Easily capture learning and progress for learners with SEND while engaging
your entire team of educators, support staff, clinicians, and families around each child.
How to show what learning and progress looks like for learners with SEND
Imagine if you could easily create a comprehensive picture and narrative that shows how you are meeting needs, aspirations, and goals in line with EHCPs and IEPs
...all the while demonstrating the breadth and depth of a lived curriculum for your SEND learners.
Book a 30 minute web demo today!
Capture every SEND learner's engagement, learning, and progress with photos, videos and text to build a clear, comprehensive, and powerful picture over time.
With the Evidence for Learning app, you can empower the entire team around each child with real-time access to the small and subtle aspects of learning that you're recording, mapped to EHCPs and IEPs. Teachers, support staff, SENCos, curriculum leads, senior leaders, clinicians, and local authority colleagues to the pupil and their family, can all access Evidence for Learning.
That picture can be used to support professional conversations about learning and assessment, refine practices, and enhance how you work in partnership with families, providing professional development opportunities across your school.
Welcome to Evidence for Learning.
Evidence for Learning has been developed closely with the specialist sector over the past 10 to 12 years and is now in use in 80% of specialist schools. As mainstream schools continue to support higher numbers of pupils with SEND, our EfL app has been used increasingly by 100s of mainstream settings.
To improve the learning opportunities and outcomes for your learners and families, we focus on supporting children, young people, and adults with additional learning or Special Education Needs — placing the learner at the heart of everything we do.
Through enhancing collaboration between stakeholders — teachers, support staff, SENCos, curriculum leads, clinicians (including speech and language therapists, occupational and physical therapists), SaLTs, VI/HI advisers, local authority colleagues, and parents — and combining teaching, learning, and provision, schools can effectively refine their practices.
With over 1.5 million pupils in England with special educational needs (an increase of 87,000 from 2022)*, 30% of parents feeling excluded from the SEND process**, and 22% of mainstream teachers feeling they’re unable to meet the needs of learners with SEND***, we believe this approach is essential for mainstream and specialist settings.
*Special Educational Needs in England, Academic Year 2022/23 — GOV.UK
**Children with SEND and the Emotional Impact on Parents 2019 — nasen Journal
***The School Snapshot Survey: Summer 2019 — DfE
Easily capture learning and progress for EVERY learner with SEND in your mainstream setting.
Reduce workload
Using the app, your team will save time collecting and recording observations through photos and videos, as well as generating reports and sharing each child’s progress with all relevant stakeholders.
Show progress
Demonstrate progress for your most complex learners by building a clear narrative that showcases their engagement and achievements and threads through EHCPs, IEPs, support plans, and aspects of input from teaching and provisions — defining the breadth and depth of your curriculum.
Personalise EHCP approach
Easily show how learners with SEND are making progress in line with EHCPs as part of your personalised, learner-centred approach. How are you meeting their needs and incorporating support plans into a lived curriculum? (We’ll show you how easy it can be!)
Involve parents and carers
Minimise any anxiety families of learners with SEND are feeling by celebrating and sharing those WOW moments. Give them a clear picture of what their child is doing, break down teaching strategies, and share these with parents and carers to encourage learning at home.
Gain insights for CPD
Help your support staff become more effective by enabling you to share knowledge, insights, and understanding about the needs of every learner with SEND — understanding how to best engage them and improve learning outcomes.
Get instant access in one place
With tags, frameworks, assessment books, and query and filter tools, your team will have real-time access to all learning and progress data in one GDPR-compliant place! (Ideal for presenting to Ofsted inspectors or external stakeholders.)
Be a part of the EfL LearningShared Community
In using Evidence for Learning, you're part of a community comprising hundreds of specialist and mainstream schools across the UK.
Plus, there's the opportunity to participate in events* as part of the EfL LearningShared Community.
As an EfL LearningShared Community member, you can learn how other SENCos, headteachers, and teachers have built narratives to demonstrate the breadth and depth of the curriculum based on a learner-centered approach in their specialist and mainstream settings.
*Some of these events are available to join at an additional cost.
Build a clear and powerful progression narrative
Tell the story of your learners with SEND using the 3 foundational principles of our leaner-centred approach…
Nurture
collaboration
Share understanding about each learner across the whole team — enabling you to make better-informed contributions to every learner's journey and supporting professional conversations.
Build a clear picture and narrative…
Thread the important and appropriate elements through the rich narrative of learning you're building — proving how your actions align with EHCPs, IEPs, support plans, aspects of input, etc. A clear narrative will allow you to demonstrate the breadth and depth of your curriculum to stakeholders and Ofsted inspectors.
Use that
picture
From the narrative you've built, you can use that picture to support professional conversations and assessments, refine practices, improve family partnerships, and create continued PD across your school.
Professor Barry Carpenter CBE, OBE, PhD
Professor of Mental Health in Education, Oxford Brookes University, Principal Adviser to EfL.
“The Evidence for Learning app, for me, is the final piece in the complex jigsaw of meeting the needs of children with special or additional educational needs – especially those with complex learning needs. It does not presume a particular developmental pathway but rather offers to the creative teacher a tool of inquiry.
It enables the teacher to investigate, discover, and find out, for and with the child, their pathway to successful learning. As such it is a powerful change agent; a catalyst for stimulating a process of meaningful inquiry.
It liberates teachers from the constraints of traditional curriculum models and facilitates a curriculum that is responsive the complex profile of learning presented by so many 21st century children. It celebrates, through its personalised approach to assessment, the attainment and achievement of all children.
In particular, it enables us, as teachers, to address the mental health needs of our children, and to develop a well-being approach that truly meets their deepest emotional needs.”
“It's an app where you can celebrate the success of children with better educational needs. It's a way of capturing meaningful observation and meaningful assessments so that you can get next steps for every child individually.”
Alex Revens
Assistant Headteacher & Inclusion Manager
Belmont School, London
“It's like the answer to your prayers around providing support for children that have additional needs, that allow you to evidence the support that is going on and allow you to reflect on your practice, but also to show parents especially in mainstream, that they are making progress, they're not just stuck and they're working towards their own goals.”
Cheryl Gaughan
Director SEND and Inclusion
JMAT Schools, Rotherham
“Our learners do amazing things, but these magic moments are not always easily captured in the traditional sense. Evidence for Learning allows us to capture those moments and demonstrate the outstanding progress being made.”
Andy Holden
Head of Achievement
Selworthy School, Somerset
“Using Evidence for Learning has transformed how we capture holistic progress over time, and has supported integrated provision. It is a way to share learning with parents and the multi-professional team… all with a device staff can keep in their pocket.”
Vijita Patel
Principal & National Leader of Education (NLE)
Swiss Cottage School and Development & Research Centre, London
“Evidence for Learning has truly revolutionised how we capture everything from pupil evidence, assessment, and data in one centralised package. The sheer flexibility of the product allows us to use it across the whole school from 7-19 with an array of needs.”
Oliver Flowers
Headteacher
The Westminster School, West Midlands
“Evidence for Learning has enabled us to transform our pupils' learning experience, capturing visual & video evidence of their learning and progress and enabling highly effective quality feedback, which easily identifies their next steps in learning. It has been embraced by all our teachers as it supports their awareness of learning and progress across all aspects of a pupil’s development, providing an holistic record of their progress over time. We have seen increased parent engagement with parents feeling involved in their child’s learning and progress in a new and exciting way.”
Kieran Welsh
Headteacher
Astley Park School, Lancashire
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