MTPT Parental Leave Group Coaching 2026-27

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Empowering group coaching to support teachers, leaders and support staff navigating parental leave.

It can be easy to feel isolated or drifting on your parental leave, particularly if you are used to the bustle and pace of school and the classroom.

The MTPT Project’s Parental Leave Group Coaching programme brings you together with other colleagues on leave to share experiences, motivate yourself with personalised goals, and celebrate as you grow and flourish with your new baby.

In three 60 minute Zoom sessions, we’ll focus on key themes relevant to The MTPT Project community:

  • Transition and Identity: who am I now?
  • Limiting Beliefs: what’s holding me back?
  • Empowering Visions: where do I want to go?

All Coffee cohorts are 09:30-10:30

Dates for the Autumn “Coffee” cohort are:

  • Tuesday 15th September 2026
  • Tuesday 13th October 2026
  • Tuesday 10th November 2026

Dates for the Spring “Coffee” cohort are:

  • Thursday 11th March 2027
  • Thursday 15th April 2027
  • Thursday 13th May 2027

Dates for the Early Summer “Coffee” cohort are:

  • Tuesday 25th May 2027
  • Tuesday 22nd June 2027
  • Tuesday 20th July 2027

Dates for the Mid-Summer cohort, 14:00-15:00, are:

  • Friday 2nd July 2027
  • Friday 30th July 2027
  • Friday 27th August 2027

RECORDED ACCESS Thursday, 16 July 2026 at 09:30 – Saturday, 10 July 2027 at 11:30

Fully-Funded Access

This progamme is fully-funded for state school colleagues in England (teachers, leaders, support staff, central Trust colleagues, and those intending to return to state school settings following parental leave / a caring-related career break.)

BOOK DIRECT ON EVENTBRITE HERE

Workshop places are fully-funded for state-school colleagues in England thanks to support from our regional school, MAT and TSH partners. Please do thank your local organisation on social media or in person for their support.

Emma Sheppard
Founder of The MaternityTeacher PaternityTeacher Project
Inspiring, empowering and connecting teachers choosing to complete CPD on parental leave.

Book in a call with me: www.calendly.com/emmasheppard

www.mtpt.org.uk

Instagram: @mtptproject

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-mtpt-project/

Facebook: @The MTPT Project

Swallow Dell Outreach Team | Exceptional SEND Provision in Mainstream

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MTPT Sustain and Grow Group Coaching Sept 2026 Thurs cohort

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Overview
A six-month coaching programme for parent-educators seeking sustainability and growth in their personal and professional lives.

Working in our schools can feel all-encompassing at the best of times. Add a young family into the mix and life can quickly become overwhelming and stressful. At The MTPT Project, we see too many amazing, experienced colleagues burn out, feeling forced to choose between their careers and their families.

But teaching, leading and supporting in schools can be compatible with family life – even the most family-friendly career choice going!

Join us on our Sustain and Grow group coaching programme this September to take control of your work and home lives.

BOOK DIRECT ON EVENTBRITE HERE

All sessions run live online (zoom) from 3.30pm to 4.30pm

Dates and Session Content 2026-27

As part of an empowering community of parent-teachers in similar situations, we’ll explore six key topics over six sessions:

  • Thursday 24th September – Reducing Overwhelm
  • Thursdsay 8th October – Managing Time and Energy
  • Thursday 12th November – Rationalising the Inner Critic
  • Thursday 3rd December – Living Our Values
  • Thursday 14th January – Strengthening Boundaries
  • Thursday 4th February – Brave Conversations

Sessions will run online (Zoom) on Tuesdays, 15:30-16:30. If you cannot attend the live dates, hybrid or fully recorded access to the programme is available.

Who is the programme for?

Parents of young children who are in teaching, leadership, central Trust or support staff roles in our schools. The programme is suitable for colleagues who have recently returned from parental leave, all the way up to parents with a child aged five or younger.

Our Sustain and Grow group coaching programme is fully inclusive of all parents – it’s not just for mums!

Who is our facilitating coach?

Emma Sheppard is the Founder of The MTPT Project. With twelve years’ experience of teaching and leading in challenging contexts, working both full and part-time as a middle leader and mother to two young children, she knows the emotional, logistical and physical battles that we go through as parent-teachers.

After founding The MTPT Project in 2016, Emma qualified as a coach in 2022, secured her ACC with the ICF in 2023 and has been delivering 1:1 and group coaching since 2017.

