The Journal for Executive and Governance Leaders
The Journal for Executive and Governance Leaders
Topic - School Trusts and Collaboration
As the lockdown eases and we continue to refine our Trust’s strategic approach in readiness for the new academic year, being agile and confident in response to whatever the Autumn brings is what is now driving us. Tudor Grange Academies Trust is a family of 10 academies within the Midlands…
Embark Federation is an Education Charitable Trust that serves 3,000 children and their families. Formed in January 2019, it now works with 9 schools, (soon to become 12) in four different areas across Derbyshire. The shared vision for the trust is to “create schools that ‘stand out’ at the heart…
When I was asked to write this piece, the world was a different place. The original article that I had written was about how we were working across REAch2 to deliver a truly exceptional education to every child in our care, and how trust leadership is about transforming lives. Roll…
To put this in some context: academisation is still relatively young. And in this short space of time, those who academised have had to formalise collaboration with relatively little support, and create the most sustainable way of existing outside of the local authority. The DfE didn’t mandate multi academy trusts…
Reflecting on the word ‘Trust’ - the ‘T’ of our Multi Academy or Single Academy Trust designation - centres our thinking on the importance of our relationships with one another, and the extent to which they reflect our vision and values. Trust is created between institutions, teams, individuals and children,…
Since multi-academy trusts were created, or school trusts as we would now know them, there has been much discussion about what it is that great MATs do that transform standards and the quality of teaching and learning in schools. In 2017 a group of trust CEOs in the South West…