Starting your Evidence for Learning journey as a Senior Leader
Everything you need to confidently introduce EfL across your school or trust. Built from real experiences of leaders already using EfL in practice.
Join the next live onboarding webinar
This will be an opportunity to meet with the EfL Team and potentially other schools who are just starting their journey with Evidence for Learning.
From capturing evidence to confident decisions
This is how leaders are using EfL to build understanding and improve outcomes across their setting.
- 1. Getting started
Start small and focus on what matters most.
Many leaders begin with one class, group or provision, agreeing a shared purpose such as improving reviews, capturing small steps of progress, or strengthening communication with families.
Focus on meaningful evidence that builds understanding, not volume.
- 4. Impact
As EfL becomes embedded, the impact is clear.
Leaders report improved understanding of learners, more confident decision-making, and stronger alignment across teams.
Small steps of progress are recognised, and evidence becomes more meaningful and useful in reviews and planning.
- 2. Challenges
Leaders are working with increasingly complex needs.
Learning is often non-linear and difficult to capture through traditional systems. Evidence is spread across different places, making it hard to build a complete picture or confidently show impact.
Teams need a more joined-up, human way of understanding learning.
- 5. Top Tips
Keep it simple and purposeful.
Start with a small pilot, capture short moments of learning, and build reflection into meetings and reviews.
Focus on what is useful, not what is easy to collect, and always keep the child at the centre.
- 3. Benefits
EfL brings clarity and connection across your setting.
Evidence from different people and contexts comes together in one place, helping teams build a shared understanding of each learner and make more informed decisions.
It supports stronger conversations with families, staff and governors.
- 6. Next Steps
As confidence grows, EfL becomes part of everyday practice.
Leaders begin to embed it into reviews, reporting and CPD, and scale its use across classes, phases or the whole trust.
Over time, it strengthens a culture of understanding, inclusion and collaboration.
What our leaders are saying
Features:
- Work with customised assessment criteria and individualised targets
- Supports individual learning plans, EHCPs, progression frameworks, and accreditation
- Record small and subtle improvements using photos, videos, audio, notes, and judgements, all linked to targets
- Create Assessment Books with your own assessment schemes or widely-used models like MAPP
- Evaluate learning using areas of engagement and generate rich learning journeys instantly
- Share progress with families and carers through a simple app and secure parent portal
- Gain real-time access to valuable insights for you and your stakeholders, based on comprehensive data and evidence collected through Evidence for Learning
Benefits:
- Create a comprehensive picture of learning, well-being, and progress, demonstrating the impact of your curriculum and support while showcasing learner achievements.
- Assess and track progress using any curriculum framework, including custom and EHCP targets, with automatic links between evidence, outcomes, and judgements.
- Use tools for assessing engagement and gain deeper insights into learner needs and effective pedagogy.
- Save time and stay informed for planning, assessment, and learning discussions, while better engaging parents, families, and carers in their child’s development.
- Support multi-agency collaboration with evidence-informed conversations, fostering a culture of inquiry across the school.
- Generate and share data that reflects actual learning and progress in your setting.