LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Alps Summit
Alps provides exam and progress tracking analysis via Connect and Summit, our on-line platforms, for over 1,300 schools, colleges and groups in the UK and Internationally. This year, Alps is at its most innovative and productive to date.
Launching our groundbreaking group platform Summit, at both KS4 and KS5, we continue to deliver our first class, easy to use analysis to a greater network of Multi-Academy Trusts than ever before. Summit delivers what MAT leaders and managers want: a central source of truth, with real-time, accurate performance data across their schools, that is easy to understand and interpret for all the stakeholders. Equipped with a packed training schedule for the Autumn term, brand new marketing initiatives and additions to our team, Alps Education is ready to support our Trusts, schools, colleges in the months to come. To celebrate the successes over this period, we’d like to put Alps forward for the Leadership and Management Solutions Award and thank the whole Alps team for the continuing innovations they have made, and the huge successes seen as a result.
BlueSky Education
BlueSky Education is the leading online staff performance and development platform for the education sector, supporting thousands of schools worldwide to enhance appraisal, professional development processes and nourish a culture of strategic improvement.
Designed by educationalists, it gives school and multi-academy trust leaders a deep understanding of how professional learning and development are raising standards of teaching and learning, and how all teachers and school employees are contributing to the achievement of organisation priorities.
Every aspect of appraisal and performance reviews, continued professional learning and school evaluation is captured, allowing leaders to easily gain a holistic, comprehensive view of how strategic decisions are helping staff to evolve classroom practice.
BlueSky Education is used by over 1500 schools in over 40 countries worldwide, and is the only technology solution of its kind endorsed by the Association of School and College Leaders and the Confederation of School Trusts, and is a long-established partner of many national and international organisations including ISBL, BSME, COBIS, FOBISIA and High Performance Learning.
CPOMS Systems
As a trusted partner to more than 17,000 UK schools and establishments, we are excited to offer CPOMS Engage. By removing information silos across settings via its unique share contract authorised staff can easily view a more complete picture of a child’s wellbeing. Teams can more readily connect the dots in a situation and address pupil concerns before they become significant problems. With CPOMS Engage, we can truly leverage a multi-agency approach where information is readily shared, and expertise and talents are put to good use for the benefit of the child.
Gershon Learning – Effective Teaching and Learning
Effective Teaching and Learning (ETL) is a comprehensive teacher CPD package. It contains 30 courses and ten written guides covering ten key areas of teaching and learning: Feedback, Metacognition, Independent Learning, Scaffolding and Modelling, Differentiation, AFL, Talk, Discussion and Oracy, Maximising the Impact of TAs, Collaborative Learning, and Pupil Voice.
The suite of CPD materials are rooted in research, yet highly practical. Each course contains a minimum of 20 strategies teachers, leaders and teaching assistants can use to develop and enhance teaching and learning. Courses are interactive throughout, with reflection questions, learner activities and a course workbook in which to capture progress.
Leaders and managers are using ETL to drive improvements in teaching and learning. When a school signs up for access, all teachers and teaching assistants are able to access the full suite of materials. Simplicity and ease-of-use are at the heart of the ETL design. There are no dashboards and all materials are accessible as soon as a school purchases the product.
Brought to you by Gershon Learning Limited, 1500 schools already have access to Effective Teaching and Learning and teachers are using the materials across three continents. www.effectiveteachingandlearning.co.uk
IRIS Software Group – Every HR By IRIS
Managing HR in the education sector presents unique challenges, such as navigating specific pay scales, salary structures and pension filings. These challenges have been magnified by the ongoing struggles with staff pay, the intense competition for talent and the retention crisis plaguing the industry. To tackle these issues head-on, IRIS Software Group (IRIS) presents Every HR, an all-encompassing software solution tailored for schools and multi-academy trusts (MATs).
By automating essential day-to-day HR activities, Every HR empowers educators to prioritise their core mission: teaching. The software streamlines processes and provides education leaders with a centralised platform to efficiently manage and support employees.
With a focus on managing people rather than processes, Every HR streamlines various HR touch points for staff, including performance objectives, contractual changes, holidays, absence tracking and training. The software offers dedicated modules that cover every aspect of the HR journey, allowing schools and trusts to consolidate multiple systems into one and streamline data entry.
Medical Tracker – Student & Staff Health Management
Medical Tracker removes the need for paperwork relating to incidents (incl injuries and illnesses) medication administration and medical condition reporting for students, staff and visitors. Enhancing efficiency, communication, standardisation, compliance, and collaboration. Medical Tracker significantly contributes to creating safer educational environments within multi-academy trusts and schools.
Medical Tracker allows for real-time incident reporting and notifications. This ensures that incidents are reported promptly, enabling quick communication and timely interventions, thus addressing the delay issue of paper-based systems.
Medical Tracker enforces standardised incident reporting formats across your whole school or multi-academy trust, eliminating the inconsistencies that often arise with paper forms. This consistency simplifies data analysis and ensures that all necessary information is captured uniformly.
The inclusion of built-in analytics tools in Medical Tracker facilitates data analysis for trends and insights. Trust or school staff can easily identify patterns, helping them make informed decisions and improve safety measures.
With an integration with your management information system all student, staff, parent/carer and medical conditions pull through and are updated automatically.
Join over 60,000 users and organise a demonstration today at www.medicaltracker.co.uk
National Education Group – The National College
The National College has been transforming CPD design and delivery, developing a vast, online CPD programme accessible via a bespoke platform which automates and centralises CPD management and reporting.
Today, our resources – which include 4,800+ webinars, courses, articles, templates, lesson plans, model policies and guides – help education leaders in 46,000 settings worldwide ensure compliance and drive up standards.
We have launched a brand-new platform, which brings together our award-winning brands The National College and National Online Safety in one location, creating CPD of a breadth and quality unlike anything on the market. Our platform incorporates cutting-edge software to help leaders quickly and efficiently address training priorities aligned with their improvement strategy.
Membership with The National College grants the whole education workforce access to all our resources, facilitating a movement away from top-down direction, towards self-directed learning. At the same time, the platform incorporates powerful CPD management tools. Leaders can plan, direct, track, record and report on CPD progress at user, group, school or trust level in a few clicks. In this way, they can quickly and efficiently fulfil statutory training requirements and address training priorities aligned with their setting’s improvement goals.
National Education Group – The School Bus
The School Bus offers invaluable support for school leaders, providing expert-led advice, time-saving templates and policies, and an easy way to track compliance and policy management. With four powerful compliance solutions all in one subscription, a membership offers unbeatable value.
Members of The School Bus unlock a wealth of benefits:
• Trusted expert advice and an extensive collection of templates and policies covering every aspect of school management
• Audit compliance against essential areas, including safeguarding, data protection, and health and safety, and ensure risk is managed and compliance excellence is achieved
• Track, approve and distribute policies with ease, receiving instant notifications when policies are updated
• Keep yourself, staff members and governors up-to-date with the latest sector developments
• Tap into sector-leading experts, asking them questions about your unique challenges
• Never miss a crucial date or deadline by integrating The School Year directly with your calendar
The School Bus is a vital toolkit for school leaders, offering unparalleled resources and solutions to ensure compliance.
