England Conference Resources 2025
Reclaiming professional learning – the ball is in our court….
This page contains recordings for the IPDA England 2025 conference which took place from 10-11 October 2025 in Wolverhampton.
The conference theme was: Reclaiming professional learning – the ball is in our court….
Professional Learning in a wide range of education contexts experienced a variety of challenges since 2010 where performativity and a technicist approach became more favoured.
During this conference, IPDA England explored how we need to reclaim and reimagine professional learning post 2024, to champion agency and bespoke personalisation.
Key themes
- Grassroots sustainable practitioner researcher methodologies
- Transformative Professional Learning Practices
- ‘Done to’ vs ‘done with’
- Agency in the workplace
- Professional Identity
- Developmental professional learning models vs deficit professional learning model
Recordings
Below you can find the audio files and PowerPoint presentations for our key presentations. You can download the presentation PDF or use the slideshows to click through as you are listening. Click the orange play buttons to listen.
Deb Outhwaite: ‘Is the ball in our court? Or has the court been taken away? - The marketisation of professional learning over the last 30 years in the English system, and where this leaves us now’
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David Johnston: Zoos aren’t just for field trips: Examining the value of conservation education in teacher education
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Vicki Evans: A grass roots story - reclaiming professional learning, the ball is in our court!
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