Darwin Jul 13th - Steplab PD Leadership Intensive

Looking for expert guidance in leading impactful professional development at scale?

This in-depth, targeted training will show you the way, with a focus on developing and implementing an evidence-informed professional development program that combines group rehearsal (deliberate practice), lesson drop-ins and instructional coaching.

Delivered by Steplab’s team of PD experts.

Who is this for?

• Leaders of professional development in a phase, department, school or organisation

• Headteachers or organisation leaders with oversight of PD in their setting

What will I learn?

• How to upskill leaders and unite them around a shared vision for improving teaching and learning

• How to visit lessons and identify meaningful foci for professional development

• How to use group rehearsal (deliberate practice) to develop teaching techniques and coaching expertise

• How to build culture and embed training through lesson drop-ins and coaching

• How to monitor, sustain and improve professional development

How will I learn?

In this highly practical training day, you’ll dig into the theory of effective professional development, engage with models, and script and rehearse training that you can take back and deliver in your school(s).

You’ll also gain access to Steplab’s Implementation Roadmap — a bespoke online course designed to support you and your team to hone your leadership skills and run a PD program that works in your context.

Details

• Date: Monday, July 13th, 2026
• Time: 9am - 4pm
• Location: Moulden Park Primary School, 103 Bonson Terrace, Moulden NT 0830
• Included: All training materials, full day PD, morning tea and lunch

Travelling by car:

Parking is available in the two car parks off Bonson Avenue.

On arrival:

All delegates to Moulden Park School are directed to enter via the front entrance off Bonson Avenue to sign in at the front office. From there, please proceed to the school Hub. Moulden staff will be on hand to assist with directions.

Discounts codes

• 10% off discount for 3 or more staff. Code: 3ormore
• 15% off discount for 3 or more staff, including principal. Code: 3ormoreincprin
• 20% off discount for each Steplab account at your school* Code: steplabaccount 

*For example, if your school currently has a Steplab license for 8 users, you can use this code for 8 attendees (any 8 staff members from your school) to this intensive.

About 

Ollie Lovell

With a broad career spanning teaching roles in both the public and private sectors, as well as higher education, Ollie is a leading thinker on education within Australia and internationally. Ollie constantly thrives to clarify, codify, and communicate key educational ideas for time poor teachers, and has done so through his popular Education Research Reading Room Podcast, his weekly newsletter EdThreads, and his two books Cognitive Load Theory in Action and Tools for Teachers. Ollie is the Director of Steplab Australia, the Senior Researcher within the Crowther Centre, an adjunct lecturer at LaTrobe University, and is currently completing his PhD in self-regulated learning.

Hear Ollie speak with Steplab founder, Josh Goodrich, on the Education Research Reading Room Podcast speaking about Responsive Coaching (Part 1, Part 2)

Rory McCaughey

Rory McCaughey is Steplab Australia's first ever Coaching Development Lead, supporting schools in Australia to realise their potential with Instructional Coaching. Rory is a teacher and leader with over 14 years experience in the classroom, with a Masters Degree in Education and co-host of the popular Educate to Self-Regulate Podcast. Rory is an excellent presenter and has run numerous high-impact trainings for staff around the country, including multiple projects spanning the divide between classroom practice and education research. 

See the full Steplab team here

Pre-learning

A great primer for this professional development is the free podcast between Ollie and Alex Evans. Listen to episode 101 of the Education Research Reading Room Podcast here, or via Spotify, or your favourite podcasting app.

Steplab

Steplab is a professional learning platform for schools that harnesses instructional coaching and data-driven insights to systematically improve teaching and learning. It is the primary tool of choice to drive improvement in many of the top schools in the UK, and within five years has grown to be used in over over 3000 schools, and with over 100,000 teachers. Its content and design team involves Josh Goodrich, Peps Mccrea, Harry Fletcher-Wood and Ollie Lovell.

Cancellation policy

Cancellation and refund requests will be processed as follows:

• 30 or more days before event: 100% refund
• 2 or more weeks before event: 50% refund or ticket transfer to alternate participant for same event (free) 
• Less than 2 weeks before event: ticket transfer to alternate participant for same event (free) or postponement to future event ($50 + GST fee) available