Lauren Meadows

Curriculum Lead, Unity Schools Partnership

Lauren Meadows works as a Curriculum Lead for Unity Schools Partnership, serving over 40 schools in the East of England and several hundred schools as part of their international curriculum partnership. Lauren has worked with a wide range of national organisations, advising on curriculum and assessment design and strategic school improvement, including partnering with Alex Bedford to co-author Curriculum with Unity Schools Partnership (CUSP). She has dedicated her life to improving educational outcomes for children across the sector. Driven by her servitude to children and the belief that it is possible for every child to receive an excellent education, she has worked with primary, secondary, special and alternative provision settings across the country. She also works with the Research Schools Network, delivers NPQs and is currently studying assessment design at Cambridge University.

Build capability and capacity

1 Workshop series two

Schools without walls: A trust case study - Unity Schools Partnership

Unity Schools Partnership is rooted in a commitment to building a sustainable legacy of excellence, both for the communities that our schools serve and more broadly within the education sector. This workshop will explore the principles that underpin its school improvement strategy and how these are exemplified in some of its key initiatives. Lauren will explore the idea of education as a generative entity and unpack how Unity Schools Partnership has harnessed the power of horizontal working within its own family of schools and connecting with hundreds of other schools nationwide to achieve a genuine step-change in educational standards. This workshop relates to the 'build capability and capacity' strand of the conceptual model.

1 Workshop series one

Transforming business services to improve support for schools

At our last Finance and Operations Conference, we heard how Dixons Academies Trust was radically reimagining its business services to schools, and the rigorous foundations it had established for service transformation. A year on, we are delighted to welcome the Dixons' Project and Service Leads back to share their experience of implementation. Amanda Bailey, Orrin Campbell and Tom Rennie will set out what has been achieved in phase one, its impact, and the feedback received. They will also outline how and what the second phase will deliver in spring 2025, and their new approach to the continuous improvement of business services to their schools.