Why us?
Choose our NPQ in Leading Behaviour and Culture and you’ll be joining over 25,000 teachers and school leaders (as of November 23), who have decided on an Ambition NPQ since they were launched in 2021.
On our NPQLBC, you’ll benefit from our evidence-informed curriculum to help you develop a culture of high expectations and good behaviour in your school.
Throughout the course, you’ll get access to the key research on areas including motivating classrooms and creating cultures of high expectations. Rather than spending your time sourcing the latest insights, you’ll instead focus on putting your learning into practice.
Our ‘little and often’ approach means you’ll need on average just one hour per week to engage in our NPQs, helping you to fit your NPQLBC around your timetable.
And with our growing network, you’ll train alongside fellow teachers with similar responsibilities, with content focusing on the key challenges you face in your role.
Plus, on our NPQs there’s no large project at the end. Instead, you’ll sit an ‘open book’ assessment with support via a live webinar and clinics available to help you get the most from your NPQ.
Benefits for you
Become an expert
No matter what your ultimate career goal, this programme offers continuous professional development and a chance to develop specific expertise with tailored feedback and support.
Drive meaningful change
Develop your knowledge in leading behaviour and culture and apply it in practice across your school to engage and motivate staff and pupils and reduce disruption in classrooms.
Create a positive school culture
Learn to think beyond managing individual classrooms and develop school-wide systems and processes to support pupils and get the best out of them.
Train to your timetable
This programme is designed to fit around your busy teaching role and much of the work can be completed in bite-size chunks around your existing schedule.
Build your network
You will complete this programme alongside other teachers working in similar school environments. This gives you a chance to share your experiences and build a valuable support network.
Benefits for your school
Improve pupil outcomes
Pupils are more likely to thrive in a positive and encouraging school environment driven by model behaviour and a consistent approach to rules and rewards.
Build a positive culture
Investing in your teachers’ development will make them feel supported and more satisfied in their work. This will filter down to the classroom, creating happier, more motivated pupils.
Highly flexible delivery
Our new NPQs are designed to fit around your teachers’ existing working timetables and are delivered in short, sharp bursts of learning. Your participants can complete weekly, online units, at a time that suits them.
Create a common knowledge base
All of Ambition Institute’s NPQs are aligned. Teachers and leaders who complete them share a common language and framework to drive behavioural and cultural change across your school.
Share knowledge
Participants will be learning alongside other teachers whose contexts are similar, facilitated by experienced trainers who know and understand your needs.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the NPQLBC programme for?
The NPQ in Leading Literacy is designed teachers who have, or is aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading behaviour and/or supporting pupil wellbeing in your school.
How long does the NPQLBC programme last?
The NPQ in Leading Behaviour and Culture is a twelve-month programme, with a mixture of live, facilitated sessions and self-directed learning.
How does the NPQLBC programme accommodate busy schedules?
The NPQ in Leading Behaviour and Culture is designed to fit around your schedule with a 'little and often' approach that aligns with insights from the science of learning.
Is the NPQLBC programme fully funded?
The NPQ in Leading Behaviour and Culture is fully funded for teachers and school leaders, at eligible schools and organisations in England, by the Department for Education. Find out more about the eligibility criteria in the 'Funding' tab.
Are there any specific requirements to enrol on the NPQLBC programme?
To be eligible for the NPQ in Leading Behaviour and Culture, you must be a serving teacher in a school or eligible organisation in England and have completed your early career training.
Curriculum
Our NPQ in Leading Behaviour and Culture course follows the Department of Education’s National Professional Qualification (NPQ): Leading Behaviour and Culture Framework.
On this programme, you will learn how to:
- create a culture of high expectations across your school
- support the development of a positive, predictable and safe environment for pupils
- assist pupils with complex behavioural needs
- nurture improvement through evidence-based professional development
- put new approaches to leading behaviour and culture into practice in your school setting.
Note: programme content is subject to change.
How you'll learn
Our NPQLBC is designed so you can engage in both live, facilitated sessions and modules that you can complete at any time.
