With middle leaders having a clear and increasing role in driving CPD, Maria Cunningham outlines eight ways to be a more developmental middle leader

Middle leaders often now have an explicit role around professional learning and take on increasing responsibility for the CPD of their department or teams.
At the Teacher Development Trust, a national charity for effective professional development in schools, we’re in a fortunate position to visit schools and colleges across the UK that are carrying out great practice when it comes to CPD.

We’ve been able to see first-hand that where senior leadership evenly distributes the oversight of professional learning, a greater number of staff feel supported to give input into CPD and the quality and culture for this is more likely to flourish.

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