If you're not sure which pack would be most helpful, here are some recommendations.
Not currently involved in extended CPD?
If you currently do not have much systematic planning of and support for CPD going on in school (other than one day INSET sessions) but have access to colleagues with an interest in learning at any age or stage we would suggested that one great place to start is Letting Go. This pack is designed to increase colleagues’ skills in coaching. Powerful as it is to be coached there is now extensive evidence suggesting that learning to be a coach is even more powerful than being coached in extending professionals learning and teaching skills.
Not currently extensively involved in coaching and mentoring but interested in Leadership?
The '
Joining Up pack' will help provide clarity on how to link performance management and pupil learning through mentoring and/or coaching.
Based at a school with a relatively high staff turnover?
The '
Pulling Through' pack is a good starting place for schools with lots of new recruits and/ or NQTs because of the emphasis on mentoring for induction, introducing colleagues to a new culture and establishing a positive ethos around asking for and providing specialist expertise and information.
Already doing some mentoring and coaching?
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Taking Hold'
is a great starting point if you are already involved with coaching or Doubling Up if you have extensive mentoring systems e.g. for NQTs. These packs will help to build the professional learning muscles of all the teachers in your school increasing their appetite for professional learning organised around their work and their skills in making the most of the opportunities on offer.
Interested in building bottom up support for CPD and co-coaching?
The '
Pulling Together' pack offers a really positive and practical way of building mutual confidence, support and commitment to systematic and sustained professional learning by focusing on how to how to recognise the need for specialist support and to balance support and challenge within reciprocal coaching relationships.
Interested in taking coaching forward in your school?
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Taking hold' focuses on the professional learners in a coaching relationship & Letting go focuses on what coaches can do to enhance the effectiveness of coaching.
Interested in taking mentoring forward in your school?
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Doubling Up' focuses on the professional learners in a mentoring relationship & Pulling Through focuses on what mentors can do to enhance the effectiveness of mentoring.
Interested in developing mentoring and coaching in your school at a whole-school level?
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Joining Up' focuses on what CPD Leaders can do to mentoring and coaching systematic across the whole school.
