Between August 2023 and July 2024 Abigail D’Amore Associates supported Arts Council England’s Creativity Collaboratives pilot programme as evaluation consultants.
Our brief was to deepen understanding of an ambitious, multi-stakeholder programme that aimed to implement Teaching for Creativity in a variety of school and educational settings across England. We worked closely with the eight collaborative partners nationally to facilitate a set of evaluation activities which included:
Consensus workshops: facilitated seven ‘consensus workshops’ with 95 teachers and senior leaders across England to establish a consensus of individual opinions and ideas into a consensus around the impact of Teaching for Creativity.
Data collection: conducted a series of in-person and online interviews with pupils, teachers and senior leaders in a variety of educational settings to deepen understanding around the impact of Teaching for Creativity and the conditions needed for this to thrive.
Data review: collated, reviewed and conducted a top-level thematic analysis of data collected by university partners and collaborative leaders
Reporting: formulated findings into summaries and reports, and presented these to various stakeholders.
Creativity Collaboratives is continuing in a legacy phase, and Abigail D’Amore Associates has now been appointed as lead national evaluator, implementing a national evaluation that has been co-designed with pupils and teachers.
Read our evaluation report here.
Read our pupil voice report on ‘What is Creativity’ here.
ADA associates who worked on this project were: Abigail D’Amore and Jennifer Raven.