The first conference for the Ambition national NPQLBC spring cohort will take place on Monday 5 February 2024 and will be held in the West Midlands at the CBS Arena, Coventry. Partner cohort locations and dates may vary.
Over 12 months, our NPQLBC includes:
- One full day conference.
- Six courses (each course lasts about six weeks and loosely aligns with a school half term).
- Each course includes six modules.
- Five two-hour clinics (facilitated sessions).
- One two-hour assessment clinic.
- Three communities (1hr15mins group sessions).
The content is delivered through blended learning. This includes 8 hours of in-person delivery (v via 1 full day conference and at least 1 in-person twilight session), a mix of real-time, interactive online sessions and self-guided modules you complete in your own time.
The programme includes facilitator-led sessions with your peer group that focus on decision making. The programme starts with a one-day live conference.
Note: programme content is subject to change.
Locations
Join a central cohort and gain a national network of peers or you can choose an NPQ cohort in your area with one of our regional partners with all the contextual benefits of your area.
With our regional partners, you’ll benefit from our expert curriculum design along with a more tailored experience linked to your local context. Either way, we work to give you the best possible experience.
Find a cohort that’s local to you in our list of partners here.
What our partners can do for you
Ambition Institute provides high-quality content and materials, built on our experience in schools and other learning environments, and our deep knowledge of evidence and practice.
Our partner in your region will put this knowledge into context and manage your experience on the programme, from facilitation to day-to-day support.
The timings and methods of activity, sizes of cohorts and the cost of the programme may vary across delivery partners.
Assessment
Our NPQ courses no longer include a large project at the end. Instead, you’ll sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which you respond to a short case study.
The assessment window starts at the end of the 12-month programme and runs for three months. During this time, you’ll be given an eight-day window to complete the case study.
There are two assessment windows every year, and participants can sit the assessment two times, if they need to.
You need to complete the course to qualify for the NPQ accreditation.
We will offer a webinar and live clinic in advance of the assessment window to support you.
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Funding
Don’t miss out on a fully funded NPQ! Our February 2024 cohorts are currently our last intake to be fully funded by the DfE.
The Department for Education NPQ scholarship funding is available to all state schools and state funded organisations, including those that offer 16-19 age places in England.
DfE-funded scholarships are available for this NPQ for all those who meet the following criteria:
- Have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading behaviour or supporting pupil wellbeing in their school
- Work in a state-funded school or organisation, including those that offer 16-19 age places in England.
Register your interest here to find out if you're eligible.
Extended eligibility.
Organisations now eligible to access scholarships include:
- independent special schools.
- virtual schools (Local Authority run organisations that support the education of children in care).
- hospital schools not already included in other categories of eligible organisations.
- young offender institutions.
If you do not work in an eligible school, the NPQ in Leading Behaviour and Culture costs £899 plus VAT.
Support fund for small schools
The DfE have introduced a new Targeted Support Fund for small schools, to enable them to support their teachers and leader to undertake the NPQs.
This is a grant payment of £200 per participant to settings with 1-600 pupils for every teacher or leader they employ who participates on an NPQ.
This per teacher payment increases to £800 where the employing organisation is a primary school with 1-150 pupils.
Apply
Applications for our spring cohorts are open. Start your application here.
Apply by Tuesday 16 January for a February 2024 start.
Don’t miss out on a fully funded NPQ! Our February 2024 cohorts are currently our last intake to be fully funded by the DfE.
Alternatively, please fill out this quick enquiry form to register your interest and find out more about the programme.
To apply, you must be a teacher who has, or is aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading behaviour and/or supporting pupil wellbeing in your school.
NPQs are not suitable for active Early Career Teachers.
The first conference for the Ambition national NPQLBC programme will take place on Monday 5 February 2024 and will be held in the West Midlands at the CBS Arena, Coventry. Partner cohort locations and dates may vary.
If you have any questions, email [email protected] and a member of our team will be in touch with next steps.