Many school leaders will welcome the introduction of a national network of teaching schools," the association said in a statement.
South-west England and the East Midlands, for example, both have a disproportionately low number of teaching schools.
The Department for Education is going to provide dedicated funding to Teaching Schools to support this work.
Here's my advice: Being a teacher is not only about teaching; schools actively engage parents, carers and families.
The focus on initial teacher training, for example, means teaching schools can design their own training programmes.
"While there are some wonderful teaching schools," he told me recently, "there are some that place students at failing schools with failing teachers to learn how to teach.
He recognises the danger of one school claiming a monopoly on teaching wisdom, and says a collaborative approach represents the best chance of making teaching schools a success.
There are eight RSCs across eight regions in England; rather than intervening directly, RSCs commission teaching schools and other beacons of excellence in education to improve underperforming schools.
The first teaching school alliances were created in September 2011, and there are now around 360 designated teaching schools, with a target of 500.
And Teaching Schools across the country are already forming networks to help other schools develop and improve their use of technology.
The new environment of teaching schools will be a fertile ecosystem for experimenting and spreading successful ideas rapidly through the system".
