How retrieval practice can be embedded into classrooms using 10 principles of CPD leadership

Alex Beauchamp, Lead Practitioner, Hunter’s Bar Junior School, UK; Expert CPD Adviser, Teacher Development Trust, UK What’s more ironic than continuing professional development (CPD) on retrieval practice that gets forgotten? This article recounts the journey that the teaching staff at Hunter’s Bar Junior School in Sheffield went on over a three-year period of embedding retrieval practice across the curriculum. Retrieval practice is now so deeply embedded at the school that other schools in Sheffield are benefiting from the expertise that is offered. Each CPD programme over the three-year period used Thomas Guskey’s ‘five critical levels of evaluation’ (2014). Building evaluation milestones into initial CPD design is recommended if schools want to assess how CPD ideas are spreading throughout the school and transforming teachers’ thinking and habits. Using the EEF’s ‘A school’s guidance to implementation’ (Sharples et al., 2019), the school defined a clear vis