School improvement professional community

Helping trusts work at scale to support teaching and learning.

The school improvement professional community is a unique knowledge development network for directors of improvement, or equivalent roles, in school trusts.

The professional community provides support and development opportunities at a time of unprecedented change, through a blend of expert input on key improvement, facilitated discussion and networking.

It is intended to build our knowledge and understanding of improvement across a group of schools and codify the best that is being thought and done in our sector. The community is closely linked with our School Improvement Hub, which researches and highlights good practice in trusts.

We aim to provide support and development opportunities, through a blend of expert input on key practice challenges, facilitated discussion, and networking.

The community offers a safe and supportive environment in which to develop your understanding of school improvement at scale, through:

Termly online community meetings featuring expert voices
Topical webinars on emerging issues
Our community site, which connects you with trust leaders across the country through a dedicated website and mobile apps
Community resources and blogs from our members and partners
Priority access to our annual in-person CST School Improvement Conference

Our professional communities are an integral part of CST membership, and taking part is open to all staff and governance volunteers of member trusts.

How to join

If you already have a MyCST login

If you are already registered for MyCST, CST's personal registration for employees and governance volunteers at member trusts, you can add professional communities to your account using our community registration form.

If you are not yet registered for MyCST

MyCST is CST's personal regisration for employees and governance volunteers at member trusts. Registration unlocks your access to member benefits, include exclusive resource on this website, our briefing emails, and our professional communities.

If your trust is a CST member you can sign up using our MyCST registration form.