PD Leadership Intensive with Josh Goodrich - Melbourne

What does it take to sustainably improve teaching at the school or system level? What do the best schools and multi-school organisations across the world do to move teaching forwards? What are the principles of teacher development derived from the most up-to-date research? Further, what has Steplab learnt through working with over 16,000 schools and 200,000 teachers globally about what really helps teachers improve?

Join the UK’s Steplab’s co-founder and CEO, Josh Goodrich, alongside Steplab Australia’s Director, Ollie Lovell for a day of in-depth professional learning designed for those leading and managing teacher development at a school or system level.

In this PD, attendees will engage in a deep dive, exploring how to:

• Collect high-quality observation data.
• Identify progress already made by teachers across a school or system
• Diagnose high-leverage pedagogical priorities from the many available options
• Deliver targeted and effective PD at the whole-school level and simultaneously build collective teacher efficacy
• Reinforce these practices over time to embed teaching improvements
• Strategically use data to track and improve teaching and learning.

This PD is designed to accelerate your confidence and expertise to run effective professional learning, regardless of your leadership level, from department or year level, to campus, school, or even system-wide.

Every insight throughout the day will be clearly and concisely communicated and demonstrated, with lots of opportunities for rehearsal and consolidation provided.

You do not need to be a Steplab user or school to attend this PD and all principles and practices shared within the PD are entirely applicable to a wide range of Instructional Coaching approaches, both with and without Steplab.

*An action step is a granular, reheasable, high-leverage action that a coachee can take to increase the learning in their classroom.

Details

• Date: Tues 19th May, 2026
• Time: 9am - 4pm
• Location: Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School, 17 Leslie Rd, Essendon VIC 3040
• Included: All training materials, full day PD, morning tea and lunch

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.

A great primer for this professional development are the two free podcasts between Ollie and Josh. Listen to episode 74a and 74b of the Education Research Reading Room Podcast here, or via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcasting app.

Testimonials

Following the a prior Intensive, prominent educators Lee Musumeci, Toni Hatten-Roberts, and Rebecca Birch had the following to say:

"We have reviewed many coaching frameworks in search of the most effective way for our coaches to develop instructional practice in classrooms. Attending the Steplab Instructional Coaching PL as a leadership team has left us in no doubt about our implementation of Steplab as our key strategy to develop teaching and teachers. Our instructional coaches now have a consistent language and fine grained, actionable steps to support teachers in their instructional practice. This is essential PL for any leadership team looking for school wide consistency. A clever blend of theory and practice will leave you with both the knowledge and skills to return to your school tomorrow and improve instruction."

• Lee Musumeci, Principal, Challis Community Primary School

"The Steplab (coaching) intensive was truly inspiring! The presenters were engaging and on point. The day provided a great mix of understanding the evidence that underpins Instructional Coaching, as well as practical sessions throughout. Each step was modelled by the presenters and as attendees we were involved in ‘deliberate practice’ of the key routines that make up the stages of being a highly effective coach."

• Toni Hatten-Roberts, Pedagogy Coach, Coglearn

"The Steplab intensive was a brilliant springboard for bringing a coaching program to my school. The day was comprehensive and structured in a way that enabled participants like me to apply key concepts straight away. What I loved was that the presenters balanced the practical with the human side of sustainable and effective coaching."

• Rebecca Birch, Director of Research & Practise, Queenwood

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 

Josh Goodrich

Josh Goodrich has been working in and with schools for over a decade with experience as an English teacher in both London and Thailand, as an assistant principal, a national lead for professional development for over 50 schools in the Oasis Trust and, more recently, the as founder of Steplab, now working with over 100,000 teachers worldwide to improve teaching and learning through instructional coaching. The creator of the concept the term Responsive Coaching, and author of a forthcoming book of the same name, Josh is considered by many to be the leading authority on Instructional Coaching in the world.

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 strives 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 partners with schools across Australia to design and sustain high-impact professional development, providing ongoing support throughout the year. He is a teacher and leader with 14 years’ classroom experience, holds a Masters in Education, and co-hosts the Educate to Self-Regulate podcast. He has delivered high-impact training for staff around the country, bridging classroom practice and education research.

See the full Steplab team here

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