Gareth Conyard, Author at Teacher Development Trust

A Bright Future for TDT

by Gareth Conyard | 7 Oct, 2024 | 2024, Media, News, NPQs, Press Release

In his seminal book of the same name, Simon Sinek exhorts us all to ‘start with why’ – to understand your purpose, your reason for existing – before you decide anything else. Perhaps inevitably, with the change in government, a change in leadership here...

Smart, Heart, Humble: Developing meaningful education policy during a General Election campaign

by Gareth Conyard | 23 May, 2024 | 2024, News, Opinion

So the starting gun has been fired and the race has begun. The next six weeks will see leading figures in all parties try to set out their stalls and we should expect that education will be a major area of policy to be discussed. What should we hope for? It is...

TDT Response to the Education Select Committee Report: Teacher Recruitment, Training & Retention

by Gareth Conyard | 17 May, 2024 | 2024, News, Teacher recruitment, Teacher retention

TDT welcomes today’s publication of the Education Select Committee report on teacher recruitment and retention. Alongside Labour’s announcement yesterday to increase the number of teachers entering the profession, we are glad to see politicians of all political...

CPD Entitlement for Teachers: Have Your Say!

by Gareth Conyard | 5 Oct, 2023 | Expert Group

Teachers, leaders – we need your help! The best available evidence indicates that great teaching is THE most important lever schools have to improve outcomes for all pupils, regardless of background, challenge or need. Our core charitable mission here at TDT...

Creating a CPD Entitlement that works: TDT to launch an expert group

by Gareth Conyard | 8 Aug, 2023 | 2023, Press Release

Teaching is in a crisis of morale, recruitment and retention, so policy ideas to try and tackle this are particularly important. Amongst a number of policies announced by the Labour Party recently, the one that caught our eye here at the TDT was the plan for a CPD...

A Bright Future for TDT

Smart, Heart, Humble: Developing meaningful education policy during a General Election campaign

TDT Response to the Education Select Committee Report: Teacher Recruitment, Training & Retention

CPD Entitlement for Teachers: Have Your Say!

Creating a CPD Entitlement that works: TDT to launch an expert group

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