Emma creates a calm, open space where coachees feel confident to share and move forwards with their goals in a safe space where challenge is gentle but insightful, and the focus is on making things better.

Workshop places are fully-funded for state-school colleagues in England thanks to support from our regional school, MAT and TSH partners. Please do thank your local organisation on social media or in person for their support.

Emma Sheppard
Founder of The MaternityTeacher PaternityTeacher Project
Inspiring, empowering and connecting teachers choosing to complete CPD on parental leave.

Book in a call with me: www.calendly.com/emmasheppard

www.mtpt.org.uk

Instagram: @mtptproject

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-mtpt-project/

Facebook: @The MTPT Project

Using AI in Primary education settings: facilitation of the DfE support materials 2026

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Join Dan Smith, one of the contributors to the DfE teacher support materials for the safe and effective us of AI in schools, and Ben Conway who will navigate and work through the programme in a collaborative and constructive way to suit your primary school’s needs.

3 online sessions will take place across the Summer and Autumn 2026 terms from 4:00pm to 5:30pm on the following dates:

  • Session 1: Tuesday 9th June 2026
  • Session 2: Tuesday 29th September 2026
  • Session 3: Tuesday 1st December 2026

Who is this course for?

All teachers and support staff in primary education

Resources

Resources that you will be guided through are ‘Using AI in education settings: support materials from the DfE.’

The three sessions will cover the four modules included in these support materials:

Understanding AI in education: module 1

Interacting with generative AI in education: module 2

Safe use of generative AI in education: module 3

Use cases of generative AI in education: module 4

Meet the facilitators

Dan Smith

Deputy Director of Teaching School: Early Career Lead

Previous Computing Hub lead, Dan has been at the forefront of Computing education, including Artificial Intelligence for many years. His work too as Deputy Director of the TSH has seen him lead EdTech initiatives in support of the Early Career Framework in conjunction with Best Practice Network.

 

Ben Conway

Executive Principal, Aspire Academies Trust

Ben Conway is an experienced Executive Principal, headteacher and school leader, with strategic responsibility for curriculum, teaching and learning, and digital strategy at Aspire. He has a strong track record of school improvement and leads work on the effective and ethical use of digital technologies, including AI, leadership development and assessment.

Mental Health Knowledge for Managers 2026-27

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Mental Health Knowledge for Managers is available on a rolling basis and will be undertaken online, at your own pace, in 25 minute blocks amounting to 3 hours total training time.

Please book to the left and full instructions will be shared with you for you to undertake this programme.

Brief Overview

Designed using the latest statistics and real-world scenarios, this fully accessible course brings together seven streamlined modules in one package.

Course modules:

  • Supporting employee mental health.
  • Understanding equality.
  • Managing workplace stress.
  • The mental health conversation cycle
  • Understanding reasonable adjustments.
  • Managing performance.
  • Balancing life and work.

Who is this course for?

Open to anyone in a school community, teachers, leaders, support staff and governors.

Meet the Facilitator

Mental Health First Aid England.

MTPT Sustain and Grow Group Coaching Sept 2026 Tues cohort

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Overview
A six-month coaching programme for parent-educators seeking sustainability and growth in their personal and professional lives.

Working in our schools can feel all-encompassing at the best of times. Add a young family into the mix and life can quickly become overwhelming and stressful. At The MTPT Project, we see too many amazing, experienced colleagues burn out, feeling forced to choose between their careers and their families.

But teaching, leading and supporting in schools can be compatible with family life – even the most family-friendly career choice going!

Join us on our Sustain and Grow group coaching programme this September to take control of your work and home lives.

BOOK DIRECT ON EVENTBRITE HERE

All sessions run live online (zoom) from 3.30pm to 4.30pm

Dates and Session Content 2026-27

As part of an empowering community of parent-teachers in similar situations, we’ll explore six key topics over six sessions:

  • Tuesday 22nd September – Reducing Overwhelm
  • Tuesday 6th October – Managing Time and Energy
  • Tuesday 10th November – Rationalising the Inner Critic
  • Tuesday 1st December – Living Our Values
  • Tuesday 12th January – Strengthening Boundaries
  • Tuesday 2nd February – Brave Conversations

Sessions will run online (Zoom) on Tuesdays, 15:30-16:30. If you cannot attend the live dates, hybrid or fully recorded access to the programme is available.

