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  • Leadership
  • Professional Learning
  • Raising Achievement

Leadership

It is vitally important that schools invest in the development of talented staff. Inspire TSA supports schools in spotting potential, succession planning and talent management, and offers courses designed to develop the leadership skills of practitioners at all levels.

Leadership Courses

Our popular leadership courses cater for primary and secondary specialists at all levels:

  • Future leaders - aimed at those planning to take on their first leadership role.
  • Leaders of Learning – aimed at developing outstanding middle leadership.
  • Outstanding Senior Leaders – aimed at those preparing to apply for senior leadership roles.

National College Leadership Programmes

As a Leadership Development School, Inspire TSA welcomes those seeking placements as part of the National College Leadership Programmes, working to secure the best opportunities to develop you as a leader.

Professional Learning

Professional learning happens at every stage of your career. It is the key to happiness, success, fulfilment, and means we are doing the best for the schools we work in.

  • Teacher training – schools have always played a significant role in teacher training and through the School Direct programme, Inspire TSA recruits, trains and develops outstanding teachers in school-based training, in partnership with local universities.
  • Retraining (TSST) – We provide knowledge enhancement courses for practitioners looking to teach subjects different to their specialism, known nationally as Teacher Subject Specific Training.
  • Continuing Professional Development (CPD) – Inspire TSA works closely with other TSAs and St Paul's own Professional Centre to deliver professional development opportunities for teachers, support staff, governors, local authorities and companies across the south of England.
  • Research & Development - the best teaching is grounded in research and innovation. We invest in developing learning communities, evaluating pedagogy and supporting staff with post-graduate study and action research.

Raising Achievement

As educators, we share the moral obligation to do not only what is best for our own schools but what is best for education.

Inspire TSA has capacity to work with individual schools, academies, local authorities or diocese in leading school improvement and ensuring that together we can achieve the best opportunities for success.

We have a strong track record of success in these partnerships and believe they are some of the most powerful ways to engage in school improvement.

Meet our Leaders

Our Team

Keith Perera

Keith has been at St Paul’s since 2004 and currently is an Assistant Head at the school. His responsibilities in school include being Director of the Inspire Teaching School Alliance and Senior Lead for the Sussex Maths Hub. Keith is fully committed to teacher training and has been involved in various roles throughout his teaching career - at present he is an Associate Fellow at the University of Sussex.

He is proud of Inspire’s role in growing School Direct working with outstanding teachers, schools and universities. One of his biggest achievements is training someone who turned out to be one of his bosses! You could be next…

Vanessa Milne

The Support Manager for the Inspire Teaching School Alliance, Vanessa coordinates recruitment of all School Direct places and other teaching school events and bookings. This will be her third year at St Paul’s Catholic College.

Vanessa is also responsible for administrating the projects and activities of the Sussex Maths Hub, led jointly by St Paul’s and St Richard’s Catholic College, Bexhill. Vanessa comes to the Alliance from a City – based banking/finance background.

Nicky Sage

Nicky is administrator for the Sussex Maths Hub and the Inspire Teaching School Alliance. She will be working alongside Keith and Vanessa in helping to run and develop the two ventures.

This is Nicky’s third year at the St Paul’s Catholic College. Her previous role within the school was as Attendance Officer and prior to that she had a city-based career in Marketing (with a big career break in between raising three children!).

Nicky is really looking forward to getting stuck in to work in this busy and dynamic department.

Our schools

St Paul's Catholic College
Roedean School
Hurstpierpoint College
Warden Park Academy
Ormiston Six Villages Academy
St Joseph's Specialist School & College
St Mary's University College
St Philip Howard Catholic School
St Wilfrid's Catholic School
The Epsom & Redhill Deanery
Sackville School
University of Sussex
Ardingly College
Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Primary School