Updated google drive with any resources I've tweeted about or shared.
drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

Great to see our work at The Hart School featured by @StepLab! 🧡

Proud to be extending instructional coaching to our teaching assistants and support staff, ensuring professional development is for everyone!

👏 Have a read of our case study!

steplab.co/resources/case…

87. A brilliant read

99. Clever, funny and dark, and I was hooked from the beginning. Didn't love the ending but it's clever! 4.5/5

100. Stunning historical fiction. I loved this 4.5/5

How can PD build adaptive expertise?

Abbie Williams shares five lessons from specialist schools and AP on turning knowledge into responsive classroom practice - without reducing teaching to a script.

Read the full article: linkedin.com/pulse/developi…

📅 31 December: Inclusion Strategy deadline. Have you published yours?

Still finalising your plans for the Inclusive Mainstream Fund?

Krissy Yates, former Director of Inclusion and Steplab PD Specialist, shares practical guidance to help.

👉 Read more: bit.ly/IMF-paper

We’re delighted to launch our new Alternative provision and specialist school steps 🎉

Developed with practising leaders from specialist schools and alternative provision settings, the new steps are designed to support teachers working with pupils with complex and additional of great teaching apply to every learner. These new steps focus on the nuance of putting those principles into practice in specialist and AP settings.

Watch our Content Lead, Abbie Williams, explain what we’ve created and why 👇

🏫 What does great PD look like in practice?

Join our virtual Hub school showcase with St Luke’s CofE School and Johnathen Lundie to explore their whole-school approach to PD and instructional coaching.

📅 24 Nov | 4:00pm | 💻 Online

👉 Register: hubs.steplab.co/VirtualHubStLu…

🌟New blogpost - Making ‘Book looks’ work for Pupils with SEND

It’s right that leaders look in books, but what are we looking for? And might we promote the wrong practices for pupils if we get this wrong?

Reposts, comments and likes welcome

sendmatters.co.uk/2026/10/22/mak…

⏰ Early bird tickets end Friday, 23 October

Save across all three Steplab Conference Series 2026-27 events:

🔹 SEND & inclusion - Birmingham, 1 Dec
🎟️ institute.steplab.co/Inclusion-Conf…

🔹 Trust leaders - Birmingham, 11 Mar
🎟️ institute.steplab.co/Trust-Conferen…

🔹 PD for impact - London, 2 Jul
🎟️ http80 users | £210 non-users

Book your place today!

Things you love to see - thank you everyone!

Agreed!! Fabulous read.
And a summary here, with a CPD version with a blank column for your use.
itsalearningcurve.education/cogsci-book-su…

Late to the party 🥳 But this is a brilliant read full of research and practical ideas! A great book to get my brain working ahead of my first KIT day on Friday. Smashed it @MrsBallAP and @lamb_heart_tea 👏👏👏

Visiting a Steplab Hub School is one of the best ways to see great PD in action. @WilliamPerkin is opening its doors to visitors on 13 November. For more details and the booking link, see the post below 👇

🚀 Join us for our @Steplab_co Hub Open Day.
A chance for school leaders and teachers to explore professional development, coaching and deliberate practice supported by Steplab.
📅 Fri 13 Nov
⏰ 8:50am-12:00pm
📍 Durrington High School👉 Register:
hubs.steplab.co/DurringtonHigh…

👋 Meet Scott Wells, one of our Professional Development Specialists!

A former trust PD leader and Steplab Hub Lead, Scott has led instructional coaching and PD across schools in the UK and Australia.

At Steplab, he supports schools, delivers intensives, Masterclasses and s build impactful PD.