This session will explore lessons the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has learnt in supporting schools to use evidence in England. The session will have a particular focus on building local school networks and what teachers, school leaders and other educationalists in Rotterdam might want to consider when setting up a local partnership focused on research.

In the first decade at the EEF, we have:
– developed a Teaching and Learning Toolkit to make research evidence more accessible to teachers and school leaders;
– run over 300 research studies in schools in England to improve the evidence base;
– supported schools to engage with the research, particularly through developing a Research School Network.

Awareness and use of research in schools in England have both come a long way in our first decade, but we have learnt lessons about what has not worked too. This session will be an honest reflection of what is working, what needs work, and what I think might work in Rotterdam