• Teaching - you will learn how to develop teachers at all levels in your school, building strong systems that underpin their professional development.
• Designing professional development - you will strengthen your ability to design effective CPD that makes a genuine difference to pupil outcomes.
• Delivering effective professional development - you will deepen your knowledge of the best ways to develop models of professional development and dialogue that inspires teachers to become the experts that their pupils need.
• Implementation - you will learn how to implement change successfully within your context by understanding the stages of implementation and applying them with the support of your facilitators and colleagues.

Our participants have outlined many benefits to studying for an NPQLTD. Overall, they outline how the programme has given them professional confidence, time and space to reflect on themselves and the kind of leader they want to become and increased knowledge in their chosen area of study.

You will be able to:

• Develop the skills, confidence and knowledge to implement new professional development initiatives successfully through a supported implementation project.
• Understand the key principles of how to design and deliver effective professional development programmes.
• Appreciate the value of sharing ideas, best practice and have thoughts and current practice challenged in a professionally safe space.
• Learn how to think and plan in a structured way and apply that learning in your own school context.
• Reflect on the importance of how important effective professional development is to student attainment.
• Access research and materials and have many opportunities to discuss a variety of professional development approaches and models with other teachers.

We know that our children and young people need teachers who are committed to their education and are confident learners themselves. Our programmes have been developed with teachers and leaders to:

• Create professionally confident teachers and leaders.
• Grow the next generation of leaders with the skills and knowledge to use the evidence-base for the benefit of their children and young people.
• Retain the best teachers who are excellent, collaborative role models for their schools and communities.
• Inspire leaders who can harness the power of rich learning environments for their children and young people no matter the current circumstances.

• 12 month programme.
• Approx 1 hour per week of independent study.
• Six in-person events.
• The only assessment is a 1500 word response to a case study at the end of your 12-month programme.
• Attendance at in-person sessions and engagement with course materials is required to qualify for the final assessment.

Anyone working in a school, in early years or in childcare can register for an NPQ. You will need a TRN (teacher registration number). If you are not a teacher, the DfE registration process will guide you through how to request one. If you are working in early years or child care you will need the Ofsted unique reference number (URN) of your setting.

Not everyone will be entitled to full funding. Please see the section below for details.

FREE for all state schools in England in 2023/2024 

Currently the DfE are funding all NPQ's for academic year 2023/24 for participants from all state schools in England.  However, your school will incur costs in covering your absence so that you can attend in-person events.  Teachers from Independent schools are welcome to apply, but will need to self fund.

Full funding is available for all NPQs for teachers and leaders employed by:

• state-funded schools
• state-funded 16 to 19 organisations
• independent special schools
• virtual schools (organisations run by local authorities that support the education of children in care)
• hospital schools
• young offender institutions

Additional funding available for small schools 

Targeted support funding is available for some schools. This money goes directly to schools to support participants to do an NPQ. It’s not available for the early headship coaching offer.

• State-funded primary schools with 1 to 150 pupils: Your school will receive a grant payment of £800 for each teacher or leader you employ who starts an NPQ in the 2023 to 2024 academic year.
• State-funded primary schools with more than 150 pupils: Your school will receive a grant payment of £200 for each teacher or leader you employ who starts an NPQ in the 2023 to 2024 academic year.
• State-funded secondary schools with 1 to 600 pupils: Your school will receive a grant payment of £200 for each teacher or leader you employ who starts an NPQ in the 2023 to 2024 academic year.

Please note that funding is only available for each teacher, for each NPQ once i.e. the same teacher cannot repeat the same NPQ and be funded twice.