Adam Robbins

"Just quickly copy that down class." Words spoken by every teacher, yet we all know copying is often pointless.

What if there was a better way?

One that didn't rely on lots of extra planning, just some simple tweaks.

Join me to find out how www.eventbrite.com/e/1848269988...

What the heck is coaching anyway? Steven, a science teacher, meets with his coach. He is praised for his recent lesson, then told what to improve. His coach, a more experienced science teacher, models the technique and asks Steven …

Hey #edusky do you do coaching in your CPD?

But do you do coaching the way I do coaching?

New blog: What the heck is coaching anyway?

adam-robbins.com/2025/10/19/w...

I hope you already listen to They Behave For Me

This starts in about a month

Fair enough. That's not always possible given the geography etc.. I do always recommend people change school before they leave the profession though.

Begins in about a month

Stealth Improvement: How One Teacher Can Change the Teaching Approach of a School Buy Unlocking Teacher Development Recently I’ve been engaging with a few American teachers via social media. These colleagues are trying to change their teaching practice to become more evidence-in…

Hey #Edusky

Seeing the work American teachers like @mrzachg.bsky.social @blakeharvard.bsky.social are doing trying to fight against an ideological gridlock of the American education system it got me thinking:

New Blog👇
adam-robbins.com/2025/10/05/s...

Quick-hitters 6: Name the rule This is a series of Substack posts designed to outline a single concrete action teachers can take to solve a common problem. It is probably not my idea, but might help.

New Substack post on a simple change in the way to give students sanctions that I saw last week.

open.substack.com/pub/mrarobbi...

If you have read Unlocking Teacher Development and enjoyed it then I would really appreciate it if you could write a short Amazon review. As a self published book it's never going to be top of the charts so reviews really help establish its authenticity. ,🙏

Hey #edusky

Excited to announce the launch of this years Middle Leadership Mastery online course.

An interactive online course designed to support middle leaders with improving their knowledge of key aspects of middle leadership.

Please share
www.eventbrite.com/e/1699247969...

Hey #edusky

Excited to announce the launch of this years Middle Leadership Mastery online course.

An interactive online course designed to support middle leaders with improving their knowledge of key aspects of middle leadership.

Please share
www.eventbrite.com/e/1699247969...

link here www.eventbrite.com/e/1604485472...

This is on Thursday. A few tickets left, sales close 2:30 BST

The hidden world of teachers 2: The greatest sin is certainty. This blog is a sort of sequel to last weeks blog on Graham Nuttal’s hidden lives of learners. One of the privileges of my work as a leadership coach has been seeing how differently people res…

New Blog

Expanding last weeks ideas of Hidden Worlds.

The greatest sin is certainty

adam-robbins.com/2025/09/21/t...

The hidden world of teachers 2: The greatest sin is certainty. This blog is a sort of sequel to last weeks blog on Graham Nuttal’s hidden lives of learners. One of the privileges of my work as a leadership coach has been seeing how differently people res…

New Blog

Expanding last weeks ideas of Hidden Worlds.

The greatest sin is certainty

adam-robbins.com/2025/09/21/t...

So You’ve Had Some Bad INSET? What’s Next? We have all been there. A long day of PowerPoints, too many voices competing for time, and you leave feeling more exhausted than inspired. You did not choose the programme, and you cannot control i…

Good to find out I was tapped!

Thanks @teachertapp.bsky.social

So You’ve Had Some Bad INSET? What’s Next? – Adam Robbins Education share.google/YVTzX5yefQhp...

Thanks I write them when I see a lesson that needs that technique.

Thanks Paul 🙏

No but it sounds like my kind of thing. Probably should have read it before writing Unlocking Teacher Development 🤣

THE HIDDEN LIVES OF TEACHERS The work of Graham Nuttall is legendary. His book The Hidden Lives of Learners is still worth returning to, because it shows how careful observation uncovered truths that only later became mainstre…

New Blog

Building on the legend of Graham Nuttall: The hidden lives of teachers. May be of interest to people who have read blogs on Nuttall or fans of Sarah Cottinghatt and Co’s Cognitive Coaching.

adam-robbins.com/2025/09/17/t...

48 hours left to sign up

#edusky

Got some new middle leaders in your school?

Aspiring to be a middle leader yourself?

Join me next Thursday for a free webinar looking at some of the fundamentals of middle leadership.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stepping-u...

Continuing last years series open.substack.com/pub/mrarobbi...

Thanks Jo

#edusky

Got some new middle leaders in your school?

Aspiring to be a middle leader yourself?

Join me next Thursday for a free webinar looking at some of the fundamentals of middle leadership.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stepping-u...

So You’ve Had Some Bad INSET? What’s Next? We have all been there. A long day of PowerPoints, too many voices competing for time, and you leave feeling more exhausted than inspired. You did not choose the programme, and you cannot control i…

NEW BLOG

So you've had some bad INSET? What's next?

adam-robbins.com/2025/09/06/s...

If I'm being honest I find the 6 week holiday hard.

I know it's unpopular but the last week or so I just get restless.

Want to get stuck back in!

Planning inset days? Read this...

Making the juice worth the squeeze: September INSET days This blog is a fleshed out version of my thread on Bluesky.  When the most recent Teacher Tapp survey was released, I was not surprised by the result. It looked at opinions on September INSET …

Hey #edusky #uked

Planning inset days?

Making the juice worth the squeeze: September INSET days – Adam Robbins Education share.google/C5i9f6jrdVf0...

Why Is Improving Teaching So Difficult — and What Can We Do About It? “Every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better.” Dylan Wiliam’s quote is now ubiquitous in teacher development circles and rightly so. Th…

If I had one wish for the upcoming academic year it would be that schools pay more attention to the way they train their staff and avoid falling into the common pitfalls that waste time and money.

adam-robbins.com/2025/06/24/w...