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But making your professional learning programmes coherent and strategic doesn’t just satisfy inspectors. Schools with coherent CPD programmes see higher-quality teaching, a stronger school culture, increased retention and a more intentional focus on school improvement.
In this module, you’ll work through what coherence actually means, how to build it in your specific context, and what practical shifts could make your CPD efforts work together rather than compete for energy and time.
At the Teacher Development Trust, we’ve had over a decade of experience working with over 500 schools, supporting teachers and leaders to improve their confidence, skills and expertise in professional development. We help leaders invest their CPD resources wisely.
In a 90 minute session designed to fit into PPA time, we’ll give you the basic tools to be able to build your own coherent CPD plan through:
Once you register for our CPD hub and purchase the module, you can work through it at your own pace. The complete module takes 90 minutes and is designed to fit into PPA time, but you can pause and return whenever it suits you. You’ll have access to your progress and can download your certificate when you finish. Many leaders study it alongside their leadership team or use it to prepare for governance conversations about professional learning.
Senior leaders with responsibility for professional learning: If you’re thinking about how to develop a more coherent approach, or want to clarify the logic of what you’re already doing.
Middle leaders (heads of department, heads of year, SENDCos): If you want to explore how your team’s professional learning might feel more aligned and strategic.
Governors: If you want to understand what coherence looks like so that you can engage confidently in conversations about professional learning and its impact
This module provides foundational thinking. It works on its own, but also works well as preparation for deeper work; whether that’s exploring evaluation, building coaching into your approach, or a full diagnostic review of your professional learning.
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Built on Experience
We’re focused on one thing: helping school leaders understand their CPD deeply and invest wisely in what actually works.
We believe in partnership. We believe in evidence. We believe in the humility to keep learning and adapt. We’ve worked with schools and we understand the complexity and the constraints. We’re not external consultants parachuting in with a template. We’re partners who know what it takes to actually change practice.
When leaders do this work well, when they understand their CPD and invest strategically in what works, schools transform. That’s what drives us.
All Online Learning modules are intended for individual rather than cross-school or trust use. Any certificates of completion will be in the name of the Hub account holder.
The Teacher Development Trust’s insights on what makes great CPD are informed through our close work with education research, as well as our experience of working with over 500 schools on building stronger professional development programmes through the 7 Domains of People-Powered School Improvement
Each module is also shaped by the influential practice of school leaders working in education today, as seen in our case studies.
Join us to explore how leaders can tap into the power of great CPD and create cultures of professional growth that inspire joy and agency.
A one-day collaborative conference bringing together anyone interested in making staff development in education count.