Secondary Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

Adaptive Teaching Leaders

 COST: £500 + VAT per school for 3 people (once you have booked 1 colleague from your school, please email cpdadmin@hackney.gov.uk with the emails and names of your other 2 colleagues)

Free for schools who have bought into the package.

In order for a school to attend, this course requires a senior leader, middle leader and classroom teacher to be in attendance. 

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 In Hackney’s current context of rising SEND demands, supporting school staff with Adaptive Teaching strategies is crucial. Amid school closures in London, we are increasingly seeing children with complex needs transition to unfamiliar settings, underscoring the need for adaptive expertise across all levels of your school community. Creating a supportive and responsive learning environment helps students build confidence, resilience, and a positive self-concept, while also fostering a more equitable learning experience for all.

Building on the work from our previous adaptive teaching cohort and adapted to Hackney schools, this new programme will target both leadership and pedagogy to ensure a more sustainable long-term impact on learners, namely through curriculum development. 

Much of the material will continue to prioritise evidence-based learning, alongside exploring models and techniques for their efficient implementation, whether through school-wide initiatives or classroom-centred methods. A deeper exploration of adaptive expertise will permeate all stages of the programme. This would encompass aspects like adaptive mindset, cognitive and metacognitive habits, adaptive problem-solving, as well as teacher-to-teacher collaborative learning and coaching. 

The programme will run from November 2024 through to the end of the summer term 2025 and is punctuated by training followed by school action, coaching and school implementation and development. The Adaptive Teaching Leader roadmap is laid out chronologically steps 1-8 below.

Engagement: 

3 members from each school who need to attend this training will become Adaptive Teaching Leaders:

1. School leaders who have oversight of school improvement (headteacher / assistant headteacher / SENCo) 

2. Middle leader

3. Classroom Teacher

Programme Outline

Reviewing Current Practice

Step 1	Wednesday, 4th Dec 9.30am to 12.30pm The Tomlinson Centre		Face to Face half day training of Adaptive Teaching Leaders Introduction to the programme:  Towards adaptive expertise: Adaptive mindset; Cognitive and metacognitive habits; Adaptive problem-solving; Teacher-to-teacher collaborative learning and coaching.	Adaptive Teaching Leaders
Step 2	Autumn 2 - Spring 1		Quality of teaching and learning for inclusion Reviews: Evidence collected by Adaptive Teaching Leaders and involving as many stakeholders as possible and added to your T&L for Inclusion Review tool. Set a date for an Audit visit with a member of Hackney's SEND team involved in the programme to visit and work with Adaptive Teaching Leaders to triangulate the evidence collected. This involves a day visit. Expert reviewers will act as a critical friend and support the process of evidence collection and identifying priorities for change. An example timetable for the day will be found on the padlet.	Adaptive Teaching Leaders

Adaptive Teaching Action Planning

Step 3	Monday, 27th Jan 4.00pm to 5.00pm Online	Twilight Workshop to reflect on the evidence collected in the review and session will support SEND Champions to identify strengths & 3 priority actions for improvement.	Adaptive Teaching Leaders
Step 4	Monday 3rd - 14th Feb Online via Invitation per school	Coaching session.  Individual 30 min session for each school	Adaptive Teaching Leaders – bring additional relevant staff you want to involve in the process e.g. Teaching & Learning lead / Headteacher

Implementation of Adaptive Teaching Action Plan

Step 5	Wednesday 5th Mar 8.30am to 10.30am The Tomlinson Centre	Second face to face half day training for senior leaders.  Evidence informed approaches to implementing action plans.	Senior Leaders
Step 6	Tuesday, 18th Mar 4.00pm to 5.00pm Online	Capacity building twilight and mobilising middle leadership/Adaptive teaching	Middle leaders
Step 7	Tuesday, 25th Mar 4.00pm to 5.00pm Online individual sessions  28th Apr - 5th May	Online twilight to prepare for coaching session   Coaching for sustainability – embedding into every day practices	Adaptive Teaching Leaders

Review of Progress & Professional Learning Community Development

Step 8

Monday, 9th Jun 9.30am to 12.30pm The Tomlinson Centre

Final face to face half day training for Adaptive Teaching Leaders.  Systemic change to support adaptive practice

Agents of ongoing change

• Target audience:
• Primary
• Post 16
• Early Years
• Secondary

• Included in package:
• Primary

Making sense of Autism - Primary and Secondary

Gain a better understanding and awareness of autism and the way it affects children in schools.

Who is this training for?
This is a raising awareness module for anyone working in schools. This includes teaching and support staff, office and ancillary staff, caterers, caretakers, transport staff and governors.

What will you learn?

• Enhance your understanding and awareness of autism and how autism can affect children in schools
• Know the importance of understanding the individual child and their profile of strengths and needs
• Identify potential barriers to learning for autistic children
• Begin to make reasonable adjustments in the way you support autistic children
• Reflect on the information you need to collect for creating a one-page profile

 

Dates

Friday, 29th November 2024, 1.30 - 3.00pm

Monday, 10th March 2025, 1.30 - 3.00pm

Wednesday, 4th June 2025, 1.30 - 3.00pm

 

Book your training here (Google form)

• Target audience:
• Primary
• Secondary

SEND Conference

 

Hackney’s annual SEND Conference on Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 is going to be a comprehensive and informative event focusing on inclusive education. 

We will be updating this page with more information in due course.

• Target audience:
• Primary
• Secondary
• Early Years