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Brilliant insight from our Research Lead, Sarah Cottinghatt 👏

🎯 Refining the goal transforms coaching — moving from reflection to a deeper understanding of what drives effective teaching.

Check out this Coaching Cut to see how refining the goal reveals when actions support or overload learning.
🎦 Today's Coaching Cut substack is out!

Our logic is...
How can we know what to improve if we don’t know our coachee’s intentions?

Great coaching starts by asking our coachees their goal and helping them refine it!

🔗Watch it here! bit.ly/4n1H4hU
Coaching Cut #29 Refine the goal
Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching
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October 13, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🎦 Today's Coaching Cut substack is out!

Our logic is...
How can we know what to improve if we don’t know our coachee’s intentions?

Great coaching starts by asking our coachees their goal and helping them refine it!

🔗Watch it here! bit.ly/4n1H4hU
Coaching Cut #29 Refine the goal
Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching
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October 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Here's what gets me buzzing about our Bangkok formative action workshop: you'll have that lightbulb moment where everything clicks, but then we actually help you implement it back at school.

Content + change strategy + support.

That's the combo that works.

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October 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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“Hold hypotheses lightly”

Love this page from @scottinghatt.bsky.social @ @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social in Coaching Walkthrus.

(And you both look like absolute rockstars in the @olicav.bsky.social graphics)
October 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This is among their best Coaching Cuts! Thank you, Sarah, Adam and Liam. If you are a teacher or train a teacher, do subscribe.
Coaching Cut #28 Point out purpose
Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching
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October 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
How do you agree a goal when your coachee doesn’t see a problem?

You share concrete evidence.
But what when one piece doesn't do it?

You *stack the evidence*.

🎥 Watch today’s Coaching Cut for how 👇
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Coaching Cut #27 Stack the evidence
Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching
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September 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Cracking episode today- if you are interested in how to use evidence effectively in your next coaching conversation, this is well worth a listen.

Thanks @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social @chrispassey.bsky.social and @scottinghatt.bsky.social!

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Coaching Unpacked: Episode 10 - Giving Specific Evidence
Podcast Episode · EduPulse · 12/09/2025 · 19m
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September 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
🔥Coaching Cuts are back!

*Coaches* if you make just one change to your coaching, let it be this:

👉Share specific evidence from the lesson.

It builds credibility.
It engineers insight.
It shows respect.

Here's how with brilliant coach @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social!

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Coaching Cut #24 Share specific evidence
Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching
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September 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
NEW POST!
🔥Starting at a new school? Or inducting new colleagues?

The induction process can be HELL

Find out how we can use 'framing' to turn it into a 'hell of an induction' instead and help colleagues hit the ground running...
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A hell of an induction...
Reframing how we induct new colleagues
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August 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
*Non examples*: not just useful in teaching but coaching too!

Understanding what *not* to do can be a powerful way to understand great practice

Check out the final Coaching Cut of the academic year to learn how to harness non-examples in your coaching!
➡️http://bit.ly/4eYvPV9
July 20, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I've been practising...

Join us today 4pm for ConnectED Live!
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Brought to you by TTC Trust and BeckfootTrust!
July 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Unless you know better, you can’t do better.

High-quality models of great teaching practice are one of the most important coaching mechanisms.

But full models can overwhelm.

Check out this week's coaching cut for how, why & when to *model in chunks*!
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Coaching Cut #22 Model in chunks
Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching
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July 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Most coaching focuses on what happened in the coachee's lesson...

But much of what they did to improve happened *after*...

Todays's coaching cut shows you how to reinforce what the coachee does to implement the step!

➡️Watch it here (on hay bales!)
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Coaching Cut #21 Meta moves
Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching
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July 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Coaching doesn’t end when the conversation does.
Next step *implementation*!

Don't just hope for success - use a premortem!
A premortem flips things: you imagine failure before it happens.

Plan for it. Prevent it.

Check out this week's coaching cut!
➡️http://bit.ly/3Te0jIL
June 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Coaching tip: don't assume they'll just do it

Good intentions fade...

After rehearsal, help coachees make an *execution plan*: a highly specific plan to implement the step!

Behaviour change is devilishly difficult - make a plan to make it happen!

➡️https://bit.ly/4enfdGp
June 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Skip scripting, and you skip success.

If teachers rehearse without scripting, they’re likely to lay down the wrong tracks.

Scripting makes rehearsal purposeful and lowers cognitive load.

Watch how coach Adam helps Olly script for rehearsal👇
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Coaching Cut #17 Script for rehearsal
Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching
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June 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Messy models lose teachers.

This happens a lot when coaches model how to *plan*

Avoid messy models by using two coaching techniques:
🧠 Think aloud
💡 Spotlight success criteria

📽️Watch how coach Cat does it in this week's Coaching Cut! bit.ly/4jpmndT
Coaching Cut #16 Modelling how to plan
Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching
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June 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Just dropped a new episode with therapist @Alicia Drummond that properly challenged my thinking.

We got into why so many leaders focus on fixing everything around them but rarely look inward. But there's research showing your internal state directly impacts your school's culture.

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Education Leaders: Know Yourself, Lead Better | A Conversation with Alicia Drummond
My guest today is Alicia Drummond, a BACP accredited therapist and creator of The Wellbeing Hub. This conversation dives deep into why self-awareness is the foundation of effective school leadershi...
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May 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Don’t assume your coachee sees what you see.

Before modelling a teaching practice:
👁️Share specific success criteria
🖇️Ask them to link those criteria to learning

Take less than 5 mins to learn about both coaching techniques:
➡️https://bit.ly/43x8MeH
May 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Rehearsal is so important and this post gives some great pointers!
It's what you do *and* the way that you do it that matters!*

In coaching, get the most from the powerful mechanism of rehearsal by using two key techniques:

👉 Scaffold rehearsal
👉Just-in-time feedback

Check out this week's Coaching Cut for more!
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Coaching Cut #14 Scaffold rehearsal and just-in-time feedback
Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching
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May 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It's what you do *and* the way that you do it that matters!*

In coaching, get the most from the powerful mechanism of rehearsal by using two key techniques:

👉 Scaffold rehearsal
👉Just-in-time feedback

Check out this week's Coaching Cut for more!
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Coaching Cut #14 Scaffold rehearsal and just-in-time feedback
Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching
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May 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Genuinely thrilled to have co-written an article for Issue 24 of Impact from @collegeofteaching.bsky.social alongside @scottinghatt.bsky.social and @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social

COACHING THAT DEVELOPS MENTAL MODELS FOR ADAPTIVE PRACTICE
May 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Talking about *mental models*? Make sure you know what you mean.

It’s a popular term often used loosely.

They aren’t just bits of knowledge. They’re situation-sensitive tools for thinking.

This post took 2yrs to write!

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5 things to know about mental models
Why do some teachers instinctively know which student to redirect with a glance and which one needs a quiet word at the door?
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May 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM