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Want to see what our Manchester Lead Meet will look like… check out the highlights of our London Lead Meet in November.

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Get your Manchester tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/step-up-ma...

We’re back…

Check out our updated website…

www.stepupnetwork.uk

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Planning our Future As part of our intentional, strategic pause, our newly formed network committee met in-person with our founder to plan our future. Just over a week ago, our team of committed volunteers came together in the UK’s second city, Birmingham for a day of reflection, review and revision of our plans. Some of us started the day with a breakfast and social catch up before meeting the other members of our team at our strategy day location just a stone’s throw away from Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.

Planning our Future

We’d love for you join us in Manchester in February. Hosted at the Manchester Deaf Centre. You can get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/step-up-ma...

Join us and hear from @elliothahn.bsky.social @weleadwell.bsky.social @garypykitt.bsky.social @tattooedheadteachr.bsky.social + many others

If the @stepupnetwork.bsky.social pad and pencil are out then it's a staff wellbeing survey analysis day for me. Today, it's for King Edward VI Balaam Wood Academy. It's always lovely to read about the impact Elizabeth Wills is having with her staff wellbeing strategy!

Today we had a fantastic day with our new network committee who with our founder, Ben mapped out what our future looks like - watch this space…

We can see you hiding Rachael

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#SteppingUpSaturday

YouTube video by Step Up TV | Step Up Network See what we get up to at our Strategy Day | Behind The Network - Episode 4

Today is our network committee strategy day - a team day where our volunteers will come together to work on our future.

Follow the hashtag #SteppingUpSaturday to see what we get up to.

You can see what we got up to at a previous day here: youtu.be/ncwtFQmrkTU?...

A week today our network committee will be meeting in person to plan our future.

To help them please do fill out the survey: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

This will help us to shape our future. We would be really grateful if you could complete this.

Wishing our whole community and educators across the globe all the very best for the start of the Spring term.

Join us this spring… 🌸 You may have seen our social media posts showcasing the many fantastic ways you can engage with us after our ‘strategic pause’ ends on the 1st of February. We recognise that less is more and we want to focus on providing more succulent information at regular, planned intervals rather than spamming across social media. We will update you in some ways we will do this after our strategy day on 17th January.

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Wishing our whole community and educators across the globe a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2026.

#HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear2026

Join the Leadership Capital Collective Written by Mark Pritchard MAT Director of Education, experienced Headteacher and Leadership Coach Hi everyone. Mark here. I hope you’re all doing very well. I’m reaching out because I have been dedicated to supporting the StepUp network from the outset. I was a speaker at the StepUp inaugural conference and have since supported a number of the fantastic events that have followed.

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Written by Mark Pritchard MAT Director of Education, experienced Headteacher and Leadership Coach Hi everyone. Mark here. I hope you’re all doing very well. I’m reaching out because I have been dedicated to supporting the StepUp network from the outset. I was…

A Year in Review 2025

A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to our work this year. It really means a lot, thank you!

From all of us at Step Up we wish our whole community and the educators across the globe an enjoyable and relaxing Christmas break.

Thank you to everyone who has been part of the ‘Step Up Story’ this year.

📣 WE NEED YOU 📣

Our newly formed network committee wants to hear from you - what do you want from our network moving forward?

Our team is meeting in mid-January and we wish to have your thoughts so we can plan the future of Step Up.

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We are pleased to introduce to you our new network committee who will be steering our network forward.

Their first activity will be conducting some market research with our community.

A great group of people!

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Stepping Up in London – Part 3 Written by Ben Hobbis Founder, Step Up Network CIC Yesterday saw a community of educators come together for the third time in the capital to explore all things leadership development and growing your career in the education sector. An event in the capital is now becoming an annual staple within the Step Up calendar with people travelling from across inner and outer London, the East of England, South East and South West England as well as the Midlands.

Stepping Up in London - Part 3

What a great day it was yesterday at the @stepupnetwork.bsky.social London Lead Meet delivering two workshops on the case for leading #antiracism work in schools over simply a broad notion of #EDI or #inclusion. Great to meet some of my online s/heroes @msybibi.bsky.social Ziggy Moore, Mubina Husain

What a great day we’ve had in London today, thank you to all those involved who made today special!

#SteppingUpSaturday

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And others

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Of course Jess, what a great motto. Look forward to seeing you at the next one!

Good morning all, today is the day #SteppingUpSaturday

Make sure to post about your journeys using the hashtag.

London (and in particular Opogo Education) is ready for you.

If you’re looking for us we’re right next to the Hoxton hotel.

Our journeys are starting ready for our event tomorrow.

We’re looking forward to seeing you tomorrow at Opogo Education

#SteppingUpSaturday

This is your very last chance to get tickets for Saturday - tickets close at 5pm tonight!!! 🎟️

#SteppingUpSaturday

Last chance to get your tickets in London. We will be together in just over a week, we hope you can make it!!!

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Exciting news from the new North West and Yorkshire WomenEd team! 💜

Exciting things coming in 2025/6 - a chance to meet your network team for Yorkshire and North West and join networking/leadership development events in this area.

Watch this space - more details to follow...😊
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Please do share if you can. We hope you can join us!

⬇️ PRICE DROP ⬇️

We’re pleased to announce a price drop for tickets to our London Lead Meet on 8th November.

We’ve listened to feedback that travelling to (and within) London can be pricy. We want it to be accessible for all.

We hope you can join us…

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🍂 We hope you can join us this Autumn 🍂

8/11/25 - London Lead Meet
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20/11/25 - Stepping Up to Headship Webinar
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9/12/25 - Inclusive Recruitment Webinar with The Belonging Effect
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