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This section contains continuing professional development (CPD) materials to support head teachers and senior leaders in the implementation of the Primary Framework for literacy and mathematics. It focuses on how the school improvement cycle can be contextualised to the school's priorities for improvement in literacy and mathematics. There is a booklet, Leading improvement through the Primary Framework, together with supporting documents that give further details on school-based CPD and other aspects of improvement through the Primary Framework.

These materials set out to demonstrate how the Primary Framework provides a flexible tool for school improvement. They identify the key features of school-based, classroom-located, collaborative CPD that research evidence shows works when it is well led and managed. It also offers support to head teachers and senior leadership teams in leading these forms of CPD, and in implementing and sustaining the increasingly important features of CPD the Framework can stimulate and support.

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Day 1

Leading improvement using the Primary Framework: Handbook

PDF 510KB

Leading improvement using the Primary Framework: CPD models

PDF 65KB

Leading improvement using the Primary Framework: Planning grid

PDF 30KB

Leading improvement using the Primary Framework: CPD programme

PDF 28KB

Leading improvement using the Primary Framework: Yearly timeline

PDF 27KB

Leading improvement using the Primary Framework: Quality first teaching

PDF 29KB

Day 2

Headteachers' CPD programme - Day 2 - Session 1 and 2

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Session 2: Leading on learning - making best use of Assessment for learning

  PPT 866KB

Session 3: Improving practice and progression through Lesson Study

 PPT 608KB

Presenters' notes: Session 3 - Improving practice and progression through Lesson Study

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Handout A. Improving practice and progression through Lesson Study: a handbook for headteachers, leading teachers and subject leaders

 PDF 87KBWORD 115KB RTF 376KB

Handout 1. Why we cannot ignore classroom collaborative professional learning - a research rationale

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Handout 2. Group record of discussions

 PDF 11KB WORD 54KB RTF 99KB

Handout 3. Practitioner views

 PDF 17KB WORD 57KB RTF 112KB

Handout 4. Improving practice and progression through Lesson Study

 PDF 11KB WORD 47KB RTF 75KB

Handout 5. Using a Lesson Study CPD approach in literacy: Improving writing (Year 5)

 PDF 62KB WORD 83KB RTF 169KB

Handout 6. Using a Lesson Study CPD approach in mathematics with a focus on number

 PDF 71KB WORD 77KB RTF 127KB
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