Mouchel Education Rationale
‘…it is the relentless focus on establishing the essentials of teaching and learning …that lays the foundation for every school being great.’
(David Hopkins in Every School a Great School)
Mouchel has a proven track record in the Academies and BSF programmes and in its work in school improvement. The background to this success is a simple but powerful rationale which informs our engagement and involvement in any project that relates to the quality of educational provision.
We are
Flexible. This allows us to work with sponsors and groups with a variety of educational priorities, preferences and principles.
Optimistic. We believe that with our help any school can transform itself into a great school.
Enthusiastic about those national policies that are driven by the desire for excellence in our schools.
Pragmatic. We allow no single ideology of education to distract us in our ambition to support our client groups in their aspiration to create outstanding schools.
Principled. Our work is underpinned by a set of non-negotiable principles, against which we evaluate potential clients’ aspirations before determining whether our involvement is appropriate.
Our principles
There must be a commitment to a strong culture of teaching and learning to inform strategic decision making in all areas.
Change must be proposed for specified, valid reasons relating to sustained improvement.
Innovation must be grounded in evidence – best practice and sound research.
The quality of pupils’ experiences in learning is as important in strategic planning as the quality of their measurable learning outcomes and both are key drivers in establishing success criteria and the focus for change.
Core values must be established and preserved; strategies and operating practices should prove endlessly adaptable in our changing world.
Robust analysis of where a school is, where it should be, and how it can get there must be based on all available evidence.