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  • TransformED NI: Transforming teaching and learning: a strategy for Educational Excellence in Northern Ireland

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    • Curriculum and learning, 
    • Raising standards and school improvement

    TransformED NI: Transforming teaching and learning: a strategy for Educational Excellence in Northern Ireland

    TransformED NI outlines a comprehensive strategy for the transformation of teaching and learning in Northern Ireland. The strategy focuses on the core areas of curriculum, assessment, qualifications, school improvement and tackling educational disadvantage. Reform in each of these areas will be underpinned by significant investment in high-quality teacher professional development.

    TransformED NI Strategy

    TransformED NI Executive Summary

    In April 2024, the Department published the TransformED Delivery Plan which translates the strategy’s vision for educational excellence into actionable steps. It sets out a clear delivery approach, key delivery partners, indicative timescales and estimated costs to ensure effective implementation of each of the actions within TransformED.

    TransformED Delivery Plan

    The key elements of the strategy have been summarised as a ten-point plan for educational excellence, which aims to bring a new drive and coherence to the improvement of our system.

    Each of these ten strategic commitments aims to learn systematically from the most effective and fastest improving school systems in the world and to tackle the weaknesses currently identified within our system.

    TransformED NI Ten Point Plan

    The Department of Education hosted the TransformED School Leaders’ Conference in May 2025. The conference focused on key areas within the TransformED NI Strategy, including curriculum, assessment, accountability, improvement and professional learning.

    TransformED School Leaders’ Conference

    A TransformED magazine has been produced for school leaders and teachers, to help increase understanding and provide more information on key concepts within the TransformED strategy:

    TransformED magazine - Issue 1

    TransformED magazine - Issue 2

    TransformED magazine - Issue 3

    Literacy Guidance

    Literacy Guidance

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