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Supported by the Teacher Development Fund, The Forge’s Teaching Things Differently project set out to explore whether photography can support children’s progress in creative writing. Find out what they learned through this innovative programme, partnering with artist practitioners and teachers across seven schools in the North East. 

How does developing teachers’ digital art practice support children’s writing? This is the question that the Real Ideas Organisation set out to explore with teachers from the Learning Academies Trust in Plymouth. Find out what they learned together through their joint Pens & Pixels project, supported by the Teacher Development Fund.

Teachers and artist practitioners involved in A Child’s Eye View reflect on their learning journey and the Teacher Development Fund’s impact on their practice. 

The Teacher Development Fund’s Cohort Learning Programme brings together teachers, artist practitioners and school leaders across projects to share their progress and challenges. TDF Associate Greg Klerkx tells us how this programme helps nurture a thriving community of practice.

As we publish the headline findings from our audit of funding towards Black or minoritised community-led organisations, Kirsty Gillan-Thomas and Nina White in our Evidence and Learning team reflect on the process and share their learning.

After a period of making emergency grants during the first lockdown, we reopened the Arts Access and Participation Fund in November last year with a number of changes. Ushi Bagga, Head of Programme – Arts, provides more context for these changes and outlines next steps.

Colleagues from the Teach-Make partnership discuss their programme working with teachers from across seven schools in Coventry using arts-based approaches within the context of real world problems to support outcomes in English, Science and Mathematics.

Colleagues from Essex Music Education Hub, Chelmsford Teaching Schools Alliance and London Music Masters share some of the challenges of delivering an EYFS programme during the pandemic and the opportunities that arose to rethink and reshape the project in response to the emerging context.

Johanne Clifton, Director of Curriculum and Virtual Learning for the Elliott Foundation and TDF Advisory Group Member, looks back on what we have learned through the pandemic and how the arts can create new and innovative opportunities for teaching and learning.