Good schools have leaders who can develop effective policies to raise standards. To ensure that new policies are effective successful leaders implement systems for monitoring the policy’s impact on standards in practice. For a new behaviour policy to be successful schools need to track behaviour.

In the Spring term of its first year as a new academy a West MIdlands school implemented a completely new Behaviour for Learning policy.  In order to support the new policy's introduction they used Sleuth to monitor the use of the policy in practice.  Within a term they have made a "massive improvement", an improvement that they can evidence in their SEF.

This case study features an in depth interview with the Vice Principal responsible for the new policy, in it she discusses:

• The need to improve consistency
• How to support staff in using the new policy
• Impact of the new policy on students and parents

In terms of supporting students, the Vice Principal says, "Sleuth is really powerful when we use it with students - day by day, period by period, it’s helpful to spot patterns and our conversations with parents, carers and students are really informed .. With our parents it has had a real benefit because of the type of dialogue we can have with them. Communication with parents is becoming much better"

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