Each year the senior leadership team consider together over the course of a full day and in detail, not just the performance of every colleague, but also their confidence and capacity to learn. The resulting analysis is thus the springboard for the next year’s CPD offer.

CUREE is delighted to announce that the School of Education at Wolverhampton University has become the first organisationto join as a Skein local delivery partner.

The School of Education is highly successful - Ofsted has graded both its primary and secondary provision as outstanding and is one of the top teacher training institutions in the country. Their close association with the Black Country Childrens' Services Improvement Partnership (BCCSIP) further augments their capacity to provide high quality professional development support.

CUREE has an established partnership with the School and has jointly undertaken large scale research with them We look forward to working even more closely with them in the future.

We have talked to a lot of people now as they make use of the Skein service and we are beginning to get a good idea of the most common questions which arise. The Skein FAQ is where we try to answer those questions. The list grows everyday so keep looking. And if have a question you can't find the answer to, let us know and we'll try to help - and add it to the FAQ if others are likely to want to know the same thing.

The Head of Rokeby School in Rugby, one of our Skein pathfinder schools, affirms the value of the process.

"We valued the recommendations about how, by building on our ongoing school improvement work and making small changes to existing mechanisms and structures, we could significantly strengthen our CPD and have better evidence for evaluating its impact on our staff and pupils"