Driving Evidence-informed CPD: Insights from the TDT & Derventio Education Partnership

Stuart Reece

1. Shared Purpose: Embedding High-Quality CPD in Practice

Teacher Development Trust is the UK’s national charity dedicated to championing effective, evidence-based professional development in schools. It supports leaders with programmes, tools, and research to build cultures of collaborative improvement.
Derventio Education specialises in providing cloud-based education software—most notably SchooliP—that integrates performance management, self-evaluation, CPD, development planning and auditing into a unified improvement platform.

Their mutual commitment: enable school leaders to embed high-impact CPD systematically rather than sporadically.

2. The CPD Audit Tool: A Powerful Example of Co-development

Together, they have co-created a bespoke CPD Audit tool, built on Derventio’s Scrutiny framework, tailored to support TDT’s diagnostic services for schools.

Key features include:

Data aggregation from hundreds of schools’ CPD provisions.
Filtering by subject, key stage, geography or trust structure.
Advanced trend analysis to fuel TDT’s further research and inform school programmes.
User-friendly dashboards reflecting real-world needs—supporting practical application of CPD improvements.

3. Impact & Strategic Value

For TDT, the data-driven CPD Audit strengthens their research capabilities and helps target support more precisely - enabling evidence-based leadership in CPD culture change across schools.
For Derventio, the partnership showcases their ability to build bespoke, research-aligned tools that are tightly aligned with sector needs, demonstrating adaptability and educational integrity.
For schools and trusts, this collaboration provides access to tools that make staff development consistent, systematic, aligned to improvement goals, and analytically rich.

Conclusion

The partnership between the Teacher Development Trust and Derventio Education offers an exemplar of how domain expertise and educational technology can be combined to build tools that truly support school improvement.

By co-designing a data-rich CPD audit solution, they provide school leaders with actionable insight, while advancing research and driving meaningful sector impact. This collaboration stands as a model for future EdTech initiatives seeking to bridge practice and innovation in education.

Driving Evidence-informed CPD: Insights from the TDT & Derventio Education Partnership

1. Shared Purpose: Embedding High-Quality CPD in Practice

2. The CPD Audit Tool: A Powerful Example of Co-development

3. Impact & Strategic Value

Conclusion

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