Brilliant insight from our Research Lead, Sarah Cottinghatt 👏

🎯 Refining the goal transforms coaching — moving from reflection to a deeper understanding of what drives effective teaching.

Check out this Coaching Cut to see how refining the goal reveals when actions support or overload learning.

HUGE thanks to @chrispassey.bsky.social @olicav.bsky.social @hugheshaili.bsky.social @steplab.bsky.social for amazing thinking and support!

@mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social and I are very grateful to all the Coaching Cutters out there!

Coaching Cut #29 Refine the goal Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching

🎦 Today's Coaching Cut substack is out!

Our logic is...
How can we know what to improve if we don’t know our coachee’s intentions?

Great coaching starts by asking our coachees their goal and helping them refine it!

🔗Watch it here! bit.ly/4n1H4hU

Here's what gets me buzzing about our Bangkok formative action workshop: you'll have that lightbulb moment where everything clicks, but then we actually help you implement it back at school.

Content + change strategy + support.

That's the combo that works.

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Thank you Shane. An honour to be in such a brilliant book!

“Hold hypotheses lightly”

Love this page from @scottinghatt.bsky.social @ @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social in Coaching Walkthrus.

(And you both look like absolute rockstars in the @olicav.bsky.social graphics)

Thanks so much for reading and sharing - we are so so glad you find them useful!

Coaching Cut #28 Point out purpose Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching

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This is among their best Coaching Cuts! Thank you, Sarah, Adam and Liam. If you are a teacher or train a teacher, do subscribe.

HUGE thanks to @olicav.bsky.social @hugheshaili.bsky.social @chrispassey.bsky.social and all our subscribers for your support!

@mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social and I are very grateful!

Coaching Cut #27 Stack the evidence Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching

How do you agree a goal when your coachee doesn’t see a problem?

You share concrete evidence.
But what when one piece doesn't do it?

You *stack the evidence*.

🎥 Watch today’s Coaching Cut for how 👇
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Coaching Unpacked: Episode 10 - Giving Specific Evidence Podcast Episode · EduPulse · 12/09/2025 · 19m

Cracking episode today- if you are interested in how to use evidence effectively in your next coaching conversation, this is well worth a listen.

Thanks @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social @chrispassey.bsky.social and @scottinghatt.bsky.social!

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HUGE thanks for the support of @chrispassey.bsky.social @hugheshaili.bsky.social @olicav.bsky.social and many others!

Coaching Cut #24 Share specific evidence Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching

🔥Coaching Cuts are back!

*Coaches* if you make just one change to your coaching, let it be this:

👉Share specific evidence from the lesson.

It builds credibility.
It engineers insight.
It shows respect.

Here's how with brilliant coach @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social!

🔗 bit.ly/3JNZVzb

HUGE thanks to @jgprofdev.bsky.social for his contributions to this post and ongoing thinking!

A hell of an induction... Reframing how we induct new colleagues

NEW POST!
🔥Starting at a new school? Or inducting new colleagues?

The induction process can be HELL

Find out how we can use 'framing' to turn it into a 'hell of an induction' instead and help colleagues hit the ground running...
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HUGE thanks to those that support this work including @olicav.bsky.social @hugheshaili.bsky.social @chrispassey.bsky.social!

@mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social and I love filming and writing these!

*Non examples*: not just useful in teaching but coaching too!

Understanding what *not* to do can be a powerful way to understand great practice

Check out the final Coaching Cut of the academic year to learn how to harness non-examples in your coaching!
➡️http://bit.ly/4eYvPV9

I've been practising...

Join us today 4pm for ConnectED Live!
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Brought to you by TTC Trust and BeckfootTrust!

HUGE thanks to @olicav.bsky.social @hugheshaili.bsky.social @chrispassey.bsky.social

The brilliant @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social who writes these posts too and of course Matt Findlay, playing our coachee!

Coaching Cut #22 Model in chunks Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching

Unless you know better, you can’t do better.

High-quality models of great teaching practice are one of the most important coaching mechanisms.

But full models can overwhelm.

Check out this week's coaching cut for how, why & when to *model in chunks*!
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Great first day at #EducationFest!
@shaneleaning.com
@mattteachcoach.bsky.social
@olicav.bsky.social
@scottinghatt.bsky.social
@johntomsett.bsky.social

With huge thanks as always to @hugheshaili.bsky.social @olicav.bsky.social and @chrispassey.bsky.social for their support!

@mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social - we filmed it in the end!

Coaching Cut #21 Meta moves Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching

Most coaching focuses on what happened in the coachee's lesson...

But much of what they did to improve happened *after*...

Todays's coaching cut shows you how to reinforce what the coachee does to implement the step!

➡️Watch it here (on hay bales!)
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That is very interesting… The ‘second stage’ of learning is potentially more important so supporting implementation must be important but if they haven’t rehearsed it with feedback will they implement well? Probably depends on the step you’re right and perhaps quality of modelling and analysis?

Finding the putting yourself in the imagined future aspect of premortems really powerful!

HUGE thanks to friends and supporters @hugheshaili.bsky.social @olicav.bsky.social @chrispassey.bsky.social and many others!

The brilliant coach and acting coachee @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social !

Coaching doesn’t end when the conversation does.
Next step *implementation*!

Don't just hope for success - use a premortem!
A premortem flips things: you imagine failure before it happens.

Plan for it. Prevent it.

Check out this week's coaching cut!
➡️http://bit.ly/3Te0jIL

HUGE thank you to @hugheshaili.bsky.social @olicav.bsky.social @chrispassey.bsky.social and many others for supporting this work!

Thank you @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social - always fun to record examples and non-examples with you!

Coaching tip: don't assume they'll just do it

Good intentions fade...

After rehearsal, help coachees make an *execution plan*: a highly specific plan to implement the step!

Behaviour change is devilishly difficult - make a plan to make it happen!

➡️https://bit.ly/4enfdGp

Huge thank you to coachee Olly Cakebread, coach @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social and those that support this work - @hugheshaili.bsky.social @olicav.bsky.social @chrispassey.bsky.social and more!