The paper, Leveraging trust capacity to deliver effective professional development, was launched by the Confederation of School Trusts at its School Improvement Conference in Birmingham.
Developed with Josh Goodrich and Claire Hill from training specialists Steplab, the paper examines the barriers to effective professional development and how school trusts can overcome them.
Steplab Chief Executive Josh Goodrich said: "There is a strong case for trust leaders to prioritise high quality teacher learning as a mechanism for school improvement. To do so, leaders require an understanding of the barriers to teacher learning and how to overcome them. This paper outlines why coaching may be the best solution to overcoming the barriers to teacher learning."
CST Deputy Chief Executive and conference chair Steve Rollett said: "This paper is an important contribution to school trusts' work to support the development of effective teaching. Across the conference speakers and delegates have shared a wealth of useful and practical information that can help their trusts – together this community is building knowledge about trust-led school improvement."
The conference saw more than 150 trust leaders from across the country hear from a range of school improvement experts and discuss on the ground examples of successful improvement strategies.
The event is an extension of CST's online Directors of Improvement professional community, which offers regular webinars and a digital networking site and is included as part of a trust's membership of CST.
