Led by world leaders in their field, Masterclasses are a way to dive deeply into impactful areas of leadership and classroom practice,
We have tailored classes that look at some of the more challenging (and exciting!) aspects of leadership and classroom practice.
Each Masterclass is one hour long and includes handouts, tools and prompts to apply to your own practice and leadership and share with your teams in training sessions and team meetings. By signing up to a Masterclass, the impact of your learning will go beyond your own development and positively impact on those around you.
Each year we curate Masterclasses and invite in lead thinkers, tailored to our needs and learning journey. Our focus this year is on building team cohesion, alignment and harmony and upgrading teacher skills in Philosophy for Children and Team Teaching.
All Masterclasses are “live” on Zoom and are also recorded and edited to watch back on and refer to in your own time.
Lead by
Kimberly Mitchell
In this Masterclass, Kimberly Mitchell, a lead inquiry and philosophy consultant, explores how philosophy enhances open-mindedness, empathy, and conversation skills. She offers powerful structures to develop philosophical thinking and promote consistency across schools and classrooms. Attendees will gain insights and practical routines for students and teachers to cultivate critical thinking.
Lead by
Mark Finnis
Mark Finnis, a lead consultant on building relationships, emphasizes the importance of strong connections with students and staff for safe and connected learning communities. Shifting from punitive "behavior policies" to more relational and restorative "relationship policies" aligns with the ethos and fosters a psychologically safe environment for deeper learning. Join the Masterclass to learn successful approaches.
Lead by
Andrea Honigsfeld
Collaborative team teaching offers numerous benefits for students and teachers. It leverages the expertise of two adults, leading to tailored approaches and positive outcomes. However, effective team teaching requires addressing barriers like time constraints and miscommunication. Andrea Honigsfeld, will share key insights for purposeful and impactful team teaching.
Lead by
Andrea Honigsfeld
Once we have a baseline understanding of how to curate successful team teaching, Andrea will guide us as to how we can amplify the impact of team teaching to support and challenge English Language Learners. This will use and apply the skill of team teaching to its highest impact, resulting in accelerated progress, a deeper sense of inclusion and a supportive and challenging classroom.
Lead by
James Aidoo
Creating a cohesive team working towards a shared vision is crucial for success. Valuing and including all team members motivates them to contribute positively. James Aidoo, an experienced coach and consultant, will share insights on fostering harmony, compassion, and empathy in leadership to connect with all staff and achieve shared school visions.
5 Masterclasses for you to learn about more challenging aspects of LPA leadership.
Graham Powell, lead LPA consultant, unpacks some of the most challenging and influential aspects of embedding the LPA in your schools. Each Masterclass takes a deep dive into an area of LPA leadership and includes resources and templates to use with your school teams. Masterclasses in this series are:
Lead by
Graham Powell
Graham introduces a variety of coaching models and theory behind coaching. This introductory unit will give you a strong basis for understanding coaching - what it is and what it isn’t - and why you might like to thread it into your leadership and training palette.
Lead by
Graham Powell
As a first step to coaching anyone, we need to learn to coach ourselves. Graham shares a range of tools and techniques to develop self-reflection and coaching skills, providing not only a useful basis to coach students, but also a useful toolkit to improve our relationships and practice.
Lead by
Graham Powell
Graham walks us through two worked examples, positioning us as the learner to experience how we can build challenge, empathy, reflection and understanding through coaching questions. He also shares key coaching questions to use as part of our day-to-day coaching practice.
Lead by
Graham Powell
Although schools have a shared understanding of what it is they have to teach, there are a plethora of, sometimes overwhelming, lists of how we might want our students to become effective learners in school and beyond. In this workshop you will be helped to decide on a language for learning that best serves your school - and how to implement it and make it stick in day-to-day practice.
Lead by
Graham Powell
Communicating your vision with primary and secondary feeder schools.The disjuncture that exists between the primary and secondary phases can be wasteful of energy and detrimental to progress. Graham demonstrates how he has helped schools work across phases to enable teachers to learn effectively from each other and learners to build on previous good habits in new environments.
By the end of this Masterclass series you will have the tools to embed coaching into your school culture, as well as a strong and cohesive language-for-learning framework. You will have tools to communicate your vision to feeder schools, therefore ensuring a more continuous learning journey for the children in your care.
This series of Masterclasses would be ideal for leaders who are looking to embed and develop coaching and a rich language of learning with their teams. It is also useful on a personal and professional level to deepen reflection and communication skills.
Graham is a former comprehensive school headteacher and senior schools inspector. He embedded the Learning Power Approach (LPA) in hundreds of secondary schools and offers a wealth of ideas about how to implement the LPA within classrooms and, via coaching techniques, across the whole school.
Graham has co-authored several books with Professor Guy Claxton, including “Powering up Your School” and “Powering up Students”.
