Schools & Colleges

Are you a school or college?

Are you committed to supporting staff professional development?

Do you aim to provide bespoke CPD to individuals, teams and across the organisation?

Would you like to 'offload' some CPD to an external to reduce the burden and save time?

I can help by working with you to support personal and professional development of your staff in a number of ways and in different areas.

I work with a number of schools, colleges and other educational settings to support a range of personal and professional development. Working with individuals, teams and across the entire organisation.

This might be a one-off session or a longer-term arrangement and can combine consultancy support, professional development, coaching and mentoring.

My work tends to focus on the following areas:

team development
cultural change
leadership development
ECTs
wellbeing

Schools and colleges often draw upon the following services:

Consultancy

I work with schools, colleges and other educational settings on a consultancy basis supporting a range of activity to support the achievement of key priorities as well as taking on activities that benefit from an external perspective.

Examples of work I have undertaken includes:

Development of an organisational people charter
Supporting support for improvement and capability action
Undertaking reviews of governance
Designing Effective 1:1 process
Developing team culture
Developing an effective departmental leadership team
Supporting the growth of a cohesive senior leadership team
Creating a framework for staff and student mental health
Undertaking staff voice reviews

I approach my consultancy work in a collaborative manner, working with the organisation's values and vision and ensuring update and review points are embedded into my work.

My daily rate for consultancy is £575

See my consultancy page for further detail.

Contact me to set up a conversation

Teacher and Staff Development

With a background is teacher education and development, I work with schools, colleges and other educational settings to support staff development in a number of ways and focused on a number of topic areas.

I can provide one off sessions or a programme of development.

To ensure the development has impact and meets the needs of the setting, I work closely with you to ensure the content and approach suits your needs. I also offer alternative, creative approaches such as online sessions with follow up activities, mentoring and group coaching to ensure that the development offer maximum impact and affects change.

Reviewing standard approaches to professional development provides your staff with a refreshed offer that meets individual, team and organisational needs and maximises budget.

Examples of professional development I have provided includes:

Developing a positive classroom culture and climate
Establishing effective questioning in the classroom
The challenges of dual professionalism
Effective assessment and feedback
Using adaptive practice to develop 21st century skills and character
TA development programme
Establishing and maintaining positive wellbeing and balance work-life harmony.
Establishing and embedding effective 1:1s
Leadership development for middle leaders
Leadership development for senior leaders
Creating positive team dynamics...

If you would like to have a conversation with me to explore how I can support your development needs, please email me. I would be delighted to explore how we can work together.

ECT Induction Tutor

Employing an ECT brings a fresh perspective and energy to a school or college, yet many schools/colleges find providing both mentor and induction tutor support for the ECT/s alongside the minimum entitlement can be challenging because the school/college either does not have the staff with appropriate skills and experience or that have the capacity. This burden can result in schools and colleges to refrain from appointing ECTs or when they do having to muddle through.

In such situations, or where a school/college wishes to outsource the induction tutor role, I have taken this responsibility - relieving the school of this and also providing the capacity to effectively and fully support an ECT/s.

When I take on the role of induction tutor, I work closely with the school-based mentor to offer seamless and high quality ECT support, guidance and challenge.

If this would be of benefit to your school/college, please take a look at my detailed induction tutor package and/or email me to set up an informal conversation.

ECT Induction Programme

Imagine having an ECT programme that is specifically designed for your school.

I can work with you to design a two-year ECT programme that not only meets the ITTECF but also aligns with your school's values, vision, context and priorities.

The programme, that is hosted on my course platform enables ECTs to access a module by module programme, track their progress and engage with multimodal learning without having to take full days out from school as this is all online.

The benefit is that the programme can be accessed by other staff who can be directed to engage with specific modules to support their development.

I was approached initially by a special school to write a programme for them as they found the 'standard offer' was not relevant for their contact and that ECTs were not gaining as much as they could from the sessions.

I produced a two-year programme for this school that was highly praised by the appropriate body, school and ECTs alike.

Find out more on my ECT Induction Support page or email me to set up an informal conversation.

Coaching

I define coaching as:

A creative, challenging and thought-provoking process where the coach creates a psychologically safe space for the client to explore, unpick and reflect upon issues and behaviours to achieve ambitious goals and desired outcomes that are personally and professionally transformative.

Coaching is a thought-provoking, dynamic and transformational process and professional development strategy that creates space for those working at any level and with any number of years experience of working in education to explore their personal and professional development, challenges, career trajectory, skills, capabilities, areas for improvement and behaviours.

Engaging in coaching supports you in addressing challenges, achieving your goals, enhancing your performance and reaching your potential by taking a systemic approach that considers perspectives of a range of stakeholders including leaders, colleagues, students and parents and offer new insight and ways of seeing situations that enables you to thrive in your role.

