For the last 7 years, over at Steplab we've been working on a project to codify effective teaching. This essay explores what we've done and what we've learned.

First up, one of the essential ingredients of effective professional development is the provision of concrete, granular teaching 'strategies'. These can be used as examples of 'what good loo...

This blog post explores:

• The challenges Professional Development Leads typically encounter when training new and more experienced coaches
• How the Steplab Coaching Programme supports coaches’ ongoing development

Ahmed’s Story

Ahmed is about to launch Instructional Coaching in his school. He’s attended some online training, and has been working wit...

Every school we know of that has ‘successfully’ implemented Instructional Coaching changes something about their coaching programme every single year. Implementing instructional coaching isn’t a finite challenge that you can eventually complete. Instead we argue that, like teaching, implementing Instructional Coaching consists of ‘persistent challe...

Coaching & Diagnosis

Part 2: Single Steps & Change Sequences

In these posts on diagnosis in coaching, I argue that we should move away from a focus on the next highest-leverage step, and towards the idea of a coaching curriculum.

In part 1, I introduced the two differing cases of Paul and Gillian and argued that:

• Effective coaching is abo...