Collaborating powerfully with schools to provide excellent training and continual professional development opportunities.
Red Kite Connect is dedicated to innovative and collaborative professional development for all school colleagues. By leveraging strong strategic partnerships and drawing on expertise, we create tailored development opportunities that meet local and regional needs. Our approach focuses on sharing best practices and fostering sustained, impactful professional growth across all schools.
Red Kite Connect builds and nurtures strategic partnerships to enhance the educational system. By collaborating with schools, networks and other organisations, we bridge gaps and share expertise. Our partnerships focus on leveraging collective strengths to innovate, avoid duplication, and create impactful professional development opportunities tailored to the needs of diverse educational contexts.
Discover a range of innovative and collaborative professional development courses designed to enhance your skills and knowledge. Join us to take your professional growth to the next level.
Unlock tailored training solutions designed to meet the unique needs of your teams. Partner with us to create impactful professional development that drives growth and success.
Our strengths come from our partners. Collaborate with us to create professional development solutions for the education community.
This programme is designed to support educators across primary and secondary settings to develop, refine, and embed effective autism-specific practice. It combines evidence-informed approaches with collaborative professional learning to improve outcomes for autistic pupils.
Suitable forSchool LeaderSENCO
Join fellow MAT CEOs from across the region for an early-evening dinner and purposeful conversation in a relaxed setting at Weetwood Hall, Leeds from 6pm till 8:30pm.
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Building Better Parent Partnerships is a practical three-part webinar series designed to help school staff strengthen relationships with parents and carers, particularly when supporting neuro-divergent pupils and those experiencing emotional or attendance-based challenges.
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strategic partners
16
collaborative partnerships
300
engaged schools
14
years delivering CPD
Mission
Our mission is to strengthen education by uniting schools, developing expertise and growing capacity across our region. We bring leaders and practitioners together to learn, innovate and respond confidently to national change. Through high-quality collaboration, we champion improvement beyond individual schools and support every educator to thrive professionally at each stage of their career.
13 October 2026
School leaders are often told what needs to change. The harder task is working out how to make improvement happen through people. Drawing on their experiences of headship, Angela O'Brien and Rachel Rose explore how Systems Leadership can help leaders build clarity, strengthen teams and create the conditions for lasting change.
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1 June 2026
The Teacher Training Entitlement (TTE) was introduced as part of a Labour manifesto commitment, signalling a renewed investment in the development of teachers and leaders at every stage of their careers. While many will be familiar with the Early Career Framework (ECF) and National Professional Qualifications (NPQs), there has, until recently, been less clarity about what a broader entitlement for all staff might look like.
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5 May 2026
Introducing the Community of Research Engaged Schools (CoRES) a new community of practice for interprofessional knowledge exchange and research partnership.
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