UISZ, as a day school and residential boarding school, is, above all, an educational community. For this reason, our approach to professional growth and development is made within the context of relationships. 

For the community to be important, we also need to value the individual. Therefore, our approach to professional growth is to learn together, progress, and listen to each other. The UISZ professional growth model aims to move away from accountability in more recent versions of teacher appraisal programmes. Its focus is on individual and community responsibility and inspiring a more significant commitment to student education today and into the future. It provides a framework for staff to Explore, Adapt, Impact! This vision facilitates the ongoing professional growth of our teaching staff to influence and promote a culture of exploration and inquiry, and growth and being adaptive. This results in teachers applying and developing their practice to have impact on student learning. More practically, it aims to do this through four key areas.