Progress Teaching

Action steps from a bank

A fully structured, research-informed bank of action steps to strengthen feedback, coaching, and appraisal within your school or trust.

Looking for clear, high-leverage action steps you can use straight away?

This resource gives you a complete bank of actions across key areas of teaching and learning, all developed from a study of 50 schools’ real-world practice. 

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Lai Tzu

The essential action step resource

This resource gives leaders a complete set of ready-to-use action steps. Each step connects practice to impact, helping teachers understand what to do and why it matters. These action steps are designed to support coaching, mentoring, and appraisal.

Built from real practice

Developed from a study of 50 schools’ existing action steps to understand what works, what doesn’t, and what teachers actually need.

“Do this, so that…” format

Every action step links the strategy to its purpose, making intentions clear and ensuring teachers understand the impact on learning.

Ready to use or adapt

Use the steps as they are, map them to your teaching & learning framework, or adapt them to suit subjects, phases, or individual teachers.

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Making Every Adult Count - Maximising TA Impact on Learning

Teaching Assistants are a high value, yet often under-used resource in our schools. In a context of rising need, tight budgets and a sharper focus within the new Ofsted framework, how TAs are deployed and developed is not a logistical detail, it’s a leadership priority.

Join us to explore how evidence-informed deployment, strong teacher-TA partnerships and focused professional development can drive progress, independence and inclusion.

We’re delighted to be joined by Laura Markendale, Deputy Headteacher for Inclusion at Great Academies Education Trust and experienced SENCo.

All attendees will receive a copy of our Ofsted-ready TA Teaching & Learning Framework and implementation guide.