OUR AIMS

• To help ensure all children have every opportunity to receive the very best educational experience possible in a culture of aspiration, pride, independence, and expertise.
• To help support the central role schools have in their communities.
• To facilitate meaningful collaboration across schools, alliances and MATs within the city, regionally and nationally.
• To attract and facilitate access to exceptional practitioners, leaders of education and academics.
• To provide evidence informed professional development at all stages of a career from trainees to CEOs
• To help ensure expertise is developed in response to citywide and national needs, using evidence to inform a purposeful, effective approach.
• To co-ordinate collaborative projects drawing together academic expertise, practitioner experience and ‘craft knowledge’ to promote and model a cultural shift in professional development.
• To work alongside the Regional Teaching School Council, neighboring Teaching School Alliances, Stoke-on-Trent Research School, Stoke-on-Trent Local Authority, and the Regional School Commissioners office to ensure high-impact, sustainable school improvement.
• To recruit, train and retain the very best of the next generation of teachers and leaders.

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