Northern Alliance Professional Learning & Networking Opportunities
Click on the links below to book your place on the current professional learning sessions. This page will be updated regularly when new opportunities are added.

Embedding Skills throughout the Learner Journey – for teachers/Early Years Practitioners/CLD Practitioners/college staff
This professional learning opportunity is for practitioners from across the Northern Alliance and South West Improvement Collaboratives who are interested in taking forward the systematic progression and recording of skills that learners develop throughout their educational journey.
Find out more about this course of CLPL throughout session 22-23 at the link below.

Embedding Skills throughout the Learner Journey – for Senior Leaders and Local Authority Leads
This professional learning opportunity is for practitioners from across the Northern Alliance and South West Improvement Collaboratives who are interested in taking forward the systematic progression and recording of skills that learners develop throughout their educational journey.
Find out more about this course of CLPL throughout session 22-23 at the link below.

Let’s Talk ELC – Early Emotional Child Development – from Wed 3rd May
Child Development underpins our national guidance: Realizing the Ambition. Through the understanding of Child development, we can identify the next step in learning and consider how to best support the well-being and learning of all children and young people.
In this series of Let’s Talk ELC, we will offer 4 workshops focusing on child development:
- Development of the Baby brain
- Communication in Young Children
- Impulse and Emotional Regulation
- Trauma Awareness

Evolving Systems Thinking – A Network for Previous Cohorts – 4th & 18th May, 15.45 – 17.00
Over two sessions we will join together to reflect on your learning from the programme, where has it taken you with your system leadership and where you want to go next. We’ll consider what matters to you in your current context and how you would like this new network to support each other as we explore aspects of leadership and system improvement.

Head Teacher Leadership & System Improvement Network – Tues 11th May, 15.45 – 17.00
Join fellow Head Teachers from across the Northern Alliance in a new network opportunity.
This is an initial session to create an open forum to explore and discuss what matters to you around leadership and system improvement

Play Pedagogy Collaborative Enquiry
We are currently looking for the next cohort of mentors who can provide 1:1 virtual support for participants of the 2023-2024 programme.
Are you an experienced practitioner with a strong passion and understanding of play pedagogy?
Find out more and register your interest to be a Mentor.
Secondary Subject Support Groups
The Northern Alliance Secondary Subject Support Groups are here for all Teachers and Principal Teachers across our collaborative. Find out more about the groups, links to join and dates for all of the meetings and events taking place this term in our handy ThingLink.