The OTLA 7 (English and Maths) Action Research Programme
The OTLA (English and Maths) programme was delivered by ccConsultancy in partnership
with That Reading Thing and Skills Digital. This was the 7th phase of OTLA projects we delivered on behalf of the Education and Training Foundation and funded by the Department for Education. This was the 4th OTLA phase that we were involved in as delivery partners.
Fifteen clusters researched new approaches for teaching maths and English in the post-16 sector and focused upon driving professional development for staff through encouraging practitioners to use action research to explore and integrate those approaches into teaching, learning and assessment.
Read the project mailouts from the year alongside the final event curated programme.
You can download the full programme anthology (fondly known as the ‘Big Rainbow Book’) with all reports and editorials on the Excellence Gateway’s Practitioner Research + Evidence Portal (PREP).
The Greater Your Storm, the Brighter your Rainbow: Sharing Pots of Gold from the OTLA Programme in Lockdown
Claire Collins + Dr Vicky Butterby
Project Director and Programme Manager
Practitioner Action Research and Professional Wellbeing
Dr Andy Convery
Research and Professional Development Lead
A Sense of Belonging – Some Reflections on Literacy, Identity and GCSE Resit Programmes
Bob Read
Research Group Lead
Practitioners Using Action Research to Develop their Distinctive Pedagogies
Claire Callow
Research Group Lead
Academic and Practitioner-Led Research, We Can Learn From and Inform Both
Gail Lydon
Research Group Lead
Digital Skills are Essential in a Global Pandemic (and Beyond)
David Prinn
Research Group Lead and Quality Lead