Teach-Lead: Classroom Strategies & School Leadership
Welcome to Teach-Lead—a space where passion meets purpose, and every strategy is grounded in evidence. Here, we blend research-led insights with real-world classroom experience to tackle the true challenges of educational leadership. Together, we’ll explore proven approaches that inspire growth, spark collaboration, and elevate success—for every learner, every educator, and every team, within schools and far beyond.
Teach-Lead CPD courses on offer: Online or morning and afternoon sessions available. ***Update: Twilight CPD sessions are available on request and are in demand.***
Bespoke CPD available upon request – this can tailored to suit school need, action plans or whole-school CPD targets. Below are testimonies and the CPD on offer.
| Effective Peer and Self-Assessment | Scaffolding: Subject Strategies for Success | Focus on Formative Assessment | Designing Effective CPD in School | NQT Support: English Language & Literature Workshop |
Feedback and Managing Workload | Middle Leadership: Vision, Values and Raising Standards | Literacy Across the Curriculum | Action Planning & Self-Evaluation | SEND Insights Workshop |
Testimonies and Feedback:
“A really enlightening session that was delivered with the school’s context very much at the heart. It has breathed some new life into my teaching – I have been seeking out how to make tweaks to my practice already. Thank you very much, Martin – I thoroughly enjoyed the session.”
“Well planned, informative and tailored to our needs; very well delivered.”
“Thanks – a very enjoyable and worthwhile training session.”
“The delivery style was excellent and all participants felt involved and their contributions valued.”
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KS3: Where Workload is High, Morale is Low, and Targets Never End.
Goodhart’s Law highlights that when metrics become targets, their value diminishes, especially in education. Emphasizing test scores leads to superficial learning, and excessive target setting,…
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Using Knowledge Organisers: Personal Writing & Literary Comparative
Unit 4 is quite a tricky wee paper due to the demands placed on pupils to partake in ‘task switching’ (great read if you are…
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Using Knowledge Organisers: Persuasive and Non-Fiction Texts
In this blog, I’ll share some last-minute practical tips for using Knowledge Organisers (KOs) for Unit 1. Over the years, I’ve printed and distributed these…
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Because-ing Your Way to Success in Task 3
Task 3 is like the ultimate ‘boss battle’ for many pupils. Not only do they have to read and summarise, but they also must do…
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For CPD, training or seminar enquiries, please use the contact form below, and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you.
| Effective Peer and Self-Assessment | Scaffolding: Subject Strategies for Success | Focus on Formative Assessment | Designing Effective CPD in school | NQT Support: English Language & Literature Workshop |
| Feedback and Managing Workload | Middle Leadership: Vision, values and raising standards | Literacy Across the Curriculum | Action Planning & Self-Evaluation | SEND Insights Workshop |
Want to contribute? If you’re interested in being a guest writer or have a topic you’d love me to explore, just head over to the contact page. Suggestions and collaboration opportunities are always welcome. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find my articles both useful and inspiring!
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