Who is the programme for?

Parents of young children who are in teaching, leadership, central Trust or support staff roles in our schools. The programme is suitable for colleagues who have recently returned from parental leave, all the way up to parents with a child aged five or younger.

Our Sustain and Grow group coaching programme is fully inclusive of all parents – it’s not just for mums!

Who is our facilitating coach?

Emma Sheppard is the Founder of The MTPT Project. With twelve years’ experience of teaching and leading in challenging contexts, working both full and part-time as a middle leader and mother to two young children, she knows the emotional, logistical and physical battles that we go through as parent-teachers.

After founding The MTPT Project in 2016, Emma qualified as a coach in 2022, secured her ACC with the ICF in 2023 and has been delivering 1:1 and group coaching since 2017.

Emma creates a calm, open space where coachees feel confident to share and move forwards with their goals in a safe space where challenge is gentle but insightful, and the focus is on making things better.

Workshop places are fully-funded for state-school colleagues in England thanks to support from our regional school, MAT and TSH partners. Please do thank your local organisation on social media or in person for their support.

Emma Sheppard
Founder of The MaternityTeacher PaternityTeacher Project
Inspiring, empowering and connecting teachers choosing to complete CPD on parental leave.

Book in a call with me: www.calendly.com/emmasheppard

www.mtpt.org.uk

Instagram: @mtptproject

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-mtpt-project/

Facebook: @The MTPT Project

MTPT Return to Work Workshops 2026-27

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For teachers, school leaders and support staff returning to work after a period of maternity, adoption or shared parental leave.

Returning to work following a period of maternity leave can be a nerve-wracking experience, exacerbated by the emotions surrounding leaving a small baby for the first time.

But with our 90 minute workshop, we’ll get you feeling confident and prepared for your return!

As well as detailing key legal information and sharing expectations of best practice, you’ll benefit from a coaching-style approach giving you the headspace to consider what you need now, the boundaries you can set, what you want your life to look like as a parent-teacher, and the chance to share tips to get organised at home and at school.

If you can’t make our live dates, please explore the recorded version of the workshop.

BOOK DIRECT ON EVENTBRITE HERE

All sessions are online from 09:30 to 11:00

Autumn 2026

  • Thursday, 1st October
  • Monday, 7th December

Spring 2027

  • Tuesday, 26th January
  • Tuesday, 9th March

Summer 2027

  • Tuesday, 4th May
  • Tuesday, 8th June
  • Friday, 9th July

RECORDED ACCESS HERE

This workshop is fully-funded for state school colleagues in England (teachers, leaders, support staff, central Trust colleagues, and those intending to return to state school settings following parental leave / a caring-related career break.)

 

Case Study

As part of a regional Teaching School Hub partnership in the South East, Alban Teaching School Hub are proud to be supporting The MTPT Project’s Return to Work Workshops throughout the academic year 2024-25.

This 90 minute interactive webinar offers colleagues in the South East the opportunity to prepare logistically and emotionally for a confident return to work following a period of maternity, adoption or shared parental leave.

Ensuring the programme is fully-funded for state school colleagues is just one of the ways that Alban Teaching School Hub is addressing recommendations in the recent Missing Mothers report by The New Britain Project and The MTPT Project, which found that only 38% of mother-teachers surveyed were satisfied with the maternity leave and transition support provided by their school.

Fleur Baikie, a secondary middle leader in Hertfordshire attended a Return to Work workshop in February 2025.  Fleur said she enjoyed, “having some time to really think about returning to work without interruption and with the support of Emma (the facilitator) and the other parents at the workshop.”  She loved the “concrete examples” shared and says the workshop has increased her confidence about returning to work.

Find out more about The MTPT Project’s fully-funded Return to Work workshops, including upcoming dates and other regional Teaching School Hub sponsors on Eventbrite.

Emma Sheppard
Founder of The MaternityTeacher PaternityTeacher Project
Inspiring, empowering and connecting teachers choosing to complete CPD on parental leave.

Book in a call with me: www.calendly.com/emmasheppard

www.mtpt.org.uk

Instagram: @mtptproject

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-mtpt-project/

Facebook: @The MTPT Project

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The Ridgeway
St. Albans
Herts, AL4 9NX

Email: cpd@albaneducation.co.uk
Phone: 01727 799560
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