Coaching provides the space for you to further develop your self-awareness, emotional intelligence and ability to be highly effective in your role and to achieve both personal, professional and organisational objectives.

Coaching sessions are a safe space where we work one-to-one to explore, challenge and reflect. It is a space that enables you to focus on you rather then the problem or issue, that in turn, provides you with the tools to apply to any role, situation, group or issue.

It is my role as your coach to offer an appropriate level of challenge, to listen intently to what you are saying and what is left unsaid, demonstrate compassion and care and to raise the bar when you thought you had reached it through using a range of relevant tools, techniques and questions.

Through this process, you will develop the self-awareness, skills, approaches and behaviours that will enhance your practice, behaviours and thinking whilst addressing any limiting beliefs that may be holding you back and ultimately develop the skills to self-coach.

Coaching can be accessed by any individual directly, but can also be offered by the school/college where it is thought that coaching may provide the support, space and challenge to enable the staff member to flourish and thrive irrespective of their role or experience.

Common areas that education professionals bring to coaching are:

Leading change
Developing leadership skills and qualities and exploring leadership styles, values and approaches
Leading a department or team
Developing confidence and over-coming imposter syndrome when taking on a new role
Positively approaching conflict
Developing curriculum
People-leadership
Preparing for a leadership promotion
Developing resilience
Establishing a positive work-life harmony
Managing challenging groups
Juggling multiple roles or dual professionalism.

Find out more about coaching packages here

Mentoring

The EMCC define mentoring as:

“... a learning relationship, involving the sharing of skills, knowledge, and expertise between a mentor and mentee through developmental conversations, experience sharing, and role modelling. The relationship may cover a wide variety of contexts and is an inclusive two-way partnership for mutual learning that values differences”.

Mentoring provides support for individuals at any stage of their career, develop personally and professionally to become more effective within their role. Mentoring sessions provide a space to navigate professional challenges, grow in confidence, and build competence, empowering you to perform at your best.

In our work together, I bring my education, leadership and wellbeing experience and expertise as well as an independent and external perspective to work alongside you in developing key aspects of your practice, mindset and behaviours.

Mentoring is for you if you feel that you would benefit from some guidance and support to develop and perform at the level you aspire to.

People working in education bring a wide range of topics to mentoring such as:

leadership identity and styles
Professional and organisation values and the potential tensions between these
Effective leading people
Establishing a positive work-life harmony
Managing change.
Time and workload management
Career development and progression
Enhancing professional skills and behaviours

Mentoring also be undertaken in teams or small groups working together on an agreed set of topics and areas. This is often a good option for groups such as new Heads of Department, aspiring middle leaders and similar.

To find out more about my mentoring packages and approach visit my mentoring page, here.

OnLine Courses & Recorded Masterclasses

Taking time out from an educational setting to attend a conference or course can be challenging in terms of cost, time and cover arrangements.

To offer a flexible , on demand solution, I have developed a range of online courses and masterclasses to support personal and professional development that can be studied over time and when suitable for the learner. Several of these courses and masterclasses focus on themes pertinent to education, leadership and wellbeing.

You can sign up for the courses online and access learning in bitesized chunks and engage with the masterclasses as and when you can.

Schools and colleges can also sign up multiple staff members and receive a discounted price for this.

Topics include:

Time Management
Establishing Work-Life Harmony
Leading Effective 1:1s
Holding difficult conversations...

The menu changes, but if there is anything that you would particularly benefit from do let me know and it may be something I can develop!

To find out more about online courses and masterclasses visit my courses page, here.

Breathwork

Breathwork support overall wellbeing supporting both physical and mental health.

Breathwork requires no equipment and needs no experience and is completely safe for most people.

Engaging in regular breathwork or developing your knowledge to use breathwork will support your overall health and wellbeing.

The benefits of breathwork include:

In addition to providing fortnightly breathwork sessions for individuals, I offer, bespoke group breathwork sessions for your staff.

These are an ideal addition to your wellbeing offer to staff.

The one-hour sessions can be offered across a number or weeks or during term time for an academic year (or more) at a time and day that suits your school/college.

These take place online and, as such, staff can access the sessions from their office or classroom or from home.

Pricing will vary dependent on the number of staff you have and the numbers of sessions you pre-book.

There is no admin to worry about - Staff will be issued with a code and can book themselves subject to availability.

To discuss establishing a breathwork offer for your school/college please email me and I would be delighted to set up an informal conversation with you.

Alternatively please do share my fortnightly breathwork classes, breathwork courses and parent/child breathwork courses as part of your wellbeing strategy. More information can be found on my breathwork page.