Had such a great day with our Primary Heads we heard from Lesley Powell from the North East Learning Trust about being an authentic leader and had some great conversations about a coaching culture. Can’t wait for day 2 tomorrow!

🤩Delighted to be both a panelist and keynote today at the @MatAssociation speaking about how we ensure the people strategy in lived through all elements of our development offer @EACTlearning @EducationEACT

This afternoon kicks off our Term 1 feedback forums for ECTs, Mentors and Induction Tutors with our ECT group. Great to hear how well the @NIOT ECF is supporting our ECT cohort - bitesize videos were a big hit! #weareEACT

Great way to start the week @EACTCityHeights, loved visiting, seeing teaching and learning in action, talking all things professional development and delivering an instructional coaching staff meeting as part of my visit. @EducationEACT #weareEACT

Wonderful to launch our Primary Exceptional schools and Peer Review programme this afternoon - already brilliant plans on how heads are planning peer reviews! @EducationEACT #weareEACT

If you are a Professional Development or Teaching and Learning lead looking to implement instructional coaching across your setting - come and join me - course starting on 7th October. In person sessions held in Birmingham city centre. Book here: buff.ly/4gsqBRK

Fantastic day with Nechells Academy and North Birmingham Academy talking all things teaching and learning. Followed by meeting the fab Curriculum Assurance Board for @EducationEACT Secondaries.

Week 2 at E-ACT and I’m out to see our fab academies. Was made to feel so welcome at ParkwoodAcademy. Great to see all the brilliant routines already embedded. Thank you so much for a brilliant day! #kayontour

Key messages from my #rED24 talk yesterday. 1.Few things done well > lots of things done badly 2.Know what and who you are designing for. 3. Beware shiny things and ‘quick wins’ I don’t have a blog or website so full slides can be found on my LinkedIn.

Such a brilliant day at #rED24. Highlights for me where @bernardandrews.bsky.social and @kayshepherd.bsky.social’s talks. Lots of notes to go through!

Been looking forward to this from @kayshepherd.bsky.social! Great end to a brilliant day #rED24

Train picnic after a brilliant day at #rED24 so many amazing speakers. And LOTS to think about

Session 5- coaching, communities and consistency with @siobhanMered really interesting to hear about how coaching and practice is working with ECTs around professionalism and relationships

Session 4 looking at why data matters. Really making me reflect on how I can best use data to map professional learning as teachers impact the ‘data’ of pupils in different ways. They make progress in the classroom themselves at different rates. Does great data mean great teaching?!

Session 2 #rED24 Josh Goodrich, and Jon Gilbert. Making tacit knowledge explicit- removing luck and chance from developing expertise. Thinking about how to get our expert teachers to unpack and explain their craft.

Starting off my #rED24 day with @profcoe.bsky.social ‘why we need feedback more than we think’ huge implications for judging teaching and learning from lesson obs and self reflection. “Using video is the most powerful tool when getting a reality check.”

Early train but excited to be speaking at #rED24 today. Session 6 -Thinking about why sometimes professional development doesn’t quite hit the mark. Come say hi 👋

@WALKTHRUs_5 OnPoint No 3: Team Coaching. Factors involved in team coaching.

Had a fab day with the wonderful E-ACT Primary Team in today’s strategy day.

Happy Wednesday. Excited to be on route to Birmingham for E-ACT Primary strategy day. Just KNOW my shoes will give me blisters - but kind of obsessed so wearing them anyway.

What a list!! I’ll be in K28 at the end of the day. Glad I’m in the last session - it will really let the imposter syndrome build up throughout the day 😂.

When we are scared of failing - “ we find ourselves slowly descending into safe mediocrity rather than striving for excellence.” A really interesting piece www.linkedin.com/posts/jade-g...

And so it begins…

Can confirm it is now fully dark at 5am ⏰

🚨Review of Edu-Research in 2023/24 → 11 standout papers → 5 emerging themes → My finding/sharing process (this is my first crack at a vid—would love any feedback, esp how it could be better next time) www.youtube.com/watch?v=egdN...

My favourite: “if you don’t know where you’re going, you might wind up someplace else”. Relatable to both the classroom but also so many endeavours we undertake in school, including professional learning.

I took the liberty of making a starter pack for all the speakers at #rED24 so people can follow as many of them and there are two feeds as well. please share go.bsky.app/6C8kW2C

At #rED24 I’ll be talking about why CPD doesn’t work - and how to fix it. Come say hi 👋

My 4yos first day of school today ❤️ “Was your teacher nice?” “Yes. But I didn’t respect her” Thought this was exceptionally harsh feedback until I released she didn’t *expect* her - she met a different teacher on transition.

Last day of holiday with this one before my pre-schooler officially becomes a ‘schooler’ tomorrow.

I'm leading another day of assessment in non core subject CPD. Venue is East Midlands but open to all. Feb 11th 2025. Register and book your space here. em-edsupport.org.uk/Event/240251

Back in my running/audio book era ready for the new term!

I’m looking forward to bringing more coaching skills into line management this year. This is one of my favourite ways to start a conversation with anyone starting a new role or project this year.

Having a fab day at E-Acts induction day 3 for overseas teachers. Starting the day with thinking about SEND and teaching all learners - then I’m up this afternoon with instructional coaching and T&L. Such an amazing group!!

Thinking about reviewing CPD plans and going right back to basics to start. 1 for column A, 1 from column B then answer “the big 3”

Well this is all very new and exciting! Hi I’m Kay. Director of a Teaching school hub and about to step into a MAT to be Director of Learning -passionate about developing people, and making sense of CPD with a ‘less, but better’ approach. Originally from the North East but now based in the East Mids