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Great teaching changes lives. 

At TDT, we’re leading a movement to ensure every teacher has access to the world-class development they need to be the best they can be. By supporting our work, you’ll join funders and partners committed to transforming education for generations to come.

Great teaching is the most important lever schools have to improve outcomes for their pupils.

Your support helps us ensure all teachers have access to meaningful continuous professional development, so that they stay in our schools and thrive.

The single biggest factor in helping children succeed is great teaching, and great teaching depends on high-quality professional development. That’s where we come in.

Teacher Development Trust is the UK’s national charity for effective professional development in schools. We work with school leaders, teachers, researchers and policymakers to help ensure that, ultimately, every child benefits from consistently excellent teaching.

Your support helps us to: ​

Deliver evidence-led training and leadership programmes that measurably improve educational outcomes

Conduct and share cutting-edge research into what really drives up standards in classrooms

Build a national movement for excellent professional development, so teachers can thrive and pupils can succeed.

"Working with TDT has allowed us to pinpoint where our focus needs to be. If you can get a high quality CPD offering that your staff engage with, you'll get better buy in from staff.

Students are happier because they're getting a better offer in the classroom and then as a result, the outcomes for those students will be better as well.

Everyone has improved, all as a result of better quality planning and CPD in school"

Leo Kelly, Assistant Headteacher, Cheltenham Bournside School

Ways to support

Whether you are an interested individual or represent a trust or foundation, there are a number of ways you can get involved and support our mission:  

Strategic Partnerships

Partner with us to develop major research and delivery programmes.

Targeted Grants

Support research or programme delivery in a particular region, subject area, target group of schools or thematic area (eg. STEM, Early Years, SEND). 

Core Funding

Invest in our capacity to deliver systemic long term change.

With your support, we can drive the sustainable improvements in education that our country so urgently needs.

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"We've been given the Gold standard by TDT. It was a very, very thorough evaluation and that makes me feel happy we're doing what's right and also allows the headteacher to see things are going well.

Our exam results have gone up, our teacher retention has gone up, my own teaching has improved as well."

Paul Lockyer, Head of Coaching at Cheltenham Bournside

21st October, London, EC2Y 5JU

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.