Big Move 2: Staff Talent

At Windsor Academy Trust, we are proud to work with 1,000 dedicated and talented teaching and professional services staff. Our approach to staff learning, development and wellbeing is based on the belief that our people are our most precious resource.

Our trust family continually strives to be an employer of choice, and our sector leading approach features as a case study in Sir David Carter and Laura McInerney’s book, ‘Leading Academy Trusts: Why some fail but most don’t’

Here’s just some of the ways we have continued to invest in our people during 2022:

• Introduction of the WAT Talent Institute to provide a central hub for CPL opportunities and to accelerate staff talent

• CPL opportunities provided for over 800 exceptional teachers, leaders and professional services staff across our family

• Four staff enabled to take a sabbatical from their role to bring their talents to critical trust-wide developments through our WAT Associate programme

• 57 staff supported through our Practitioner Researcher programme, providing researchgrounded and practice-informed professional learning across the WAT family

• Our Practitioner Researcher programme extended to include an optional pathway to gain a Chartered College of Teaching (CCT) Certificate in Education Research Inquiry

• 38 new WAT teachers supported as they embark on their teaching career through our Early Career Framework (ECF) as a delivery

• 18 new apprentices undertook their training across the WAT family

• Our Instructional Coaching programme delivered to over 60% of teaching staff

• Our ‘What makes a WAT leader’ programme, aimed at powering up our senior leaders, successfully launched

• Sign up to the DfE Education Wellbeing Charter and the Disability Confident Employer scheme

• Learning and development of teaching professionals locally, regionally and nationally supported through our Talent Institute

• National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) delivered to over 280 staff regionally and nationally as a trusted partner of the Teacher Development Trust