We support teachers and school leaders to keep getting better. Together, we’re shaping the future of education to give every child the best start in life.
🤝Do you have a track record of coaching teacher educators or delivering high-quality professional development training?
Then apply to become an Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Fellow with us! 🎓
Closes 11:59pm Wednesday 1 May. Apply via the link today 🔗
What’s better than books? FREE BOOKS.
To celebrate
#WorldBookDay
, we’re giving away £175 worth of CPD books to one lucky winner.
To be in for a chance, just like this post and tag a teacher friend below who would like to win.
📚 FREE BOOKS 📚
That’s it.
That’s the tweet.
To enter, just retweet this post and tag a friend in the comments who might like £50 of brand new CPD reading.
Good luck, Twitter friends!
Winner announced next week 👍
#edutwitter
#giveaway
#FreebieFriday
Early Career Teachers resources launch today: we’ve spent 136 hours filming and 2,913 hours testing our resources in schools to make them the best they can be.
Access our free tried-and-tested materials, based on the best available evidence and practice
"Wherever you are in your journey, if you want to begin teaching and start making a difference in the classroom, there is a route in for you."
Find your path into teaching in our latest blog from
@nmgilbride
🔽
With thanks to all our partners, participants and staff for their hard work and commitment to supporting early career teachers. We are pleased that our Early Career Framework programme has been rated ‘outstanding’ by
@Ofstednews
.
More here:
Thank you to everyone in this year’s
#FutureLeaders
cohort, our facilitators and summer mentors for two days packed with learning, challenge and discussion.
Our brains are buzzing – we hope yours are too!
We know that repeated retrieval makes memories stronger. Therefore, wherever possible, we want to incorporate retrieval tasks into our curriculum rather than re-exposure. Here, participants work through criteria for successful repeated retrieval.
#ExpertMiddleLeaders
We're really pleased to be appointed as a lead provider of the new NPQs. Alongside the early career framework, they'll support teachers and school leaders to develop their expertise. We're excited to work with schools across the country to deliver these new qualifications.
1/ It’s an honour to be named as a lead provider of the
#earlycareerframework
. This framework has huge potential for the teaching profession.
#NQT
Read our CEO
@h_spencer
‘s full statement ⬇️
"Instructional coaching, getting it done really well, is really hard."
@jon_hutchinson_
at the
@researchED1
Guide to Leadership book launch.
What is instructional coaching? 🤔 Over on our blog,
@wheninclass
breaks down the basics ⬇️
We are delighted to announce that former National Schools Commissioner Sir David Carter will be joining us as Executive Director of Executive Leadership
@Carter6D
@ifteaching
Happy New Year! What a start to 2023 – we are incredibly proud of our Executive Director Marie Hamer, who has been awarded an MBE for her services to education. Congratulations, Marie, for this recognition of your hard work and commitment to tackling educational disadvantage. 👏
🎉Congratulations to everyone who passed their National Professional Qualification (NPQ) with Ambition and our delivery partners.
We're so proud to see you sharing your achievements!
We're excited to announce plans to merge with our partners
@ifteaching
, a specialist graduate school for teachers. Together we will support teachers & school leaders to keep getting better so all pupils get a great education
All six NPQs are now free for most teachers and school leaders, following a change to eligibility criteria from
@educationgovuk
.
Find out what our Chief Executive Hilary Spencer has to say about it and how it could directly benefit your career.
Win
@PepsMccrea
's High Impact Teaching book series🎊
To celebrate the release of Developing Expert Teaching, we’re giving away the FULL book series to two lucky winners.
♥ Like this post
🏷 Tag one person you’d share your win with in the comments
📅 Closing Monday 3 July 9am
The Expert Edit: Instructional Coaching with
@GenevieveField
is here!
Find out how to best to utilise this powerful professional development tool in your journey through expertise.
Get your copy now, with three research extracts and prompts to reflect on your own practice.
Our mission is to help educators serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds to
#keepgettingbetter
. In this video, our CEO
@MelanieRenowden
explains why this is so important. Learn more about Ambition Institute here:
This morning we’re launching our latest
#FutureLeaders
cohort – virtually!
With 135 aspirational senior leaders joining us from their offices, living rooms or kitchens over the next two days, this makes our largest cohort ever 🎉
The reach of this 500-strong
#ExpertMiddleLeaders
cohort can make real headway in helping educators serving pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep getting better.
