Webinar

Microsoft UK & Nurture: Formative Assessment with AI

A 30-minute session with Professor Dylan Wiliam and Wessex MAT CEO Mike Foley on how AI-powered formative assessment can drive school improvement.

Professor Dylan Wiliam · 18 November 2025

Microsoft UK & Nurture: Formative Assessment with AI

With Microsoft UK and Nurture. For school and trust leaders in the United Kingdom.

School and trust leaders are under pressure to raise attainment while protecting teacher time. In this 30-minute leadership session, Professor Dylan Wiliam and Wessex MAT CEO Mike Foley join Nurture and Microsoft UK to show how AI-powered formative assessment can become the core lever for school improvement, not just another initiative.

In this webinar we discuss

  • Why formative assessment is the most powerful bridge between teaching and learning.
  • Formative assessment at scale — using Nurture to close the feedback loop and increase student reflection.
  • Embedding a culture where students act on feedback and grow as self-regulated learners.
  • Prioritising among competing initiatives so formative assessment becomes a trust-wide focus.
  • Keeping pedagogy before AI — using technology to free teacher time for high-impact classroom decisions.

Your speakers

Professor Dylan Wiliam — Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment, University College London. In a varied career, he has taught in inner-city schools, directed a large-scale testing programme, served a number of roles in university administration, including Dean of a School of Education, and pursued a research programme focused on supporting teachers to develop their use of assessment in support of learning.

Mike Foley — Chief Executive Officer of the Wessex Multi-Academy Trust, a family of schools in Dorset built around the principle that “learning is everything” and that young people should be encouraged to unlock, rather than limit, their potential. In a career spanning school and system leadership, he has served as Headteacher of The Thomas Hardye School in Dorchester and has been closely involved in collaborative initiatives such as the Dorchester Area Schools Partnership, helping to promote school-to-school support so that staff across the trust’s primary, middle and upper schools work together to secure the best possible education for every pupil.

Access the full webinar

The full recording is available on demand. Register to watch the complete session and hear the key takeaways and practical examples from Professor Dylan Wiliam, Mike Foley, Nurture and Microsoft UK.

On-demand webinar

Watch the full recording

Get free access to watch this webinar now.

Free access

Watch the full recording

Complete the short form below to start watching straight away. We’ll also email you a link so you can return any time.

We’ll only use your details to send you this resource and related materials. See our privacy policy.

Make feedback matter

Become a school organisation at the forefront of formative assessment.

Chat to us about how we can help you embed formative assessment and feedback in your school or organisation.