Steplab Instructional Coaching Intensive - Sydney

Presented by UK's leading thinker and writer on instructional coaching, Josh Goodrich, alongside educational experts Ollie Lovell and Harry Fletcher-Wood, and educational researcher Dr. Sam Sims, the Steplab Instructional Coaching Intensive, Sydney, will provide in-depth and targeted training on how to be a world class instructional coach. 

The day will begin with an introduction to the research base for Instructional Coaching by Dr. Sam Sims. Following that Josh, Harry and Ollie will dive deep with attendees, covering in detail how to:

• collect high quality observation data
• identify progress already made by your coachee
• diagnose an effective next step
• give targeted and effective praise as a starting point and springboard for a productive coaching conversation
• propose an action step* to your coachee in a way that helps them to feel inspired and motivated to take on the challenge
• model teaching strategies in ways that communicate their core components
• support your coachee to effectively plan how to implement their action step in the classroom
• run rehearsal with a coachee in a way that helps them to begin to build the habit of practice excellence

The day will be a true intensive, designed to rapidly accelerate your coaching confidence and expertise, regardless of your starting point.

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. 

Pre-learning

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 Melbourne Intensive run in March, 2023, 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 

The Venue

The event will be held in the Lang Walker building which is on the main campus of The Scots College (33 Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill, NSW 2023). If you head to main reception, you will be directed to the appropriate building. 

Further directions are here: https://moovitapp.com/index/en-gb/public_transportation-The_Scots_College-Sydney-site_161571200-442. 

For those coming from out of town the two key hubs will be Edgecliff Station (Train) and Rose Bay Marina (Ferry). Scots will be providing complementary shuttle services from these two sites before and after the event. Bus is also a very good option from multiple points.

Two useful apps are:

• Service NSW Transport Trip Planner: https://transportnsw.info/trip#/trip
• The TripViewLite App is a pretty good free app for visiting delegates to download and provide routes for trains, buses and ferries

A campus map can be seen below with the Lang Walker building circled:

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.

Hear Josh on the Education Research Reading Room Podcast speaking about Responsive Coaching (Part 1, Part 2)

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.

Harry Fletcher-Wood

Harry has been a teacher, researcher and teacher-educator, and has worked in England, Japan, India and Sweden. He now leads Teacher Tapp's School Surveys, helping school leaders understand their staff, parents and pupils better, and is director of training for Steplab, helping schools use instructional coaching to improve teaching. His latest book is Habits of Success: Getting every student learning, his blog is improvingteaching.co.uk, and he is on Twitter @hfletcherwood

Hear Harry on the Education Research Reading Room Podcast speaking about Habits of Success (here) and Responsive coaching (here)

Sam Sims

Sam Sims is an expert quantitative education researcher interested in teachers, teacher development and education policy. He works at University College London’s Institute of Education, where he lectures on policy analysis and evaluation. He’s also a researcher at Education DataLab and co-author with Becky Allen of the book, The Teacher Gap. 

Hear Sam on the Education Research Reading Room Podcast speaking about what makes effective professional development (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 available
• Less than 2 weeks before event: ticket transfer available