Fellow roundtables

Stakeholder engagement is an essential part of policymaking and being policy-active is generally considered an important aspect of professionalism. As the professional body for teachers, we therefore see it as our responsibility to facilitate dialogue between policy and practice. 

As part of this work, we regularly host Fellow roundtables that bring together policymakers and practitioners to discuss current issues in teaching and learning. We also host roundtables to inform our responses to Calls for Evidence. 

Examples include:

• A roundtable at the House of Lords on the topic of Professionalism and Ethical Leadership
• An online roundtable with representatives from DfE on the topic of SEND
• An online roundtable with representatives from DfE on the topic of community engagement
• A series of roundtables to feed into the work of the Teaching Commission

Committees, expert panels and advisory boards

Chartered College of Teaching staff are regularly called upon to represent the teaching profession on advisory boards, committees and expert panels. A selection of these are presented below. This work also allows us to further strengthen the position of the College in the sector.

Commissions

• Teaching Commission (UCL & NEU); the Commission is a joint endeavour with a remit to make both policy and practical suggestions that can make going into teaching more attractive, and to make teaching a job that’s worthwhile and doable.
• Commission addressing conspiracy belief, misinformation and disinformation amongst young people (Public First) 

Alliances

• Dame Alison Peacock chairs the Ethical Leadership Alliance that meets termly to debate issues of ethical importance for the teaching profession. Membership of this group comprises a representative from each teaching union, YST, Church of England, nasen, CST, Institute of School Business Leadership (ISBL)
• UNESCO Global Alliance for the Science of Learning

Steering groups

• DfE – NPQ Framework Review expert steering group 
• DfE Recruitment and Retention
• DfE Early Years Research 
• National Play steering group
• Art UK Education steering panel
• Nature Premium steering group

Advisory/working groups, expert panels, research and working groups

• NFER Teacher Recruitment and Retention advisory group
• UCL Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research advisory group 
• Fair Education Alliance advisory board
• Headteachers’ Round Table 
• National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE) Research & Innovation Board
• Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0-11) advisory board
• Early Years Neuroscience working group
• Eton Research Group
• PISA OECD Foreign Language Measure expert panel
• Well Schools Collective advisory group 
• Sustainability education advisory board 
• Creative culture and education advisory board 
• Rethinking assessment and accountability advisory group

Trustee boards

• Big Change
• Edge Foundation
• Helen Hamlyn Trust
• NASBTT
• Maternity Teacher Paternity Teacher Project

If you would like one of our staff members to join your advisory board, working group or commission, please contact us on research@chartered.college. We would be happy to discuss how we can support your work.