Our mission

Great teachers change student lives.

We want every teacher to have access to PD that really works.

We do what matters most to achieve this.

Two teachers teachers practicing effective coaching and modelling

We'll unpack what our mission means to us, sentence-by-sentence:

Summary

  • Some PD has a sizable positive effect on teaching and learning.
  • However, much of the PD in which teachers have participated up until recently likely had no effect.
  • School leaders therefore need to carefully allocate their PD budgets to ensure that PD results in improved teaching and learning.
  • Instructional coaching is one effective form of PD.
  • PD incorporating mechanisms from the EEF review of effective PD is more likely to be effective. For example, augmenting PD with modelling is likely to improve its impact.
  • We, we know that effective implementation is the final piece in the puzzle, so we focus hard on supporting schools to implement effectively.