Our Trust-Wide Development Days provide an important opportunity to bring together colleagues across our Trust to learn, develop and share best practice together.
What is a Trust-Wide Development Day?
Our biannual Trust-Wide Development Days bring digital collaboration to the forefront of CPD. Across our Trust, our colleagues hold a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience. Meeting online allows them to share this expertise with other colleagues across our academies, providing a space for knowledge sharing, discussion, feedback, and of course, training.
What Happens on a Trust-Wide Development Day?
Keynote
A keynote speech is an opportunity to bring our Trust together as a family of academies by discussing our shared values and achievements.
Context-Specific Sessions
We provide an opportunity for colleagues to split up into multiple sessions that are tied to the theme of the PD day, but targeted to specialised groups of staff. Teachers, leaders and support staff will all recieve the same information in a different way that is targeted to the context of their role.
Academy-Directed Training
Each PD day offers the chance for Principals to direct proessional learning within their academies, allowing them to adress localised training needs.
Opportunities for Support Staff
Though pedagogy is a staple of any school development day, we strive to ensure that all support staff in our Trust also have access to valuable training and development opportunities. These colleagues are provided a menu of PD activities from which they can choose the most relevant knowledge for their role.
Previous PD day activities for Supporting and Enabling Education Colleagues have included:
- Learning Management System (LMS) training
- Customer service training
- Digital Literacy development
- Website Content Management System (CMS) demonstration
- Marketing & design training
Previous Trust-Wide PD Days
Introducing Pedagogical Principles
This PD day marked the launch of our Pedagogical Principles, ten defining ideas that encompass our approach to education. Beginning with an introduction from Institute Director Cat Rushton- the what, why and how of Pedagogical Principles- colleagues went on to engage in role-specific training and discussion to help them understand how best to apply the Principles in their own context.
Leaning Into the Challenge
At this PD day, we launched our four colleague designations- Leading, Delivering, Enabling and Supporting Education colleagues. These categories broadly describe the roles of all staff in working toward our common goal: providing transformative education. They also help us to guide our colleagues to relevant training opportunities, which was reflected in the broader-than-ever range of PD activitiies for support staff on this PD day.
This PD day’s theme was Leaning Into the Challenge– reflecting on our Big Moves (areas of priority for development) and professional behaviours.
Building Culture Together
At this PD day, we adressed our shared culture priorities, with a valuable opportunity to reflect on the tangible progress made across our academies. Looking at our shared ATT Ways, we asked schools to share their successes with Morning Meetings, Transitions, and Warm/Strict Classrooms. The resulting compilation is an inspiring demonstration of the power of collaboration in education:
