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A CPD-focussed community which uses some or all of the CPDCentral features to ‘crank up’ the collegiality in the community. If I am a potential member of a CPD community, there are a number of benefits:

• I introduce myself just the once and can then take part in several CPD communities
• I can upload an item and share it across across several appropriate CPD programmes / communities
• it standardises the way I engage with CPD on Glow and removes some of the barriers to collegiality

For CPD community facilitators, there are benefits too:

• it cuts down time on footering with Glow web-parts and lets you concentrate on the CPD
• the I-intend system helps promote real, evidenced impact from your all hard work; “if it’s not happening in the classroom, it’s not happening” – Richard Elmore
• it increases interaction; “lurking is not a collegiate activity” – Con Morris

If you want to register for / learn more about CPDCentral affiliation, you can find out more on (you’ve guessed it!) CPDCentral!

What is CPDCentral?

The CPDNet community is for members of the CPD Network in Scottish Education. It uses Glow as its collegiate toolset. To check you are fully registered:

1. Make sure you have your Glow username and password handy
2. Check to see if your picture appears here.
3. If it does, go straight to the CPDNet home page and start sharing with CPD Network colleagues
4. If your picture doesn’t appear, add it using this handy, online form
5. We keep a special eye out for CPDNet colleagues, but email cpdcentral@educationscotland.gov.uk if you want to be on the safe side
6. Wait! We’ll email you as soon as we can.

The CPD Network is a group of colleagues who lead and manage CPD in their local authorities, universities and national organisations. It is supported by members of the National CPD Team, who currently arrange the thrice-yearly meetings and facilitate CPDNet, the community on Glow.

While in its early years the main focus was on supporting the local authorities and the universities, its reach has broadened to include colleagues from EIS, SLS, SQA Academy, HMIE, LTScotland area advisers, representatives of ACTS, GTCS and many more organisations that provide CPD for Scottish educators.

It has its own professional community on Glow; CPDNet. See the ‘Change here for…‘ section of CPDCentral for more details on how to take part.

If you want to find out more about the CPD Network in Scotland, contact Margaret Orr on cpdanswers@ltscotland.org.uk

Welcome to CPDReflect

CPDReflect is an online toolkit for reflecting on educational practice. Most CPD managers will know of CPDReflect from the discussions on the CPD network. Have a look at the 5 things you should know about CPDReflect before you go any further.  Here are the additional features offered to a CPD manager in a Scottish local authority:

1. you can approve examples of practice added by your colleagues at local level only.
2. you can add a local framework for use in your authority, eg an local authority improvement plan or a role-specific framework. This can then be illustrated with examples of interesting practice. All your colleagues can study them, search them and even add their own practice for others to see!
3. you can identify yourself as a CPD manager on sign-up. Remember, you can get support at any time from Con Morris of the National CPD Team.
4. There is a CPDReflect users group on Glow. This will have more information on the creative ways that CPDReflect is being used throughout Scottish education.

Click here to visit the CPDReflect user group

Click here to go straight to CPDReflect

If you can improve on this advice, please leave a comment, thanks!