Centre for Transformative Change in Schools (CenTCS)

We’re delighted to share our Annual Summary for 2025-26 which provides an overview of CenTCS activities and achievements this past session. You can download the summary here: CenTCS Annual Summary 2025-26  

During 2025–26, CenTCS has: 

  • Finalised and launched its collaboratively developed Research Compass (see below). 
  • Established three Project Streams to guide shared Centre activity over 2025-26. 
  • Hosted a monthly seminar series showcasing the work of CenTCS Fellows, Associates and International Affiliates. 
  • Developed and delivered an international partnership project, Developing Place-Based Dialogue about High-Quality Education Using the Quality Teaching Model: A Pilot Study for Scotland, funded through the Glasgow Global Partnership Fund, in collaboration with CenTCS Affiliates at the Universities of Newcastle and Sydney in Australia. This included: 
  • Hosting a QTR training event involving local teachers, international researchers, teacher associates from the Centre for Teaching Excellence, postgraduate students and CenTCS members. 
  • Piloting work using the Quality Teaching Model and Quality Teaching Rounds (QTRs) with a Glasgow City Council learning community and community partners. 
  • Secured funding for a new project on Multilingual New Scots, School Leadership and Refugee Language Integration, working with the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts(PI), and School Leaders Scotland. 
  • Developed and strengthened connections with leaders of international peer research centres. 
  • Continued to grow a scholarly community of colleagues from across research and teaching groups within the School of Education. This includes CenTCS Fellows and Associates from across a range of contracts together with International Affiliates and postgraduate researchers. 

 

Developing the research compass. Stimulating our thinking (March 2025): Workshops with Center for Leadership and Diversity (University of Toronto) CenTCS relaunch event International symposium on Professional Learning at Scale. Sharing ideas (April – June 2025): Nominal Group Technique (NGT) with Fellows & Associates Processing NGT ‘items’ with Fellows Initial categorisation of ideas discussed at All Centre Meeting Consideration of both substantive themes and ways of working. Processing and categorising (June 2025): Joint Directors reflect and act on All Centre discussion Use of AI to assist in developing the ‘Research Compass’ narrative Publishing Research Compass.Using the Research Compass to identify project streams (August 2025): Reflecting on individual past projects and imagining future possibilities Listing and synthesising project possibilities Selecting initial project stream foci: Professional learning for transformative change Connections and disconnections in teaching and learning contexts Education in changing times.

First published: 14 July 2026

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