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At the heart of our offering to schools is a range of teacher and expert lead CPDL for our schools to access. We are committed ensuring our work is research informed and rooted in school practice and led by SLEs and other system leaders who are quality assured by the alliance. We want our CPDL to be collaborative where possible and to provide our staff with the key learning experiences they need to ensure they are effective in their roles.
We are committed to providing our teachers and leaders with individual Career Plans and access to high quality coaching conversations to ensure they are accessing the CPDL they need to support their learning. All of our CPDL is designed based upon the needs of our staff, the needs of their pupils and our wider school improvement priorities.
Once we have a clear view of what our CPDL needs are we begin to build our content. At the core of our offer each year schools can expect to access:
Access to our CPDL is prioritised for our member schools, but some things are available for all schools in the area to access. Please get in touch if you have a query about any of our specific training opportunities.
If you would like to ask us about our CPDL then please get in touch at info@affinitytsa.co.uk
We forward plan the majority of our CPDL and publish this within our TSA Brochure which can found here
(Interactive document or download – will be pdf)
Additionally, we organise some events within the year and which schools can book onto please see these adverts below.
(this will be similar to https://www.letslearn.org.uk/cpd-and-training/ )
All of our bookings are made through a 3rd party website called bookwhen. It is really easy to use and you can visit the site to book you place by visiting https://bookwhen.com/affinitytsa
If you have problems with the book when site then please contact our office team on 0116 318 4066
Affinity TSA is a core partner of Inspiring Leaders a license holder for the National Professional Qualifications in school leadership. All member schools benefit from discounted access to the following:
Details about these programmes and the work of Inspiring Leaders can be found by clicking here.
Although the teacher workforce as a whole is gradually becoming more diverse, progress towards greater diversity at leadership levels remains especially slow. Despite their dominance of the school workforce overall, for example women are less likely to become Headteachers than their male counterparts, especially in the secondary phase. BME teachers, too, are underrepresented at all levels of school leadership.
The Equality and Diversity Fund exists to close these gaps, making the best use of all available leadership talent in the workforce.
Affinity TSA has successfully accessed funding to run 3 projects to enable support for marginalized groups to access leadership development training. We offer the following 3 projects and below is a description of who they are for:
Leadership Now – for Maternity Support
Step Ahead – Moving into Headship
BAME Leadership Support Programme
We work alongside a number of partner groups in the area who offer great CPDL for staff which includes:
