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CPDL National Standards

The Department for Education (DfE) in England approved a groundbreaking new Standard for Teachers Continuing Professional Development in 2016. Here you find various tools and resources CUREE has created to help schools and others meet those Standards

Embedding Learning Through the Arts in the Curriculum: Lessons from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Teacher Development Fund Pilot Evaluation

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The session evaluated CUREE's work with the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. The foundation wanted to investigate how the arts can be used to improve people's education. We evaluated the six projects that were implemented by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and looked into what lessons can be learnt from the teacher development fund pilot evaluation.  

Research and Evidence Based Capacity Building in Disadvantaged Communities

Research and Evidence Based Capacity Building in Disadvantaged Communities:

Lessons from research and from R&D in Blackpool and North Wales

Presentation by Philippa Cordingley to the 2017 National ResearchEd event at Chobham Academy Stratford

The session explored the key building blocks for building momentum in school improvement through the lens of a year of research and evidence based development work in Blackpool secondary schools and across schools in North Wales drawing on interim impact reports. It focussed on issues such as understanding both capacity and barriers in depth, phasing, co-construction, scaffolding and harnessing the contributions of various stakeholders

 

If you want access to the presentation please email paige.johns@curee.co.uk

How to choose the right source for your sources

TES, CPDCUREE CEO Philippa Cordingley's first column in a new fortnightly series aimed at helping teachers to become more research informed has just been published in the TES. TES subscribers can read the full article here (england.magazine.tes.com), and Twitter has already been abuzz! 

The article includes links to a number of useful websites hosting accessible research to help grow colleagues' capacity for research and evidence-informed practice, and you can find a helpful summary of these below:

What Causes G&T Students to Underachieve

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Inside Information is a publication produced by the NTRP that brings together current practitioner research themed along a particular area. Each article features a concise description of the research, interviews with the researchers, suggestions on how to put the findings into practice in your own work, and links to further useful information. You can find out more, and read past editions, here.

The author of this article, Ben Rule, set out to investigate the causes of underachievement by asking G&T students from Year 10 to work as peer coaches with 15 underachieving Year 8 G&T students. The coaches helped Ben to identify the causes of under achievement through collecting interview and questionnaire data.

Philippa Cordingley at the SSAT Teaching Schools Conference

My session at the forthcoming SSAT conference aims to help school leaders, teachers and CPD facilitators use the new Standard for CPD to create a dynamic and coherent environment for continuing professional development and learning. We will be concentrating on Ofsted’s frequently repeated challenge to schools to evaluate the impact of CPD more effectively; and looking at ways of doing this that also enhance the quality of the process for teachers and for their pupils.

Here’s a mini blog that I hope will tempt you to join us!

Beyond Data: Gaining and Sustaining Momentum for School Improvement

Leaders need a holistic view of their school if they are to set priorities that will truly accelerate learning for all of their pupils and especially for the most vulnerable, says Philippa Cordingley

Beyond Data

As a school leader you have lots of data and information at your disposal. But new research exploring what helps schools to build momentum and become exceptional suggests that leaders who want to accelerate progress need more than data: they need a holistic, evidence-based, bird’s-eye view of their school, organised around questions capable of firing everyone’s commitment and imagination.