Welcome to Best Practice Network

Our aim is to make a difference to children by developing skilled and fulfilled education professionals in schools, early years settings and other organisations.

We work in partnership with Teaching School Alliances, Multi-Academy Trusts, Early Years Providers, Universities and Colleges as well as a network of hundreds of practitioners including school leaders, teachers, support staff, coaches, facilitators and assessors.

Our flagship programmes include the National Professional Qualifications for school leaders, Early Years Initial Teacher Training, the National Award for SEN Coordination, Higher Level Teaching Assistant status and the Evolve whole-school transformation programme.

We believe in a school-led system and the DfE Standard for Teacher Professional Development, that effective professional development is a partnership between leaders, teachers and providers, focused on improving pupil outcomes, drawing on evidence, with collaboration sustained over time. As a founder member of the Outstanding Leaders Partnership, we have worked with 50 TSA Partners to train 3,500 school leaders in over a thousand schools in recent years.