@TomRees_77
reflects on creating a programme informed by the best available evidence:
Five principles for inclusion
This new discussion paper from
@TomRees_77
and
@bennewmark
published in partnership with
@CSTvoice
sets out principles to underpin a more affirmative version of inclusion and shares some examples of where they are already being enacted. (1/7)
🧵⬇️
1/2 We're delighted to announce
@h_spencer
as our new CEO. Currently Director of
@Govt_Equality
, Hilary says "It's such a privilege to be joining as CEO, to use the expertise I've gained in my time working across govt to lead Ambition in its important mission."
A year ago, amidst uncertainty and fear, schools closed their doors. In the 52 weeks since, teachers and leaders across the country have dealt with lockdowns, bubbles, masks and online learning. We want to celebrate their achievements and motivation to keep getting better
THREAD
Calling all teachers, school leaders and trust leaders
Join us for this webinar on how professional development can power impactful teaching. It’s on Wednesday 28 June, 4.30pm.
Chaired by
@PepsMccrea
, panel includes
@NLad84
and
@MrsBallAP
Join us here:
This week we were delighted to announce that Ambition Institute has been appointed as a lead provider of the new national professional qualifications (NPQs).
Catch up on all things NPQ with our explainer blog:
Ambition School Leadership and the Institute for Teaching have merged to create Ambition Institute, a graduate school for teachers, school leaders and system leaders
Congratulations to the 87 new teaching school hubs! We're excited to work with our partners to help teachers and school leaders across the country to keep getting better 🎉
Read our CEO
@h_spencer
's full response to the announcement ⬇️
📢 New research: Modelling evidence-based practice in initial teacher education.
Our first piece of research looks at the benefits of modelling in teacher professional development, with actionable insights for teacher educators across the sector.
More:
The fifth trustee we’re welcoming this week is Sam Freedman
@Samfr
.
Previously senior policy adviser to the government, Sam is Senior Adviser at
@ArkSchools
, Senior Fellow at
@InstituteforGov
and a high school governor.
@h_spencer
and our Board look forward to working with Sam.
We’re always grateful for the tireless work of teachers, but this year we think it’s especially important to say a HUGE THANK YOU to staff in schools up and down the country who are working hard to keep our children safe and learning 👏👏👏
#ThankATeacher
@UKThankATeacher
Today we welcome participants from Trusts across England to our Teaching Leaders residential. Follow us here to find out what your
#ExpertMiddleLeaders
are learning about this week: we're covering the science of learning, subject-specific curriculum design, assessment & much more
"The best professional development is concerned with wellbeing as well as capability - when leaders see their team as people as well as professionals they will get the most out of them." Sir David Carter
@Carter6D
#GTDF
New on the blog! 📝
Ambition Institute literacy expert
@BagshawMc_Ed
explores how a coordinated literacy approach can help strengthen your curriculum, sharing practical tips and further resources! 📚
Read now. 👇
.
@jtoop
‘We know two things to be true. The first is that children from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to do well in school, but this doesn’t need to be the case. The second is effective leadership and teaching can improve life chances’
🎉 Huge congratulations to everyone who has passed their leadership National Professional Qualification with Ambition and our partners. We're very proud of you!
It's wonderful to see everyone celebrating their success today 👇
#AmbitionNPQs
This week is the first step on an NPQ journey for FIVE THOUSAND participants in our November 2021 cohort 👏
To you all, we simply say…enjoy every minute!
📖 10 min read: Instructional coach and Ambition Fellow
@wheninclass
argues that we should balance two purposes of instructional coaching.
Read the full article on our blog 👇
"...to always be on that path to expertise means you're always working on something".
@jon_hutchinson_
on instructional coaching at the
@researchED1
Guide to Leadership book launch.
What is instructional coaching?
@wheninclass
breaks down the basics ⬇️
We’re thrilled to be working with teachers in
@OakNational
to deliver over 180 virtual lessons each week, to help bridge the disadvantage gap before schools re-open. The (online) doors open tomorrow!
We’re pleased to announce we have secured funding from
@educationgovuk
to develop fifteen hundred middle leaders working in the most disadvantaged areas. Find out more:
Claims that exclusion itself is responsible for increased knife crime or gang violence are both unhelpful and unsubstantiated. Read our comments on the correlation between exclusions and knife crime here:
On your way to becoming a mentor for brand new teachers?
Our latest Expert Edit pulls together research behind
#instructionalcoaching
, and helps you to reflect on how to get the best out of this powerful development tool 🛠️🧰
Download your free copy here.
