Steplab US Flagship School Program

Become a flagship Steplab school in the US and join thousands of schools and hundreds of thousands of educators across the world who are working with Steplab to build a professional development program to transform teaching in your school.

You’ll have access to our comprehensive package of support to train your leaders, coaches and teachers. This year-long program will support you every step of the way. 

“It’s unimaginable thinking about doing instructional coaching without access to Steplab’s suite of tools to guide the coaching process…. I have been supported through face to face training and working with colleagues on group calls to plan and deliver a training programme that fits our context to train expert teachers to become coaches…our coaches are feeling empowered that they are making a difference to teaching and learning in their subject areas.”

Colin Riddell, Holly Lodge Girls School

Work with a Professional Development expert to design an implementation plan for your context:

• 1.
  We’ll explore your school’s culture and training needs
• 2.
  Identify how to harness existing strengths and expertise
• 3.
  Identify the training you and your staff need to become a flagship school
• 4.
  Set manageable and achievable goals

Learn how to build a positive open-door culture in your school using Steplab’s drop-in feature:

• 1.
  Explore why drop-ins are so important
• 2.
  Learn to link drop-ins to a PD focus
• 3.
  Define what makes a great drop-in
• 4.
  Practise writing lesson drop-ins

Work with a PD expert to dig into your drop-in data:

• 1.
  Explore the impact on school culture
• 2.
  Discuss what your drop-ins tell you about staff’s knowledge and skill
• 3.
  Decide on the next steps for implementing Steplab

Learn to run group deliberate practice and rehearsal:

• 1.
  Explore why rehearsal matters
• 2.
  Learn how to encourage rehearsal with your staff and overcome barriers
• 3.
  Learn how to plan and lead an impactful group rehearsal session

Build school systems to ensure coaching happens:

• 1.
  Explore how and when to train your coaches
• 2.
  Learn how to ensure quality coaching happens
• 3.
  Learn to analyse trends in coaching data

5 coaches per school with more places available upon request (see full program)

Follow-up call - support, QA and engagement in coaching

Work with a PD expert to dig into coaching data:

• 1.
  Learn to quality assure coaching
• 2.
  Consider how to increase engagement and consistency
• 3.
  Co-plan the next phase of your coaching programme

Optional: Custom playbook support with feedback to help design your own teaching playbook

Build a custom teaching and learning playbook on Steplab by:

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  Developing hypotheses about common learning problems in lessons
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  Creating a custom sequence on Steplab
• 3.
  Using Coaching and PD to embed a sequence