by Michelle | 19 Mar, 2024 | 2024, CPD, Lead Provider, NPQs, Ofsted, Outstanding, Professional Development
Teacher Development Trust (TDT) is England’s national charity for effective professional development in schools, colleges and early years settings. We help give leaders the clarity, confidence and capacity to build and lead cultures of expertise in schools and...
by Faye Lawlor | 29 Feb, 2024 | 2024, CPD, Expert Group, Leadership, Opinion, Press Release, Research, Teacher wellbeing
Read full report The teaching profession is up against it at the moment. It faces challenges around recruitment and retention, restrictions on funding, and too often feels a lack of trust in its ability to educate children and young people. As an organisation, we know...
by Hazel Jeffs | 24 Mar, 2025 | News
With recruitment and retention at the top of everyone’s list, the need for high-quality continuing professional development (CPD) to support teachers to stay in the profession and thrive has never been greater. So TDT set itself a challenge last year. We were...
by Hazel Jeffs | 19 Mar, 2025 | Expert Group, Teacher recruitment, Teacher retention, Teachers
On Monday 24th February 2025, TDT convened an expert working party of education professionals from across the country. The goal? To explore and define the uniqueness of teacher learning. It was a privilege to be part of rich initial discussions that revealed critical...
by Hazel Jeffs | 15 Nov, 2024 | 2024, Expertise
Guest post from Shane Leaning, an international school organisational coach and podcaster learning with teachers and leaders across the globe. It’s been a year of change. Change in politics, changes in social discourse, changes in staffing in our school and dare...
by Hazel Jeffs | 22 Oct, 2024 | 2024, Events
A new annual event for the education sector We are delighted to announce that next April will see the delivery of the inaugural David Monis-Weston lecture. This annual lecture will see the Teacher Development Trust invite the most exciting and challenging thinkers...
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...
by Hazel Jeffs | 26 Sep, 2024 | 2024, CPD, Teachers
After coming across TDT in her first year as a Deputy Headteacher, Collette was empowered to make a positive impact at her school through her learnings on the CPD Leadership course. Before the Course Collette Wade had recently started her role as the deputy head of...
by admin | 5 Sep, 2024 | Advice, Media, Newsletter, Opinion, September 2013
David Weston, Chief Executive of Teacher Development Trust, explains the good and the bad of CPD. This article first appeared in the TES and can be found here. Is your professional development beset by superficiality or gluttony? Repent now and focus on what really...
by Ariana Wells | 27 Aug, 2024 | 2023, NPQLL
Do you have responsibility for whole-school literacy? Or you may aspire to be a senior leader and have whole-school responsibilities. Perhaps you’re passionate about literacy but not leading on it just yet. TDT’s Partnerships and Communications Manager, Ariana...
by Ariana Wells | 15 Aug, 2024 | 2024, Early Years Education, NPQEYL, Professional Development, Uncategorized
In the second part of this blog, reflecting on the importance of the first five years, Mandy Cuttler, Head of Pedagogy, Learning and Development, London Early Years Foundation (LEYF)/London Institute of Early Years shares how high quality CPD leadership in Early Years...
by Ariana Wells | 1 Aug, 2024 | 2024, AI, Events
Louise Worgan, Curriculum Designer at TDT, updates on her involvement in the exciting development and testing of Teacherverse.ai. The Teacherverse is an AI-powered training tool that hones teachers’ skills through immersive, role-playing scenarios. AI is certainly a...
