Insights

Embedding Professional Growth into the DNA of School Improvement

When professional development is collaborative, ongoing, and aligned to school priorities, it drives improvement across the board. Discover how coaching, lesson visits, and platforms like SchooliP can embed growth into your school’s culture, and make improvement everyone’s responsibility.

Creating a Culture Where Teachers Ask for Lesson Observations

Lesson observations shouldn’t feel like a performance. Discover how schools can create a culture where staff request feedback, reframing visits as shared learning opportunities that build trust, confidence, and professional growth.

Smarter Learning Walks: From Observation to Strategic Action

Learning walks have long been a valuable tool for observing classroom practice, but without a clear structure, they can fail to drive meaningful change. In this insight, we explore how centralising and aligning learning walk evidence with teaching standards and CPD plans can help schools move from surface-level feedback to deeper, strategic impact. We also look at how structured data collection lays the foundation for future innovation, including the use of AI in education.

Unified Growth: The Benefits of Consistency Across a Multi-Academy Trust

In a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT), consistency and alignment are key for success across the trust. When you align processes, all schools within your MAT can grow and develop as part of a cohesive unit which will lead to improved outcomes for both staff and students.

A New Era for Teacher Appraisal in Schools

Education is changing, fast. With the removal of mandatory Performance-Related Pay (PRP) for teachers in England, schools now have the freedom to redesign how they approach appraisal and professional development. Learn how to best approach these changes with top tips from the TDT and how SchooliP can support this shift.

Mergers, MATs, and Moving Parts: Navigating System Change in Growing Trusts

As the landscape of multi-academy trusts (MATs) continues to shift, one trend is becoming increasingly clear: consolidation. Where we once saw small, standalone trusts of six or seven schools, we’re now seeing a growing number of larger organisations, often the result of two or more smaller MATs merging. These new, larger trusts, some now managing 15 or more schools, are reshaping the way improvement, performance, and systems are managed across education.