 In my own experiences as well as working with schools around the world I'm increasingly asked about teaching and learning culture, whole school teaching and learning policies and how I would introduce coaching. So I've got a methodology here it's on my website you can download it already share a short video and explain the thinking behind it and all the kind of practicalities. I guess I've divided into a mixture of kind of phases so whether you have three or four phases or many more and you would divide these over maybe you know coaching culture we're looking at a good couple of years for things to start to really emerge and be embedded and then you might have various cohorts so kind of key group a follow-up group all staff a lead person and all those kind of logistical things behind the scenes. I guess in essence the first kind of thing is busting some myths about what coaching is that we can all benefit from coaching. Other things you know introducing useful scripts that teachers can use in the busy nature of school life. I guess the critical thing behind the scenes is not only the leadership support but the practical support so teaching and learning team, teaching and learning responsibilities, a salary associated with people organizing those roles. Structurally in terms of your timetable if you're going to release some teachers from their timetables to be coaches then there's a cost associated. So all these things have to be factored in as well as synchronization of your coaching alongside your quality assurance process your appraisal process your cpd exposure to all staff as well as kind of you know day-to-day observations those types of things core heart of the kind of first phase I would call I would say this thread throughout the whole process. Phase two you're going to get to a place where your coaches develop some key skills where they need to start to moderate one another before they even go out to start working with other staff. If I'm coaching you how do you know that I'm generally being a coach and so how do you introduce a moderation process perhaps you and I in a coaching pair how do we bring in a third person to observe that coaching methodology. So there's lots of different things we can do and lots of different methods also that instructional coaching and lots of different direct methods that we can use from the world of business or sport all the tools that some of us may have learned in the education sector and I think that critical thing would happen there that moderation process before rolling out to a wider group. This is probably where I'd then repeat this to another group and then follow the same mechanisms behind the scenes we're still tweaking teaching learning policies coaching cultures appraisal policies etc etc and then at some point whole staff are going to start to be exposed to some of these tools methods documents so that we can start to think about what's the one thing that's going to drive teacher improvement. So there's a lot more on my blog that can download and read there's some manuals you can grab this timeline so I just thought that this document might prompt a few thoughts in your own school setting as to how you can unlock teacher potential and during the pandemic we've all had to kind of take our foot off the gas reboot our culture etc and the schools that I work with around the world more and more are trying to get back to the classroom business raising teacher pedagogy and trying to reboot their teaching cultures and what's the one thing that I think does that well I think not only talking about teaching and learning on a day-to-day basis researching full methods but getting your teachers together collectively to share ideas to talk about teaching and learning on a regular basis underpinned by very strong and robust coaching processes your teaching team will fly so take a look let me know what you think and good luck with your own coaching journey