Bridging the Gap: Improving Outcomes for Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Learners

Marc Rowland Advisor at the Unity Schools Partnership

Webinar 1hr 4min

In this webinar, Marc Rowland, the UK’s national authority on effective Pupil Premium provision, discusses how schools and colleges can act now to help bridge the education gap. He will explore how settings can implement a high expectations and inclusive teaching strategy to help negate the impact of closures on the attainment of disadvantaged children and young people.

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This webinar will provide governors, senior leaders and headteachers with an evidence-based approach towards improving outcomes for disadvantaged learners.

The limited opening of schools and colleges means that many children and young people will have experienced a loss of learning time, peer relationships, teacher relationships, subject knowledge, curriculum breadth, structure, routine and support around their wellbeing. The impact of this will be disproportionately felt by pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. With many settings already facing challenges in trying to overcome an attainment gap, it means that many disadvantaged children and young people are likely to fall even further behind.

In this webinar, Marc Rowland, the UK’s national authority on effective Pupil Premium provision, discusses how schools can act now to help bridge the education gap. He will explore how settings can implement a high expectations and inclusive teaching strategy to help negate the impact of school and college closures on the attainment of disadvantaged children and young people.

Marc Rowland

Marc Rowland is a foremost expert on the effective use of the Pupil Premium and improving outcomes for disadvantaged learners.

He is or has worked with the DfE, the Jersey government, numerous local authorities and over 500 individual schools to support them with their strategies to improve outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. His work with the Jersey government on the introduction and implementation of a ‘Jersey Pupil Premium’ led to marked improvement in outcomes for disadvantaged pupils there.

Marc is currently the adviser for improving outcomes for disadvantaged learners for the Unity Schools Partnership. He is also working with the Education Endowment Foundation’s national Research School Network on the roll out of their national Pupil Premium training programme and on a range of programmes focused on educational disadvantage nationally.

Marc has spoken to approximately 10,000 school leaders at conferences on Pupil Premium, from Northumberland to Cornwall. He led a review of the use and impact of Pupil Premium in the Oldham and Derby Opportunity Areas, and in East Sussex Local Authority, to be published in May 2020.

Over the past five years, Marc has worked with Rosendale Research School on two major school-based research projects on Lesson Study and Metacognition. The latter being a large scale RCT funded by the EEF.

Marc is also an author. The second edition of his award-winning book, ‘An Updated Practical Guide to the Pupil Premium’, was published in December 2015 (John Catt Educational). His latest book ‘Learning without Labels’ was also published by John Catt in March 2017. Marc has also contributed to a number of other publications, such as ‘The Forgotten Third’, edited by Roy Blatchford CBE, ‘Great Expectations’, edited by David Bartram OBE, and ‘Spotlight on Disadvantage’ from the National Governors Association.

Marc is also an education adviser to the Driftwood Association, a charitable association funding small scale projects in Nepal and was also Director of Policy and Research for the National Education Trust from 2007 to 2017.

He was formerly the Head of Rosendale Research School in Lambeth.

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