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Register to access our free Festival of Learning CPD webinars

Opt into powerful, industry-led CPD and choose your own pathway, supporting your own professional growth. Once registered, access recordings at a time, place, and pace that suits you in your free BlueSky career portfolio and retain access beyond January when you create a CPD record.

Created to support: Trainee and early-career teachers, mentors, professional tutors and all those involved in early-career teacher support. Registration is open to all.

Our event schedule

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Outlook is more than an email app… with Warren Carratt

A brief exploration of mastering one’s own mind-set.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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Social and Emotional Learning – What is it and why it matters for every teacher with Jean Gross CBE

In this workshop, Jean will explore the core social and emotional skills children need for behaviour, learning and wellbeing – and simple classroom strategies to develop them.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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Resilience & Robustness: Curriculum in the time of Covid-19 with Steve Rollett

Schools had to adapt quickly in spring 2020 in response to Covid-19 and did so with great resilience. However, with the pandemic staying with us for longer than many people had anticipated, this session explores what might be required in order to maintain curriculum continuity over the long term.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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Support for New Teachers – Why it Matters with Professor Samantha Twiselton

Sam will explore an overview of research and policy developments focused on the importance of early-career teacher support and development, including information on the newly published DfE ITT Core Content Framework for ITT and how this is designed to support teacher recruitment, retention and development.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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How to build motivation for learning with Peps Mccrea

Explore what the science of motivation tells us about what we can do to boost pupil attention and effort in our lessons.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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Taking a break - Desk Yoga with Elena Fulton

Mindful stretch breaks are extremely important for people whose jobs require them to sit at a desk or to stand in a classroom for long hours, which may result in back or neck pain, tight and sore legs, and shoulders stiffness. Elena will take you through a simple and fun 30 minutes class to make you feel invigorated, happier, and more supple.

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Free 20+ min webinar

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The essential elements of planning and teaching effective lessons with Professor Rob Coe

The first few years of teaching can be overwhelming: there is so much to master that seems complex, challenging and important. New teachers have to focus on a small number of things that will have the most impact, but what does research identify as the highest-leverage skills, practices and knowledge?

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How to Gain the Recognition You Deserve with Fran Jones

Professional Development, even in the pandemic counts - ensure you get recognition for the work you have done on professional learning and capture the key milestones in your personal and professional development. Learn about 3 habits you need to grow to ensure you get the recognition you deserve.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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Meditation on the natural breath with Iris Gudsteinsdottir

Meditation can be described as a training of the mental muscle, it has been around for millennia and served many to quiet the mind, increase focus, calm and clarity. There are various techniques available and I will be guiding you through a concentration-based technique where the object of concentration is the natural breath. Please have a chair available and, if possible, a rolled-up blanket or a cushion. All levels are welcome.

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Free 20+ min webinar

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Mindfulness with Iris Gudsteinsdottir

Through mindfulness practices we can train our awareness so that we can become more present in each passing moment of our lives and move away from living on autopilot. We can practice turning inwards to our felt sense in the physical body and observe our feelings and thoughts whilst developing and maintaining a non-judgmental and compassionate attitude. I will be guiding you through a short standing and sitting mindfulness practice, please have a chair or comfortable seat available. All levels welcome.

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Free 20+ min webinar

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Pastoral Care and Remote Learning

The webinar will explore what are the pastoral needs of learners during remote learning, when they will not have the same access to face to face learning activities. It will also consider the lessons that can be learnt about the importance of pastoral care, as part of a young person’s education, from the experience of remote learning

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Free 30+ min webinar

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Near or far - making every minute count: high quality teacher talk

Within this session we will explore Barak Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction. This will be an opportunity to grapple with the research-based strategies that ‘all teachers should know’.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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Looking backwards. How to learn to stop worrying and love planning

This session will revisit the fundamentals of lesson planning and unpick how to plan more effectively. Planning backwards for both primary and secondary NQTs is the model for this session.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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Parents as Partners

This workshop aims to help every teacher consider how to form more effective partnerships with parents, reflecting on the positive impact of parental engagement on the child, school and even the parent themselves.

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Free 30+ min recorded workshop

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Behaviour and engagement in the socially distanced classroom

This session will look at the basics of behaviour management in terms of effective relationships as well as tackle some of the issues that social distancing has brought.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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What do we mean when we say we have high expectations for students?

Melanie Saunders, Chief Education Adviser for HPL, explores the difference between words and actions. During this school year, a year like no other, it's a perfect time to reflect on our expectations of students in the year to come.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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The Trust Dividend – the benefits of working in a group of schools

Leora will explore the myths and facts about working in a multi-academy trust which creates the conditions for deep and purposeful collaboration. The trust structure, at its best, can support an early career teacher to build professional expertise.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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Effective Assessment – Closing Learning Gaps

In this session, we will look at what evidence tells us about the use of assessment in effective teaching. We will look at the importance of retrieval practice and feedback, and explore ways in which assessment can be used to assess and help close learning gaps.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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Mindfulness Tools For All

Did you know that mindfulness does not mean sitting down and meditating? Did you know it can be a practical tool to help you deal with the stresses of daily life?

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Free 30+ min webinar

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Building your resourcefulness in unprecedented times

Being able to maintain our own personal resourcefulness when we need it the most is a core capability for classroom teachers and school leaders alike.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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Finding my voice - Musharaf Asghar Keynote

Ever since Musharaf's story was first told on the EMMY Award winning series Educating Yorkshire, he has devoted his years to spreading awareness about stammering and motivating others. Register now and we will email you once we have the live session date!

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Free 30+ min webinar

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