Start with structure. Make it yours.
Use a ready-made framework or build one around your own improvement priorities. Keep a consistent structure while giving schools the flexibility to use the language and questions that make sense to them.
Consistency without forcing every school into the same box.
A shared structure makes evidence comparable. Controlled customisation makes the framework genuinely useful to the people using it.
Start with a curated framework
Get a useful structure immediately, then decide what should stay shared and what should change for your context.
Build around your priorities
Create your own focuses, elements and questions, then control the order they appear to walkers.
Override without starting again
Adapt shared framework content at school level while retaining the underlying structure needed for future comparison.
The platform adapts to your improvement process.
Schools and trusts do not all use the same language. Learning Walks lets you change the terminology staff see, as well as the framework content they use.
Rename terms such as “Walk” and other platform labels, adjust question wording and reorder content so the experience feels familiar rather than imposed.
Share the approach. Keep local context.
Create and manage frameworks centrally across a trust, while controlling where schools can make local adaptations.
Central management
Give organisation leaders a shared framework that can be used across multiple schools and trust-wide campaigns.
School overrides
Allow controlled local changes without each school having to rebuild the framework independently.
Compare only when it is valid
Keep the structural relationship needed to understand whether evidence from different schools or campaigns is genuinely compatible before comparing it.
Your framework will change. Your evidence history should still make sense.
Framework versioning lets your approach evolve while preserving the structure and history needed to understand earlier walks and make responsible comparisons over time.
Start with a framework. Make it work for you.
All framework tools are included as part of the Learning Walks platform.