

Year 2-5 primary school teacher? Find out what works to boost spelling outcomes by running a mini-trial in your own classroom and get the results back within half a term! Join our EEF-funded study: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/projects-and...

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Teachers are researchers, constantly refining teaching methods. But finding time for research is tough. Join our
@theeef.bsky.social study to see how our automated platform simplifies evaluation – minimal time, no stats degree needed: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/projects-and...

Big news! The @theeef.bsky.social has commissioned a trial of WhatWorked Teachers. #Primaryteachers can run trials using our automated platform to test #spelling practices & get instant impact reports. shorturl.at/tn2DO
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#KS2 teachers - fancy trying an AI tool to help with lesson planning? Share feedback and receive a £50 Amazon voucher! Email: emma.dobson@whatworked.education or book a quick chat: calendly.com/emma-dobson-...

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Developing a North East Evidence Base for What Works in Education

Simplifying teacher-led research with @durhamcouncil.bsky.social and the North East Combined Authority piloting a global first - using teacher-led micro-trials to build cumulative meta-analysis of effective teaching practice interventions.whatworked.education/blog/northea...
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School funding per pupil in England is set to grow by 2.8% in 2025–26, but costs will rise by 3.6%, leaving schools under pressure. At What Worked Education, we test teaching strategies & EdTech with micro-RCTs, helping schools invest in what works #SchoolFunding #EducationImpact #EducationResearch

How Santa Could Use Micro-RCTs to Deliver the Perfect Christmas

How does Santa increase efficiency this Christmas? By testing new approaches with micro-RCTs! Learn more in our latest blog: interventions.whatworked.education/blog/christm...

Follow our '12 Days of Education Impact' Christmas Campaign & learn how to evidence your #impact #EvidenceBasedPractice

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Decision-making in schools is evolving. Micro-RCTs reduce evaluation time from years to weeks, empowering faster, scalable solutions. Learn more: interventions.whatworked.education

Big results from micro-trials! Students at St Joseph's Catholic School, Australia, improved their reading with #MicrosoftReadingProgress Curious to see if you can achieve similar success? Visit: www.whatworkedteachers.com #EdTech #Literacy #TeacherResources #ImproveReading #BlueskyEducation

Read excerpts from our latest blog with Jason Bennett, an Australian primary school teacher #Research #MicroRCTs #EvidenceInEducation #EducationAustralia #AusEd #EdResearchAU #EducationPolicyAU

#BonfireNight Alert! Don’t let your #EdTech fizzle out! There's an overwhelming variety of edtech tools and platforms, but these often have limited evidence of impact on learning. Test FREE educational tools in your classroom and get a personalised impact report with www.whatworkedteachers.com

This Halloween, Track Your Teaching Magic! Ready to transform your classroom? Our platform lets you test interventions with micro-RCTs and track results with a personalised impact report supported by our automated trial wizard 🧙🏼‍♀️ Visit whatworkedteachers.com #TeacherTools #EdResearch #Halloween

Ready to brew up some #spelling magic? This Halloween, test a FREE spelling #intervention on whatworkedteachers.com and get a personalised impact report with actionable data to refine your teaching for maximum #impact

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Big News! Our first Australian trial has been completed on the WhatWorked Teachers platform! We’re excited to dive into the data and explore what these findings mean for #evidencebasedteaching strategies in classrooms across #Australia. Stay tuned for the full breakdown! 👩‍🏫✨

Want to boost your students' spelling skills? We’ve got an intervention ready for you to test—completely FREE! Plus, you'll get a personalised, automated impact report to evaluate the impact in your classroom. Sign up at www.whatworkedteachers.com #TeacherTools #EdTech #Impact #Spelling #KS2 #KS3

Exciting results from WhatWorked Education & Bodyswaps! Virtual Reality improves public speaking skills in FE colleges. Students using VR Simulators scored higher in presentations (effect size 0.45). Read the full report: bodyswaps.co/resources/do... #VRinEducation #EdTech #WhatWorkedEducation

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Our FREE platform is here to help you test educational interventions and see what REALLY works for your students

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How are teachers to know if an edtech tool actually works? The blog discusses quality frameworks and accreditation for EdTech products.

With schools demanding more proof, we explore what “evidence-based” really means in our latest blog post. Learn about ESSA standards, global certifications, and how WhatWorked is helping schools make smarter edtech choices.

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Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools Seven recommendations related to reading, writing, talk, vocabulary development and supporting struggling students

If you are a secondary school teacher and you have not seen the EEF Guidance report 'Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools', this is a good read.

#literacy #schools #education #teachers #edusky

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Are you a KS3 Science teacher?

We released three new teacher trials last Friday to help you test a simple spelling intervention focused on subject specific keywords.

Visit: www.whatworkedteachers.com and filter England and science 😀

#edusky #KS3 #science #schools #education

Early Maths with EdTech — International Centre for EdTech Impact What works in digital maths education? Come and join the experts for an insightful discussion!

If you are interested in EdTech and maths, here is a link to register for a free webinar from the team at ICEI / WIKIT on 22nd October 2024 at 4pm.

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EdTech Researched Impact Course It is important for EdTech companies to test the effectiveness of their products because this helps ensure that the technology and resources they provide are actually improving educational outcomes fo...

We released a free course last year to support Edtech companies to understand evidence in education. The course introduces you to the main concepts such as research design, sample, outcome measures, implementation and context.

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