Transforming Professional Learning - A Conversation with Prof. Rachel Lofthouse

It is increasingly clear that recruiting, developing and
retaining teachers is a very real issue around the world. Dr.
Rachel Lofthouse is at the forefront of thinking through how we
might be able to address some of these challenges.


Rachel is the Professor of Teacher Education in the Carnegie
School of Education at Leeds Beckett University. She has
established the Research and Practice hub, CollectivED: Centre
for Coaching, Mentoring and Professional Learning.


Rachel’s research interests focuses on the transformation of
professional learning through partnerships of scholarship and
practice development. She is keen to find out how educational
workplaces can both offer, and constrain, professional learning,
with a current focus on coaching and lesson study and the
inter-relationships between practice, well-being, professional
learning and leadership. 


We also talk about Rachel's recent involvement in the Reimagining
A Positive Direction for Education (RAPIDE) project designed to
understand through narratives underline the enormous energy of
educators to adapt to external disruptions.


Social Links


X: @DrRLofthouse


LinkedIn: ⁠@rachel-lofthouse⁠