Teaching Leaders

Teaching Leaders is an education charity, specifically focused on developing outstanding middle leaders. It was developed in 2008 in partnership with four of the UK's most forward-thinking educational organisations: the National College, ARK, Teach First and Future Leaders. We identify, train and develop middle leaders working in schools in the mos... t challenging contexts. Over the last five years, we have worked with middle leaders in 440 eligible secondary schools through our two programmes; TL Fellows, for high potential individuals, and TL Teams, for groups of middle leaders. The TL Fellows programme was launched in 2008 as a pilot for 30 high potential middle leaders in London. In 2011, we were awarded a 3-year expansion grant to grow the TL Fellows programme to a further 720 middle leaders nationwide. To date, we have developed 776 Fellows and Alumni from 209 schools across the country and are targeting a cohort of 420 high-potential individuals for our 2014 cohort. The TL Teams programme started in 2010 as an in-school modular programme. In 2012, we were awarded a licence from the National College to deliver the National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership (NPQML) in partnership with Future Leaders. We now deliver the NPQML qualification nationwide to schools in challenging contexts. In response to the challenges facing primary schools, in 2014, TL has developed a bespoke leadership development programme called TL Primary in partnership with their supporters, which include: NAHT, CfBT and primary heads from across the country. TL Primary is a two-year programme for high-potential middle leaders in schools in challenging contexts, designed to make a significant impact on pupil progress. Year one focuses on whole- school impact, developing groups of middle leaders in the same school who collaborate on an in-school impact project. Year two focuses on individual middle leaders who lead a cross or out of school impact project. See our journey so far in this online Prezi.Read More