Partner with EDT to deliver the Early Career Framework (ECF)

We collaborate with trusted partners to deliver the Early Career Professional Development Programme (ECPDP), offering training and support based on the Early Career Framework (ECF).

We are the Lead Provider for a network of local Delivery Partners across England. Our Delivery Partners include teaching school hubs, Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) and other organisations who share our values and have a track record of delivering high-quality professional development.

Could your organisation support us in developing and delivering evidence-informed professional development for early career teachers (ECTs) and mentors across England?

Read on to discover more about our partnerships offer.

The role of a Delivery Partner

When partnering with us, you will lead on working with schools to provide the Early Career Framework to their teachers. Your expert facilitators will deliver our curriculum and support the ECTs through their online work to achieve their ECF training. Mentors, chosen by the relevant schools, will be provided with dedicated training and online learning to flourish in their role.

A dedicated Partnership Manager will work with you to ensure you are effectively delivering the programme and to support you to develop within your role as a Delivery Partner. We provide our Delivery Partners with a good financial package, an invitation to our yearly conference and the opportunity to join a mature and collaborative Delivery Partner network.

Why partner with EDT?

• Our approach

EDT is known and trusted for our longstanding commitment to school-led provision. We work together with our partners to create transformational professional-development pathways for educators, who on our programmes benefit from the best of local experience and international expertise.

Empowering mentors, equipping ECTs

We know from the impact data that our approach works. Like others, we base our model on Instructional Coaching, as this has a stronger evidential base for its impact on pupil outcomes than any other form of CPD. Unlike others, however, we take a nuanced approach in our use of this technique. Rather than ticking boxes, selecting predetermined action steps for their ECTs, mentors on our programme are supported to work with their ECTs to identify the highest leverage action steps and monitor progress together. This means we see our role to be empowering mentors to harness their professional judgement and experience, not telling them a ‘right way’ to foster the development of their ECTs.

In the second year of the programme, as ECTs grow in confidence and ability, mentors shift focus away from Instructional Coaching and towards a less directive role. This is to keep meeting them where they are and to help their ECTs prepare for life beyond induction - embracing the exciting challenges which lie ahead.

Throughout all this, mentors are given increasing choice in what they focus on in their own professional learning. We provide a range of rich resources to support their intellectual interests and career development, and the tools to consider how they can take their own practice to new levels.

• Our content

Our programme content is:

• Designed with schools, for schools. Our Delivery Partners contribute their deep knowledge of the schools in their area, as well as expert insights into the curriculum and specialist practice.
• Evidence-led, practically oriented, relevant, accessible and flexible to workload.
• Developed in partnership with experts from Sheffield Hallam University (one of England’s largest providers of initial teacher education, recognised for their excellence and innovation in teaching and learning), alongside experts in SEND (Equals), EAL (The Bell Foundation) and early years (led by Professor Jan Dubiel).

Our in-house experts also bring a wealth of experience from their own teaching practice as well as expertise in curriculum-development, at-scale delivery and quality assurance.

• Our impact

We support educators and leaders at all stages of their professional lives to improve the outcomes of children and young people and transform school cultures.

Discover our recent impact in the UK and around the world in our latest Impact Review.

Hear from one of our Delivery Partners to find out more about what it's like to work with us in the video below:

Get in touch

If you’d like to find out more about becoming a Delivery Partner, we’d be delighted to explore this opportunity further with you. Contact us via the link below and we’ll be in touch.

Contact UKPartners@edt.org