Year 6 to Year 7 Transition

July 2020 ASCL, askEddi and the Open Data Project are building a data sharing solution to ease pupil transition from Year 6 to Year 7.  The summer term is key for transition for Year 6 to Year 7 and this year is no exception. The difference is the restrictions on […]

Get a head start on school data

The ASCL Open Data Project for Schools is the ideal starting point for schools to understand and benchmark their data. Schools that enrol now can get set up this term and be fully prepared for the new school year.  The project places schools firmly at the heart of performance management, […]

Supporting Schools to learn from each other

Improving how schools use and learn from data is still one of our top priorities for the next school year. We are encouraging schools to take part in our Open Data Project to explore links and patterns in their data and ultimately improve attendance and attainment.  Developed by school leaders and delivered […]

The Open Data Project for Schools

We spoke to Duncan Baldwin, Deputy Director of Policy at ASCL, about the Open Data Project for Schools – an exciting multi-school endeavour to help school leaders to deliver school improvement through better insight into their data.

The Future of School Data

Wouldn’t it be great if you could use the data your school already collects to make targeted, real-time interventions, instead of waiting for statistics and summaries at the end of the term or even the school year? What if your team could spend more time planning and teaching lessons and […]

Launching ASCL’s Open Data Project for Schools

Following an extensive pilot, ASCL (supported by technical partner askEddi) is making its collaborative Open Data Project available for all schools. Data from schools’ management systems (or any other source) can be used to support individual or groups of schools to learn from each other.  The schools involved in the pilot […]

School Leaders Recommend AskEddi

As one of the early adopters and pilot schools in the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) Open Schools Data Project, powered by askEddi, Head Teacher Richard O’Regan reflects on how he came to join the pilot and his experience of using the askEddi platform to record and analyse […]