Implementation Pathways

Turning Professional Learning into Lasting Classroom Practice

Research consistently shows that attending a CPD session alone rarely changes classroom practice. Lasting improvement comes through structured implementation, reflection and ongoing support.

Our implementation guides are designed to bridge the gap between learning something new and embedding it into everyday teaching.

The Three Implementation Guides

High-quality professional development doesn't end when the session finishes. Lasting improvement comes from sustained implementation, purposeful reflection and ongoing support.

To help schools move from professional learning to professional practice, every CPD unit includes three complementary implementation guides. Each guide has been carefully designed for a different audience, ensuring everyone understands their role in embedding new approaches across the school.

Together, these resources create a joined-up implementation process that supports leaders, teachers and teaching assistants to translate research into consistent classroom practice.

Leadership Roadmap

Designed for

  • Senior Leaders

  • Middle Leaders

  • CPD Leads

  • Professional Development Leads

The Leadership Roadmap is the implementation guide for those leading change across the school. Rather than focusing on classroom practice itself, it provides a structured framework for planning, delivering, monitoring and sustaining professional development over time.

Each roadmap breaks implementation into manageable stages, helping leaders understand what needs to happen before the session, during delivery and throughout the weeks that follow. It encourages regular coaching conversations, opportunities to gather evidence, and clear checkpoints that keep implementation moving forward.

By focusing on long-term improvement rather than one-off training events, the Leadership Roadmap helps ensure professional development becomes embedded in everyday practice rather than remaining isolated to a single CPD session.

The Leadership Roadmap helps leaders to:

  • Plan and organise successful CPD delivery

  • Communicate clear expectations with staff

  • Monitor implementation over several weeks

  • Support colleagues through coaching and professional dialogue

  • Evaluate the impact of implementation

  • Embed new practices consistently across the school

Individual Implementation Guide

Designed for

  • Classroom Teachers

  • Early Career Teachers

  • Experienced Teachers

  • Classroom Practitioners

The Individual Implementation Guide is the teacher's personal roadmap for putting professional learning into practice. Rather than asking staff to remember everything from the CPD session, the guide breaks implementation into small, manageable actions that can be applied immediately.

Each guide is organised into weekly stages, allowing teachers to focus on one improvement at a time. Reflection prompts, practical classroom actions and implementation checkpoints help build confidence while reducing the feeling of being overwhelmed.

Rather than introducing numerous new strategies, the guide promotes deliberate practice, encouraging teachers to refine one approach consistently until it becomes part of everyday classroom practice.

Teachers use the guide to:

  • Review the key messages from the CPD session

  • Identify one implementation priority

  • Apply strategies in everyday lessons

  • Reflect on successes and barriers

  • Recognise common misconceptions

  • Build lasting professional habits over time

TA Implementation Guide

Designed for

  • Teaching Assistants

  • Intervention Staff

  • Learning Support Assistants

  • Classroom Support Staff

Teaching Assistants play a unique role in supporting learning, so their implementation guide has been specifically adapted to reflect intervention groups, classroom support and small-group teaching.

Rather than replicating the teacher guide, it translates each strategy into situations that TAs encounter every day. Practical examples, discussion prompts and weekly actions help TAs understand not only what to do, but why each approach supports pupils' learning.

The guide encourages Teaching Assistants to focus on one strategy at a time, applying it consistently before introducing another. This gradual approach builds confidence, develops expertise and ensures new approaches become part of everyday support for pupils.

Teaching Assistants use the guide to:

  • Select one strategy to implement

  • Apply it consistently during interventions and classroom support

  • Reflect on what worked well

  • Identify misconceptions and common pitfalls

  • Develop confidence through repeated practice

  • Strengthen the impact of intervention sessions

Working Together

Although each guide has a different purpose, they have been designed to work together as part of one coherent implementation process.

Leaders use the Leadership Roadmap to organise, monitor and sustain implementation across the school.

Teachers use the Individual Implementation Guide to translate research into everyday classroom practice.

Teaching Assistants use the TA Implementation Guide to adapt the same evidence-informed approaches for interventions, small-group teaching and classroom support.

Together, these three guides ensure that professional learning doesn't stop at the end of a CPD session. Instead, they provide a clear pathway from research, to implementation, to sustained improvement—helping schools embed evidence-informed practice that has a lasting impact on teaching and learning.