About Bruce

Bruce Robertson is the director of Next Level Educational, which focuses on high-quality professional development for teachers and school leaders.

His best-selling and acclaimed books include The Teaching Delusion trilogy, Power Up Your Pedagogy: The Illustrated Handbook of Teaching, and Power Up Your Questioning: A Practical Handbook for Teachers. Of Power Up Your Pedagogy, Professor Rob Coe of Evidence Based Education says: ‘To all teachers I would say: study this book, learn from it and act on it’. You can read more about his books here.

Bruce has been working in education for over 20 years, having trained as a teacher at The University of Edinburgh in 2002. As headteacher, Bruce’s leadership of Berwickshire High School from 2020-24 has been instrumental in turning around a school rated ‘weak’ and ‘unsatisfactory’ in an HMIE inspection, to one that is now widely recognised as sector-leading in its approaches to teaching & learning improvement, ethos, and staff professional development. You can find out more about this here and here, and via the follow-up inspection report, available here.

As a consultant and trainer, Bruce is widely praised for his passion, clarity and the practicality of his messages.