If you're reading this, you’ve perhaps explored our thinking on lesson drop-ins before: they're a powerful tool for building the positive culture and confidence around peer feedback that's needed to launch instructional coaching across a school and they provide a useful overview of what's going on in lessons.

But what if lesson drop-ins could a...

Introduction from Ania

At Steplab, we believe that instructional coaching is a powerful tool for school improvement, but that careful implementation is key to making sure instructional coaching has an impact. We get lots of questions from primary heads about the nitty gritty of implementation: how do you find the time for coaching? Who should be ...

Rachel’s Introduction:

Designing an effective coaching programme is complex, and there are lots of hurdles to overcome.

When an instructional coaching programme isn’t working very well, it’s often because coaching has been launched too quickly, resulting in three key barriers):

• there isn’t sufficient buy-in from staff or a shared belief in the pow...

Introduction from Josh

To achieve the desired impact from an Instructional Coaching programme, schools need to get two things right: first, schools need to ensure that coaches are skilled in their jobs, that they are helping teachers work towards high-quality, evidence based teaching goals, and delivering feedback that helps move teachers forwards...

At Woodham, we passionately believe that any whole school change needs to be routed in evidence and be ‘problem orientated.’ For the programme to be successful we knew it required meticulous execution: searching out barriers and overcoming them (Fletcher-Wood, 2022).