Alex Gingell
@alexgingell
Former headteacher now coaching development lead at Steplab. Hooked on unlocking great teaching and PD. Love lakes, the sea and ice cream. Dog dad to Nora 🐶
Another good day of developing staff. Onboarding for new colleagues, along with whole school group rehearsal of Turn & Talk! Thanks for the inspiration @alexgingell @Steplab_co @teacherhead
Such a good day, stepping away from the day job for a few hours.
🤯 Great day leading deep thinking, deep reflection and deep practice with @MrsBallAP and @rs_sewell at the @Steplab_co PD Leadership Intensive today. 🙏 Huge thanks to colleagues for their energy and enthusiasm as we navigated what makes great leadership of teacher development.
It's here! 💥 Couldn't be prouder of this book and 2 years of hard work alongside Alex Fairlamb finally coming to fruition. Really hope people like it and find it useful!
🙌 Huge thanks to @alexgingell, Rory, and Ania for today’s @Steplab_co intensive — it was absolutely outstanding. Looking forward to continuing our instructional coaching journey this term.
🇦🇺 Real privilege to spend time working with Australian colleagues unpacking great coaching and maximising the potential of @Steplab_co today. ++ Awesome to meet (and be coached by) @XpatEducator ⚡️
🇦🇺 Real privilege to spend time working with Australian colleagues unpacking great coaching and maximising the potential of @Steplab_co today. ++ Awesome to meet (and be coached by) @XpatEducator ⚡️

New study would appear to support instructional coaching models of PD. Programmes that rely only on teachers self-reflection are unlikely to shift classroom practice meaningfully and that PD should be should be designed around specific, observable teaching moves and include…
As the 2024-25 academic year draws to a close... We just wanted to say thank you to all of our partners 🙏 We've loved supporting so many great teachers, leaders, schools & trusts this year 🎉 We can't wait to see you all in September, but for now... Happy holidays! 🏖️
Huge shoutout to colleagues in a very warm Kent today for their energy, insight and full-on engagement in our PD Intensive. On a Friday. Near the end of the summer term. And still carving out time to think deeply about great professional development!
We’ve had such a great day - thanks for hosting!
Final @Steplab_co Coaching Hub of the year! ✅ 7 hub days 👥 50+ visitors 💬 Countless powerful conversations Thank you to everyone who joined us this year @MCPAcademy to grow, reflect, and refine their coaching and PD. Here’s to more collaboration in the new school year!
Our final @Steplab_co @MCPAcademy Coaching Hub of the academic year! A brilliant day with inspiring school leaders some just starting their coaching journey, others refining and deepening their implementation.
Thanks for joining us! 🙏
An absolutely fantastic two days with @Steplab_co on their intensive courses. Excellent content and exceptional delivery! Thank you to the team for this great training 🌟
Absolutely loved running this with @AniaTownsend yesterday. Energy and engagement from the group was 💯
What an incredible two days in Leeds 🎉 Today we explored how leaders can design & deliver an impactful PD programme We've had incredible feedback: "The most effective framework for running effective PD I've ever seen" Up North to down South - we go again in Kent on Friday!
Thanks for your energy and enthusiasm yesterday @FantasticTim - really glad you had a good day and the badge was definitely well deserved!
@Steplab_co @alexgingell @rs_sewell I know people say this all the time, but today’s PD Leadership Intensive Training was superb. Really well structured and tailored to the expertise in the room. Thank you for the badge :)
Really great day at Steplab’s PD Leadership Intensive training! So many reflections to take away and fantastically structured day!
🤯 Great day leading deep thinking, deep reflection and deep practice with @MrsBallAP and @rs_sewell at the @Steplab_co PD Leadership Intensive today. 🙏 Huge thanks to colleagues for their energy and enthusiasm as we navigated what makes great leadership of teacher development.

💥Really looking forward to joining @StevenHadley20 and colleagues from across the @HaybridgeTSH tomorrow. We’ll be getting stuck into how great PD helps drive truly great teaching! 💥
Super evidence snacks from @PepsMccrea this morning! If you want to know more about group rehearsal, join mine and @alexgingell session at @researchED1 national on 6th September!
I am excited to watch this and very excited to be watching it with @MrElliotHahn in Manchester! 🙌
📣 It's tomorrow at 4 pm 🚨 It's not too late to sign-up for our webinar with @TeachLikeAChamp Join @Doug_Lemov, @Josh_CPD and @Claire_Hill_ as they dive into the mechanics of effective teaching ⚙️ Sign-up 👉 bit.ly/4jw3TIQ See you there 👋
📢 Major milestone achieved... 1⃣,0⃣0⃣0⃣,0⃣0⃣0⃣ feedback sessions completed Teachers have received 1 million pieces of high quality feedback on their teaching practice through Steplab's coaching framework Teachers have been supported to improve ONE MILLION TIMES 🚀 👏🎉🥳👏
These are my top tops for making texts accessible. *1.5- double lined spaced *line numbers *Gloss the vocab immediately above the target word *Add image if easier than words (e.g pikes!) No 3 also means you can easily read both target & explainer word when reading to class.
🔥 So great to see our @Steplab_co resources in action! I loved putting them together so big thanks for sharing 🙌
Absolutely loved our department cpd based on the second episode of @Steplab_co 🙌 highly recommend the three free available episodes for you and your team. 👌✨ #ukedchat #teamenglish