Denise Inwood

Denise Inwood

Denise Inwood is the founder and managing director of BlueSky, beginning the company in 2001. Denise started teaching in 1984, and was a senior leader for seven years. At BlueSky, she thrives on Research and Development, spending much of her time working on ensuring that BlueSky is stepping ahead to support their schools into the future. 

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Schools want to get CPD right, but when you take into account personnel, timing and funds, this can be an area of difficulty. Here, BlueSky MD Denise Inwood answers some frequently-asked questions on the topic of teacher CPD.

1. Is continuing professional development (CPD) in schools becoming more important? If so, why?

CPD has always been an important and central part of the development of any good teacher, precipitated by reflective practice. Teaching is a learning profession; for an educator to develop the resources and strategies to which they need to respond (with an infinite number of variables) on a daily basis, professional learning needs to be part of their daily practice. Professional learning ranges from the more structured and generic to the ‘on the job’ learning that is internalised through reflective practice.

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