Guest presenter: Maria Cunningham, Teacher Development Trust and member of the DfE Expert Group for Teacher Development.

Intended aim(s):
The Teacher Development Trust has long recognised the need for schools and Trusts to prioritise the leadership of teacher development. This includes senior leaders assuming explicit responsibility for the professional learning of their colleagues and developing internal capacity in the planning, designing, evaluating and championing of high-quality CPD. We believe there should be a collective drive across the profession to recognise and draw upon existing great pedagogical thinking and put teachers’ expertise at the heart; with all schools being able to access models of excellent practice, accompanied by rich underlying thinking and research.

One of the ways in which there is great potential to drive this is through establishing local hubs and communities of leaders, dedicated to collectively improving the quality and culture of CPD in our schools. By giving senior and middle leaders a regular opportunity to come together in a safe space and really be strategic about improving the quality of teaching and learning, Bradford Teaching School Hub is inspiring new dialogues to open up between schools in order to share best practice, apply the evidence to co-design CPD that addresses challenges specific to the communities they serve and sustain a thriving conversation underpinned by a shared understanding that schools can only get better when the people within them get better. 

• To introduce support school and trust leaders to develop and access high-quality professional learning for their school and/ore trust

Intended objectives(s):
• To outline the remit of Copthorne Primary School and Exceed Academies Trust in leading Bradford Teaching School Hub
• To share the Hub’s principles and ways of working with Bradford’s schools, trusts and the local authority
• To outline support available to Bradford’s leaders of teacher development
• Support delegates through tailoring the content of the event/programme to the local context
• Make explicit links between theory, evidence-based research and practice
• Build on delegates’ prior knowledge during the event/series of events
• Facilitate structured collaboration between delegates, schools and/or trusts
• To support delegates to identify goals or objectives to support them in their role and/or to benefit their school and/or trust
• To deliver and event/programme that aligns to the DfE’s Standards for Teachers’ Professional Development

Intended impact:
This event/programme will support delegates to:
• understand how national policy is evolving
• be aware of how national policy is being developed and applied in the region
• develop their awareness of the support available to their school and/or trust
• make sustained changes to their practice
• increase the impact of their role within their school or trusts specific context
• develop the vision for their school and/or trust for the benefit of pupils
• provide feedback during and/or following the event/programme

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