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🎉 Thanks to everyone who joined our #SteplabSummerReads #4 giveaway!

We’re excited to reveal the winner of "Developing Expert Teaching" by Peps Mccrea + the Steplab bundle:

Congratulations to...

🥁 Kevin Cobane

📚 More chances to win next week – stay tuned!

🎉 Thanks to everyone who entered our #SteplabSummerReads #3 giveaway!

We’re excited to announce the winner of "The Scaffolding Effect" by Rachel Ball (+ Steplab bundle):

🥁 Congratulations to Emma Reeve!

📚 Peps Mccrea’s "Developing Expert Teaching" giveaway is now live – don’t miss it!

🎉 Steplab Summer Reads #4

Win a copy of "Developing Expert Teaching" by Peps Mccrea—plus a Steplab bundle (mug, pen & notepad)!

Peps is Steplab’s Director of Education & author of the "High Impact Teaching" series.

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🏆 Winner announced Friday!

Thanks for all the love on our #SteplabSummerReads #2 giveaway! 💜

We’re thrilled to announce the winner of Responsive Teaching by Harry Fletcher-Wood + a Steplab bundle... 🥁

👏 Congrats to Rosanna Raimato FCCT!

📚 Next up: The Scaffolding Effect by Rachel Ball—live now!

🎉 Steplab Summer Reads #3 – Bonus Round!

We’ve got more authors on our team, than weeks of summer—so here’s a midweek treat!

📕 Win The Scaffolding Effect by Rachel Ball—released today!

Plus a Steplab bundle: mug, notepad & pen ☕ 📒 🖋️

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🏆 Winner announced Wed!

🚨 Registrations are now open for the 2026 Certificate in Coaching Leadership – Australia!

This year-long program is designed to equip instructional coaches with the tools, strategies, and confidence to build sustainable, high-impact coaching systems.

👉 Learn more and apply here: buff.ly/KgYFAPW

🎉 Steplab Summer Reads #2
Win Responsive Teaching by Harry Fletcher-Wood + Steplab bundle.

Harry is Steplab’s Director of Training and a globally experienced educator. His book explores six key teaching challenges with research-backed strategies.

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Winner announced Friday!

Thanks for the amazing response to our first #SteplabSummerReads! 🎉

We’ve got 3 lucky winners of Responsive Coaching by Josh Goodrich + a Steplab bundle! 📖☕🖊📒

👏 Congrats to:
💜 Nagina Kauser
🩵 Ian Grieve
💙 @Literacy_Lucy

We’ve DM’d the winners.
Next book drops Monday—stay tuned! 📚

We’re running instructional coaching events across Australia all year!

🔹 Next up: Aug 1 – Full-day Intensive at Bradshaw Primary, Alice Springs, NT – final places left! → buytickets.at/steplab/1677...

🔹 Find out more + book:
Intensives → steplab.co/news/instruc...
Hubs → steplab.co/news/steplab...

🎉 Steplab Summer Reads – Book #1

Win Responsive Coaching by Josh Goodrich, plus a Steplab bundle (mug, pen & notepad)!

Josh is Steplab’s co-founder & CEO, and a former teacher, leader & coaching expert.

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📚 PD fans, this one’s for you!

🏆 Winner announced Friday!

We're delighted to be partnering with @unlockedgrads.bsky.social on their award-winning Leadership Development Programme 🤝

From September, Unlocked participants will be completing the programme on Steplab's professional development platform

Read the full story 👉 bit.ly/4f0l1FN

📚 Steplab Summer Reads is here!

Each week this summer, we’re giving away a brilliant CPD book written by one of our expert team.

Entering is as easy as 1, 2, 3:
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Winners will be announced later that week.
Stay tuned - the first giveaway drops tomorrow!

As the 2024-25 academic year draws to a close...

We just wanted to say thank you to all of our partners 🙏

We've loved supporting so many great teachers, leaders, schools & trusts this year 🎉

We can't wait to see you all in September, but for now...

Happy holidays! 🏖️

Book your visit to a Steplab Coaching Hub 👉 bit.ly/3AODjtU

🚨JUST ANNOUNCED: Autumn dates 🚨

Want to see an evidence-informed PD programme that's delivering impact for teachers & children⁉️

Why not book a visit to one of our Coaching Hubs?

