WELCOME to SIFA UK

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WELCOME to SIFA UK

• Mark Phillips DfES
• Data Services Operations Director
• SIFA UK Chair

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A quick reminder

• SIF is not about
• convenience to the centre
• Nor even local authorities
• (though it might change our modi operandi forever
  and for the better)
• SIF is about
• GIVING TEACHERS MORE TIME TO TEACH, AND
• ENABLING THEM TO TEACH BETTER

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Gartner study of Ohio

• Data driven decisions for Academic Achievement in
  Ohio (Bill Rust)
• The opportunity to use data to guide instruction
  rather than to judge it forensically
• provides teachers with a tool that identifies
  instructional resource aligned to student
  assessment data

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DfES engagement

• Considerable resource devoted to POC by CIOG to
  complete the links
• Policy fuse lit stand well clear
• Nick Tomlinson Head of New Relationship with
  Schools Data sub-Programme

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Internationalisation

• Recognition that SIF is out of the bag. Not
  Parochial.
• More rigour, more vigour
• Dr Larry Fruth II
• The Australian experience
• Internet Plasticity Nodes The International
  Perspective
• (Tim Riley and Bren Taylor)

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ENGAGE!ENJOY!

• Mark Phillips DfES
• Data Services Operations Director
• SIFA UK Chair