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Put the New Standard For Teachers' Professional Development to use with CUREE CPD

To support the recently published New Standard for Teachers' Professional Development, CUREE are proud to announce a series of professional development opportunities deeply rooted in leading evidence and CUREE’s extensive expertise.

Following on from launch event workshops in the West Midlands and London with members of the expert panel that helped design the New Standard, these exciting programmes will help colleagues make effective use of the New Standard and further promote its contributions to school improvement.

Increase the Impact of Your CPD on Staff and Pupil Learning

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!

Possibility Thinking: Reimagining the Future of Further Education and Skills

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These essays are deliberately optimistic and each responds to a ‘what if’ question, with authors being invited to respond with deliberate idealism about the future possibilities. The collection has not been designed with the intention of providing a single narrative, but rather to open up new trains of thought, to offer provocations and challenges, and it covers divergent themes and ideas. We have focused on what the sector can do for itself, mindful of the policy context, but occasionally identifying ways that policy might enable, rather than constrain, sectoral innovation and public value

About the authors 2

Acknowledgements 4

Foreword - Dame Ruth Silver 5

Introduction - What if the further education and skills sector got a little more optimistic? - Mark Londesborough 7

Come Say Hello!

There are plenty of opportunities to get involved with our exciting work in the coming months, be it face-to-face at any of the conferences we're attending or by signing up to our new programme of CPD set to begin this Autumn!

Teacher enquiry is the key to learning

Teacher Enquiry is the Key to Learning

How can busy FE practitioners build and share research in their day to day work? Making a difference through small, shared steps.

Philippa Cordingley and Anne Groll have written a research digest on teacher enquiry that has been published in InTuition; the Institiute for Learning's professional journal written for teachers and trainers across further education (FE) and skills to support them in their practice throughout their career.