Professional development for teachers and leaders

Bruce offers bespoke professional development for teachers and leaders in both primary and secondary sectors. Input can be delivered as a standalone session or as a series of sessions, in-person, online or as a hybrid. Themes can be tailored to suit the needs of your organisation. A brochure of example offers is available here.

For Teachers

Build a shared understanding of what makes great teaching across your school or team, including practical strategies that can support every teacher.

Pedagogical Principles

Key messages from cognitive science and educational research about approaches that are most likely to be the most effective at particular times, and why.


Trusted Techniques

Practices teachers can focus on building into their teaching repertoire or getting even better at, linked to pedagogical themes (such as questioning or feedback).


Specific Themes

Questioning, feedback, learning intentions, success criteria, presentations, practice, adaptive teaching, retrieval practice, behaviour management… and more.


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For Leaders

Explore generic principles and specific initiatives that can help transform leadership of teaching and learning across your team or school, at both middle and senior levels.

Leadership Principles

Enhance the leadership of middle and senior leaders across your school by exploring foundational leadership principles, including how these might look in practice.


Great Teaching

Develop a shared understanding of what makes great teaching, informed by cognitive science and educational research.


Leading Professional Development

Support the development of everyone’s teaching practice through high-quality professional development, and evidence the impact.


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