Tapestry Partnership

“Weaving the threads of education”

Tapestry is one of Scotland’s key providers of Quality Career-Long Professional Learning. All of our programmes for teachers have been presented to the General Teaching Council for Scotland for Professional Recognition and are benchmarked at SCQF Level 11.

Tapestry works in partnership with Scotland’s local authorities and schools to complement existing good practice and develop programmes of study which are collaborative in nature and build a “whole-school approach”. Some 30 of Scotland’s local authorities have worked with Tapestry in the progression of programmes and all local authorities have attended Tapestry National Conferences to learn from educational world-leaders such as Professors Jerome Bruner, Howard Gardner, David Perkins and Sir Tim Brighouse.

“Tapestry is a change agent, a positive force for effective innovation and creativity in education and platform for world leading new ideas in Scottish schools” = Dr Keir Bloomer

All Tapestry programmes have Key Advisors, who are either nationally or internationally recognised leaders in the field, for example Professor Dylan Wiliam and Mark Church from Project Zero at Harvard University. Professor Graham Donaldson will be the Key Advisor in a new programme which is planned for 2019. All programmes have a proven research basis and each programme is written to meet the specific needs of a local authority or school.

Tapestry offers the following Leading Learning programmes – Improving Teacher Professional Judgement, Improving Pedagogy, Making Thinking Visible and Leading Learning in the School – Through the Lens of Middle Leadership. These programmes for teachers carry GTCS Professional Recognition. In addition, Tapestry offers programmes for all those who work with children and young people e.g. Music Instructors, Early Years Workers, Support for Learning Workers/Assistants and Community Learning and Development Officers/ Workers.

An important part of Tapestry’s mission is to ensure that there is a collaborative approach to the planning and delivery of each programme. Initial strategic preparation takes place to ensure that a meaningful partnership takes place. All programmes are evaluated by the participants and there are qualitative and quantitative Interim and Final Evaluations produced for each local authority or school. These evaluations demonstrate the impact of the programmes on classroom practice and involve the teacher’s voice, the whole school approach and above all, the voiced of the pupils. These evaluations also shape the continuous and ongoing improvement of all Tapestry programmes.

Tapestry is honoured to be a recipient of the GTCS Professional Learning Award for Organisations and will constantly strive to develop in its practice.

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