Shaping Reform, Strengthening Teaching
Engaging the profession to shape and deliver the curriculum and accountability changes ahead.
About the Teaching Commission
Our partners
The Teaching Commission has been made possible through the invaluable support and generosity of our core partners and funders. Their commitment to the future of education has enabled us to bring together leading voices from across the teaching profession to address the most pressing challenges facing educators today.
Why now? What’s changed?
The new Labour Government has made a manifesto commitment to recruit 6,500 teachers to educate the nation’s children. Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, has promised to reset the relationship between government and teachers.
These are important and very welcome changes. They show the Government’s serious commitment to raising education standards.
There is no denying, however, that these aims become harder to achieve with the current crisis in teacher supply.
What will the Teaching commission do?
Building on this foundation, this new inquiry will ask how the profession can be engaged in developing and implementing the reforms so that the professionalism and agency of teachers can be strengthened. It will also seek to identify the resources needed to ensure the new curriculum is taught by teachers who are suitably prepared and qualified to fulfill the goals of the 2028 revised National Curriculum.
What will the commission investigate:
01 How many more teachers will be needed, and in what subjects, to meet the requirements of the revised National Curriculum?
02 What resources are needed so that teachers and leaders can be engaged in the process of reform and feel ownership of the revised National Curriculum?
03 How should the revised National Curriculum be evaluated in order to gauge the success and limitations of the reforms?
04 What role might technologies, including AI, play in supporting the development of the revised National Curriculum?
Other areas of investigation may develop as the Commission begins its deliberations.
What difference will the Teaching Commission make?
The Teaching Commission’s recommendations will be published on this website which will also contain research summaries of the evidence the Commission has considered and case studies of schools which are effectively improving the working lives of teachers and leaders.
The website will become an invaluable tool for schools leaders and teachers. It will be free to access and will be refreshed by emerging evidence and case studies of schools where teacher professionalism is supported, their skills developed and their time is valued.
Our Commissioners
We are proud to introduce the commissioners of the Teaching Commission, a group of passionate and dedicated individuals representing a broad spectrum of expertise across the teaching profession.
The teaching commission is chaired by Professor Mary Bousted.
Support the commission.
- Commission meetings where Commissioners will hear expert witness evidence on these questions.
- Focus groups of teachers and leaders.
- Informed evidence from research and policy on successful implementation of curriculum and assessment innovation.