Staff training and professional development are at the core of the CET
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You cannot build great schools without great teaching and great support services. Cranmer is a national leader of teacher training and development.
Our ethos is collaborative and relationships are strong. Trust and school leaders work together to develop the principles and frameworks for continuous improvement, based on our shared values. Our school improvement team taps into the expertise in our schools to develop models of provision and guides for implementation which support each other at different stages of development. Our Trust Operating Model ensures that how we work with individual schools is tailored to the school. Great schools focus on what their students need and the CET focuses on what our schools need, working with and alongside to build capacity, encourage creativity, ensure sustainability Our schools do things together, from Cranmer Games (competitive!) to the poetry competition (moving and inspiring).
We are prepared and we have invested and planned for sustainable growth, this includes our central business services, our school improvement provision, and the potential for wider support for children’s learning which is needed in areas of high disadvantage. We have built our strong structures and partnerships over many years, truly working together across our region and beyond and through the growth of our schools and our people.
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A multi-academy trust has a single legal and moral purpose at the heart of the Articles of Association: to advance education for public benefit. Within one legal entity, with aligned processes and systems and the ability to strategically move the organisation, there is a successful model for making sustainable, long-lasting change and to transform the lives of our children and communities.
There is an emerging body of evidence beginning with an early large-scale study by Chapman and Muijs into what they called ‘performance federations’ – groups of schools in shared governance arrangements, including the early multi-academy trusts. The findings of this research suggest students attending performance federations outperformed a matched sample of their peers in non-federated schools in terms of their attainment.
Chapman, C. andMuijs, D. (2014) Does school-to-school collaboration promote school improvement? A study of the impact of school federations on student outcomes. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 25 (3), pp. 351-393
In the collaborative structure of a school trust, it is more possible for teachers and leaders to move to another school to help improve the quality of education where that school is struggling – and these moves are more likely to be to schools with more disadvantaged pupils.
Added value for children and young people is at the heart of the school trust purpose. Schools who work together in purposeful collaboration create a multiplier, with high expectations around synergy and creating transformational improvements.
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As a teacher, you have the opportunity to change a child’s life forever. Our mission is to train teachers who will inspire, challenge and support. Through the Manchester Nexus SCITT we prepare trainees to encourange, motivate, and inpire EVERY young person to be the best they can be.
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