Professional Development
Develop your skills through innovative best practice and the latest research with our training courses and events, designed to help you take action to improve literacy outcomes.
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CPD and workshops to help primary teachers and leaders develop provision and improve literacy outcomes.Learn more about Primary training.
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CPD and workshops for leaders, teachers and subject specialists across the curriculum to develop a whole-school approach to literacyLearn more about Secondary training.
Our conferences
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Focusing on language acquisition in the first 1001 days, our annual conference is a cross-sector summit of thought leadership and best practice,Learn more about Talk To Your Baby: Early Years Conference.
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Our primary conferences celebrate best practice and explore the issues most significant to primary practitioners.Learn more about Primary conferences.
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Our secondary conferences celebrate best practice and explore the issues most significant to secondary practitioners.Learn more about Secondary conferences and events.
"There is no significant literacy development in the classroom without substantial professional development in the staffroom."
Stephen Tierney (2020) Read All About It: Why reading is key to GCSE success, GL Assessment
Why choose us for CPD?
- Our courses are fully aligned with the DfE standards for teachers' professional development.
- Our training offers teachers and literacy leaders a chance to immerse themselves in enquiry, questioning and experimentation as well as providing innovative strategies and practical ideas to support literacy.
- We offer both scheduled live online events, and group or whole-school training on request.
- Guidance from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) shows that professional development should be a priority for pupil premium spending - our courses focus on areas that most often create barriers for disadvantaged students.
"Thanks for an informative day - I'm going away with inspiration for my own practice and whole-school CPD."
Upcoming training and events
Discover scheduled dates and booking information for CPD and conferences including early years CPD taking place in the coming months.
Success stories
Hear from teachers about how our courses have helped them in the classroom.
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Sandy Hill, Year 6 teacher at an international school in Zurich, attended our Reading for Pleasure CPD and shares how she's using what she learned in the classroom.Learn more about Our Reading for Pleasure CPD helps international students learn to love reading.
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Participants at our Reading for Pleasure training reflect on the success of their project.Learn more about Haywood Academy roll out teaching whole texts to all of Key Stage 3.