📢 NEW: We're launching an instructional coaching programme.
Gain the skills to inform teacher development in your school with instructional coaching.
Coach and be coached on this 3-month hands-on programme.
NEW long read on our blog: Ambition Fellow
@wheninclass
explores some of the purposes of instructional coaching, comparing an emphasis on habit formation with one that prioritises the development of teachers’ mental models.
Read more 🔽
The Expert Edit: Building School Culture is here 🏫
🧠Compelling research extracts on school culture and conditions handpicked by
@Barker_J
💡Insight from
@EducEndowFoundn
's
@Sharples_J
📝Reflective prompts to hone the culture in your school.
Download your FREE copy now🔽
Teachers & school leaders are doing incredible work right now. We want to support you. Join us for our
#SummerSeries
– free webinars throughout the summer term to support you through, and beyond, the coronavirus outbreak.
Learn more:
"Motivation is as much a responsibility of schools as instruction. It’s only when we get both these things right that we’re giving our pupils the best in terms of their learning and future life chances."
Read more from
@PepsMccrea
here
Curriculum, we’re all talking about it. But what does the research say? We’ve synthesized some of the best thinking into a free, accessible guide for you to put into practice in your context. Download your free copy today:
Over the last few weeks, we've been delivering online residentials & conferences across our programmes.
Thank you to all our staff, facilitators, speakers & participants for making them just as good as our in-person events - and for putting up with any feline gatecrashers! 🐱
The NEW Expert Edit: Leading and Teaching Literacy with
@BagshawMc_Ed
&
@suchmo83
is here!✏️
🧠Insights into literacy leadership and teaching.
🔖Research extracts.
❓ Reflective prompts to help you with your practice.
Download your free copy here 👇
We are pleased to announce that we have received a successful outcome from our recent Ofsted monitoring visit of our NPQ and ECT programmes, with overwhelmingly positive feedback from participants, school leaders and delivery partners.
Read the report:
📚 We’ve teamed up with
@researchED1
and
@JohnCattEd
to launch their new guide – containing the latest evidence on school leadership, with contributions from leaders and thinkers across the sector.
Sign up for the online launch:
Good morning and welcome to the 500 participants starting their
#ExpertMiddleLeaders
journey with us this morning – from the comfort of their own homes!
Over the next four days our 2020 cohort will explore leadership and curriculum planning at their virtual launch residential.
At our
#FutureLeaders
residential we asked our speakers, mentors and participants what they wish they'd known before taking on their leadership role. Here's
@AlisonKriel
on wellbeing and emotional fitness:
1/ Join us for our
#SummerSeries
webinars throughout the summer term:
👉15 May: How will we tackle the disadvantage gap when schools re-open? With
@Carter6D
👉22 May: How can we assess the gap��and what does it mean for closing it? With
@HFletcherWood
Great to hear that 3,000 more new teachers will be able to benefit from
@educationgovuk
Early Career Framework this autumn. Read
@hamer_marie
's statement on our website:
Good morning! Today we’re pleased to welcome back nearly 500 incredible
#ExpertMiddleLeaders
from our 2019 cohort.
They kick off their second year on the programme with a virtual mid-point residential.
We're continuing our
#FutureLeaders
weekend by welcoming back our fantastic 2019 cohort today.
@jameslane41
will be taking them through a virtual, collaboration-themed couple of days as we look at how to make effective partnerships with parents and other schools.
Find out everything you need to know about the NPQ in Leading Literacy in under 90 seconds with Ambition expert
@Suchmo83
.
🛠️ Course content
✅ Eligibility
📆 Timings
👇
New on our blog:
@ClaireCouves
of
@reachfeltham
explains her three key principles for explaining clearly when teaching remotely.
Check out the full article below, complete with a video tutorial and further reading 🧠💻
Welcome to those at our
#FutureLeaders
residential; a fantastic opportunity to share knowledge with your peers, and begin developing your practice, to have the best possible impact at your school. Share your thoughts and photos here using the hashtag
#FutureLeaders
.
"If one child goes to an outstanding school and another goes to a school in special measures, that's an inequality that we can't accept. We need to do something collectively, beyond our own schools."
@Carter6D
#teachingleaders
"If I have learned one thing in 35 years it is that the best investment and the most effective means of reducing the reliance on intervention is to focus on the capacity, the capability and the competence of teachers."
@Carter6D