Research Archives

CPD Spending Plummets

by David Weston | 21 Oct, 2022 | Leadership, Research

In new analysis being released today (Friday 21st October, 2022) in association with SchoolDash, we have found that, by 2021, schools’ spending on staff professional development had fallen by over 40% since 2018 in real terms. The fall was particularly acute in...

Sustainability and Climate Education: Creating the Foundations for Effective Improvement report

by Matthew | 11 Jul, 2022 | 2022, Press Release, Research

As educators, we are faced with the inconvenient truth that climate change is likely to have a greater impact on vulnerable communities. It is because of this that we encourage all school leaders and teachers to begin with the ‘why’ of sustainability and climate...

Benchmarking the 4 things that matter for teachers’ working environments

by Sam Sims | 7 Jan, 2022 | 2022, Research

Launching his new research-based diagnostic tool, exclusively for TDT member schools, Dr Sam Sims explores new research about the four aspects of working environments that make a particular difference to job satisfaction and retention. TDT’s Culture of Improvement...

The Case for Research-Informed CPD Delivered Within Subject

by Matthew | 8 Jun, 2021 | 2021, Guest Post, Research

For much of my teaching career, I knew very little about educational research. I seemed to survive pretty well without it. Like a lot of teachers, I achieved good results and was well-respected by my colleagues. I might even have been tempted to argue that we can...

Lowering teacher stress through CPD & teamwork

by Sam Sims | 9 Apr, 2021 | Research

Dr Sam Sims has just joined the Teacher Development Trust as our new Research Advisor. He writes for us here on some exclusive new research findings from the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey. TDT’s Culture of Improvement working paper shows the...

Our Working Paper on School Culture and Working Conditions

by Matthew | 24 Feb, 2021 | 2021, Research

The topic of school culture and working conditions has been an increasingly popular one in discussions between school leaders. Over the past few months we (David Weston, Bethan Hindley and Maria Cunningham) have been working on pulling together findings from across...