We're delighted to have welcomed 4⃣ new Coaching Hubs to our network for 25/26 🎉

Book now 👇

We're delighted to introduce Kingsbridge Primary School - part of Education South West as our newest Coaching Hub 🎉

Read how their partnership with Steplab has transformed their PD offer, improved teaching and increased staff morale 🚀

👉 bit.ly/44tnEfT

In the South West⁉️

Want to get 2025-26 off to a flying start⁉️

Eager to accelerate the coaching expertise in your school⁉️

Then join our Instructional Coaching Intensive:

📍 Exeter
🗓️ Fri 12 September 2025
🎫 bit.ly/4lsviMZ

See you there 👋

Book a demo 👉 steplab.co/uk/book-a-demo

One of our Coaching Development Leads will show you the Steplab platform and explain how we can help supercharge teaching in your school next year

We've got everything you'll need to lead and implement an effective professional development programme in 2025-26 🚀

And it's not too late for us to help‼️

Simply:
💻 Book a demo (link in comments)
🖋️ Sign-up
🌴 Sit back & enjoy your summer break

We've got you covered 👊

Why do school and trust leaders partner with Steplab 🤔

⌨️ Responsive team
❓ Full and in-depth responses to questions and queries
📈 Scaleable professional development model
🗣️ Emphasis on modelling, practice and rehearsal
🏫 Change sticks with teachers

Responsive Coaching applied to leading within a MAT “We don’t coach performance. We coach people.” – Josh Goodrich There’s a growing tension in system leadership: the need for consistency without conformity, precision without prescription. Now…

Recently, I've reread the brilliant Responsive Coaching by Josh Goodrich from @steplab.bsky.social and had some reflections on how some of the ideas are relevant for MAT leadership.

Have a read here: researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/07/08/r...

What an incredible two days in Leeds 🎉

Today we explored how leaders can design & deliver an impactful PD programme

We've had incredible feedback: "The most effective framework for running effective PD I've ever seen"

Up North to down South - we go again in Kent on Friday!

What a day in Leeds! 🚀

1⃣0⃣0⃣+ teachers & leaders receiving intensive and high-quality training on instructional coaching

But don't just take our word for it 👉 "Wow what a day! The most engaging PD I have ever had!"

Expertly facilitated by Ania Townsend and @jgprofdev.bsky.social 🗣️

Steplab's PD model and platform offers schools professional development that really works 🚀

Check out just some of our real world impact 👇

Why do leaders love Steplab?

🔖 Bespoke PD curriculums
📽️ Extensive video models
🪜 Granular and achievable next steps for teachers
👓 Study modules
📈 Powerful data and analytics to track implementation and identify priorities
🤝 Incredible support from the Steplab team

Receiving loads of messages about registering your ECTs? 💻 (You should!)

But what have you got planned for the rest of your team's PD? 🤔

Steplab gives you all the resources, tools and support you'll need to help all your teachers - at every career stage - get better 🚀

We don't normally post on a Sunday, but we're too excited not to...

Tomorrow marks the first day of our Steplab Institute summer training events:
🗓️ 7 days
📍 London, Leicester, Leeds, Kent, Swindon
👩🏫 700+ teachers, coaches & leaders

We can't wait - see you all there 👋

Instead of telling a teacher what good looks like, why not show them?

We've got hundreds of video models on our PD platform, ensuring our users have access to high quality models of excellent practice 📹

They include this clip of Neena Sharma celebrating student success 👇

Did you know that you can cohere your entire staff PD programme with Steplab❓

Acorn Education Trust started using Steplab with their ECTs, but have since built a coherent, responsive and impactful PD programme for all their staff using Steplab 🚀

Full story 👉 bit.ly/4lfEzIg

⌛️ Time is running out...

This is your LAST CHANCE to get tickets for our forthcoming Leading PD Intensive in London! 🚨

We've got a handful of tickets left and sales close tomorrow at 5 pm... 🎟️

Book now 👉 bit.ly/464f0pe

It's going to be an INCREDIBLE day! 🚀