A summary of key recommendations from IRIS Connect's "Recruit, train, develop, retain" report. The report addresses the need to invest in professional learning to solve the teacher recruitment and retention crisis and provides advice for teachers, schools and the wider system.

1. Recruit,
Train,
Develop,
Retain.#ShapingCPD Shaping the future of CPD report summary

2. The key messages that emerged from
the conference were that we need to:
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Understand and resolve teacher retention in order to solve the recruitment crisis
Ensure professional learning consists of all of the aspects of effective
adult learning, crucially including professional enquiry and coaching
Embed professional learning as a career-long approach
Develop collaborative networks for professional learning
Develop a sense of self-efficacy and the efficacy of the profession as a whole
Create a respectful culture based on mutual trust across the system

3. Making it a reality
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The recommendations in
the report aim to help the
profession create and demand
opportunities for professional
learning that develop a sense
of self and professional
efficacy, feed into a healthy
professional learning culture
and create a sustainable,
stable and motivated
teaching workforce.
What will you do?
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If you are in a good school,
which supports people,
people will stay. The
difficulty is managing all of
those external factors which
are causing us problems.
We’ve got to put that
umbrella up and keep our
teachers in an environment
in which they are able to
learn and develop.
Tim Matthews,
Deputy Head at Oriel High School

5. What can teachers do?
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• Recognise your own professional
learning needs; ensure these are
connected to student outcomes and
aligned with your school’s improvement
objectives
• Identify your own strengths and share
these systematically with your peers
• Proactively tap into the expertise of
those around you
• Recognise that professional learning
opportunities exist in your day-to-day
and don’t need to be time and energy
consuming
• Drive the discussion about the
importance of professional learning in
your school and beyond
What will you do?
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Is there too much focus
on the management of
change rather than the
leadership of learning?
Graham Newell,
Director of Education
at IRIS Connect

7. What can schools do?
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• Prioritise leadership of learning
over simple management of
organisations
• Make time for professional learning
and embed it as part of the fabric
of day-to-day school life
• Invest in resources for ongoing
professional learning now, to save
on costs in the future
• Embed programmes that focus on
the co-evaluation, co-creation
and sharing of knowledge
• Identify appropriate coaching and
mentoring systems in the school
What will you do?
#ShapingCPD

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We spend a lot of time
discussing the recruitment
crisis, but it’s actually a
retention crisis. If we spent
more time developing and
looking after the staff that
are already experienced in
the classroom, they wouldn’t
leave. We need to learn from
that in order to embed it in
future recruitment.
Hannah Wilson,
Professional Learning and Consultant
Leader at Harris Federation

9. What can the wider system do?
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• Collect stronger data on the true
costs and causes of the recruitment
and retention crisis
• Embed the necessary skills for
ongoing professional learning during
initial teacher education
• Ensure that teacher professional
learning is identified as a priority at a
systems level
• Create opportunities for meaningful
collaboration between teachers,
schools and systems
• Ensure that external accountability
frameworks identify and recognise
best practice in professional learning
What will you do?
#ShapingCPD

10. Recruit,
Train,
Develop,
Retain.
#ShapingCPD
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