A brighter future
for education
We have been a trusted education partner for nearly forty years, working collaboratively with schools and academies to support improvement and innovation.
Your challenges, our solutions
Our deep expertise enables us to tailor professional development and school improvement programmes that promote effective, sustainable, and student-focused outcomes.
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Connect, Celebrate, Collaborate
Organisational Culture
Teaching and Learning
Student Leadership
Attendance and Behaviour
Leadership Development
Impact and Improvement
Trust and System Leadership
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Membership
Offers inspiring and purposeful collaboration with other like-minded school leaders across primary, secondary, special and MAT schools as well as a range of discounted CPD and exclusive thought leadership.
Embedding Formative Assessment
Proven to positively impact GCSE outcomes, develop more engaged learners, help teacher wellbeing and retention, and create a greater sense of community.
Lead Practitioner
Nationally recognised status of excellent practice for teachers, support staff and leaders in any phase. Suitable for a cohort of staff, individuals or schools wanting to deliver their own training within their local network.
Leadership Franchises
Help your recruitment and retention, develop staff leaders, customise and deliver our training your way by partnering with us. For schools and MATs.
Student Leadership for IMPACT
SSAT are the UK’s biggest and most experienced provider of student leadership training and support for education providers, with over 30 years of experience helping settings build the capacity and capabilities of their student leaders.
Through webinars for staff facilitating your student leadership work and bespoke training for your student leaders we can help you increase the impact of your work in this crucial area. We can also help you to recognise the impact of your student leaders through our unrivalled accreditation process.
Upcoming events
View allThursday 26 March 2026
Aspiring Lead Practitioners
Thursday 16 April 2026
Hard Cases: Exploring complex behaviour challenges through case studies
Wednesday 22 April 2026
Improving Student Attendance Together: A Collaborative Programme for School Leaders
Wednesday 29 April 2026
Leading with AI: Strategic Guidance for School Leaders
Deep Leadership for Educational Transformation
Deep Leadership for Educational Transformation highlights some of the actions needed if the school system in England is to meet the needs of all students.
Top picks for you
View all25 March 2026
Spotlight on FEA Innovation: building whole-school cultures of body respect
Schools are increasingly asked to address wellbeing, inclusion and safeguarding alongside academic outcomes. Yet one factor that cuts across all three is often left implicit rather than examined directly: how school systems, policies and everyday practices shape pupils’ experiences of their bodies.
25 March 2026
Developing and supporting PLACE
Across the education system, there is growing recognition that educational inequality cannot be solved by schools acting alone. At Tees Valley Education, the development of our PLACE approach has been shaped by that realisation, and by a deliberate decision to work with communities, partners and policymakers rather than positioning education as an isolated solution.
12 March 2026
Attendance and the new Ofsted Framework: Some emergent insights
The new Ofsted framework promised to focus on inclusion. Achieving, belonging and thriving sit at the heart of the new inspection processes. As the most critical facet of inclusion, attendance should be reflected in the reality of school’s experiences of inspection, not just the rhetoric.
11 March 2026
Essential For Some, Beneficial For All
Research shows it is essential for students with Speech Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) to be explicitly taught tier 2 and tier 3 vocabulary, yet this is a strategy that all students benefit from: if we want our students to confidently speak like scientists, linguists, mathematicians, artists, musicians, historians, we must provide them with the vocabulary to do so.
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