Testimonials

Excellent, informative and thought provoking session.  Bruce managed the pace perfectly, avoiding information overload while also giving time to think, reflect and discuss with colleagues present.  I came away with the perfect balance of affirmation of some of my own thinking, but also enough challenge to take away and chew over. Would highly recommend both the session itself and the book – both very practical and useful for your professional learning and improving practice, be it your own or for supporting colleagues.

-Depute Headteacher and Pedagogy Conference delegate, February 2025

Bruce's sessions with our Curriculum Principal Teachers and Senior Leadership Team have made a huge impact upon our thinking and planning for next session as well as reinvigorating the whole team with respect to discussing pedagogy. The blending of the research with the practical 'how to' approach ensures that the messages were very well received. I am genuinely excited about where our learning and teaching journey goes from the point of Bruce's engagement with our team.

-Headteacher, North Lanarkshire, January 2025

Bruce provided some extremely practical advice that can easily be used to improve my teaching. His delivery was really good and he clearly has extensive knowledge of the subject. a very worthwhile day.

Excellent presenter, fresh ideas which are realistic, useful and practical in the classroom. Something for everyone to try out.

I thoroughly enjoyed Bruce’s three sessions. His findings were supported by evidence and his delivery included clear implementation for our classrooms. He was outstanding!

-Teachers at Rathfriland High School, Northern Ireland, September 2024

Best Inset I’ve ever attended – I can’t wait to try new things out

The session was fabulous: I loved how Bruce focused both on helping us understand how we learn and on strategies to improve our teaching, regardless ofour starting point. I feel a renewed vigour and enthusiasm for teaching and learning and I can’t wait to start!

-Teachers at Glenalmond College, Scotland, September 2024

Bruce Robertson’s presentation gave me lots of ideas I can use in the classroom, and indeed can be implemented across the department. I will discuss with my team and when I am on learning and teaching walks, I will be looking out for strategies shared yesterday.

The session with Bruce Robertson was extremely useful in giving me ideas to try with my classes in the coming session. It informed my thinking on how our young people learn, which was particularly useful as a reminder and in building confidence that we are getting the balance right a lot of the time. It has started me thinking about the importance of retrieval practice and the methods I use already.

The Bruce Robertson session was absolutely brilliant. He articulated the relationship between knowledge, skills and learning perfectly and this has really helped refocus my understanding of the fundamental process of learning.  I enjoyed all of his practical suggestions and feel confident that I could make good and effective use of these. I am very much looking forward to discussing this further in the book group and I am hopeful about the impact it will have in my classroom.

–Teachers at Kirkintilloch High School, Scotland, August 2024

“Mind Expanding!” How I would describe a professional learning session with Bruce Robertson? Having read The Teaching Delusion trilogy, I booked onto a professional learning session led by Bruce, which was excellent. Bruce is an inspirational and thoroughly engaging speaker who talks with a real passion about learning, teaching and assessment. Following this event, we invited Bruce to work with all of our headteachers and senior leaders to support the launch of our local authority focus on high quality learning, teaching and assessment. Bruce speaks passionately about learning and teaching, draws on theory, research and experience, to give very practical advice that school leaders can take away and use in schools immediately. Giving concrete examples, Bruce demonstrates how we can build a culture of continuous improvement in our schools with a focus on pedagogical improvement. Just brilliant! The trilogy of books by Bruce are also full of practical examples on how we can improve our practice and develop a culture of professional learning within our schools. 

–Kay MacDonald, Quality Improvement Officer, Aberdeenshire

Bruce was the keynote speaker at the Association of School and College Leaders Northern Ireland (ASCLNI) Conference in November 2022 where he addressed 80 school leaders on the theme of Connected with Teaching and Learning. In his first presentation ‘Power Up your Pedagogy’, Bruce aimed to develop delegates understanding of the key messages from cognitive science and educational research about the principles that underpin high-quality pedagogy. Through a series of Learning Lessons, Bruce challenged the audience to think about how learning happens and shared excellent, evidenced based tips which any teacher intent on improving his or her practice would be wise to implement. In his second presentation delegates were challenged to reflect on how a teaching-centred leadership model might be used to drive teaching and learning transformations across their schools by creating a culture that no matter how good teaching is already, we need to keep making it better and better. Bruce draws not just on his own professional experiences but also on the evidence gathered by leading educationalists including Daniel Willingham, Dylan Wiliam and Doug Lemov, and presents in an easy to listen to and engaging way. One school leader in attendance said Bruce Robertson’s presentations were excellent: insightful and practical. I highly recommend Bruce as a presenter/trainer.

–Robert Wilson, ASCL Northern Ireland Regional Officer

An inspirational and thought-provoking morning. I can’t wait to get going.

Thank you – this is a great start to the new session. I feel inspired and informed. Thanks to Bruce.

Excellent, straight forward and down to earth presentation. Loads to reflect on and use for school improvement.

This was an excellent session, giving practical ideas for school improvement with the credibility of listening to someone who is taking his own school through a journey of improvement.

Thank you for organising such an inspirational speaker!

Great to be talking about Learning and teaching and found it very motivational. This was a super presentation.

Listening to someone so enthusiastic about their job, but with tangible proof of improvement, was inspiring.

Thank you for sharing your experiences and thoughts with such a down to earth manner and understanding approach. Very easy to listen to and so though provokingly brilliant!

A fantastic session – A clear focus on improvement and how to achieve this.

–Various Headteachers in Aberdeenshire