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Teaching Sprints is a simple and effective approach to collaborative professional learning. Whether you are a teacher looking to improve their own craft, an instructional coach working with teams, or a school leader rethinking professional learning across a school, this course will provide you with a clear framework and practical next steps.

Through this course you will:

  • Examine the importance of enhancing adaptive teaching expertise

  • Be guided through each phase of the Teaching Sprints approach

  • Explore how robust and relevant research evidence can be used to inform practice improvement efforts

  • Learn how to facilitate the process and harness the tools for disciplined dialogue and review

  • Make a plan for how to successfully implement Teaching Sprints within your unique educational context

  • Enjoy access for 12 months so that you can learn at your own pace & revisit the content as needed

Course curriculum

12 Month Access - 2 hrs of Video Content

  • 01

    Introduction

    • Welcome from Dr Simon Breakspear, co-creator of Teaching Sprints and course facilitator

    • Print out: The Teaching Sprints process

    • Components of the course

    • How to engage with the course

    • Engaging with the Teaching Sprints book

    • A history of Teaching Sprints

    • Website: Spend some time exploring the Teaching Sprints website

    • Quiz: The goal of Teaching Sprints
  • 02

    Part 1 - Big Ideas about Getting Better

    • Thinking about practice improvement

    • 1.1. Big Idea 1 - Start with the best bets

    • 1.2. Big Idea 2 - Practice makes progress

    • 1.3. Big Idea 3 - Focus on tiny shifts

    • Summary of the 3 big ideas about getting better
  • 03

    Part 2 - The Teaching Sprints Process

    • The 3-Phase Process

    • Print-out: Teaching Sprints process overview

    • 2.1. The Prepare phase

    • 2.2. The Sprint phase

    • 2.3. The Review phase

    • Summary of the 3-Phase Process
  • 04

    Download protocols

    • Protocol Download: Research Jigsaw

    • Protocol Download: Learn and let go

    • Protocol download: Picture of practice

    • Protocol download: Boulder Pebble Sand

    • Check-in Protocol to be run during the Sprint Phase

    • Download: Review protocol
  • 05

    Part 3 - Establishing an Improvement Routine

    • Establishing an improvement routine

    • The 3 key questions for setting up a routine

    • 3.1. Teaching teams: Who could work together in Teaching Sprints?

    • 3.2. Scheduling: When can we run our Teaching Sprints in a busy term?

    • Audit: Review potential collaboration time that could be reallocated for Teaching Sprints

    • Live workshop clip - Identifying practice improvement time

    • Planner: Scheduling Teaching Sprints

    • 3.3. Focus Area: How do we choose an area of practice to work on?

    • Summary of Part 3
  • 06

    Part 4 - Leading the Process

    • 4.1. The role of a Sprint leader

    • 4.2. Leading the Prepare Phase

    • 4.3. Leading the Sprint Phase

    • 4.4. Leading the Review Phase

    • 4.5. Working with other Sprint leaders

    • 4.6. Live workshop clip - Considering a Sprints research lead within your school

    • Teaching Sprints Pulse Check Survey
  • 07

    Course Conclusion

    • Conclusion of the course - Running Teaching Sprints
  • 08

    Reading List on Professional Learning & Expertise Development

    • Optional Reading: Teacher expertise - Why it matters and how to get more of it (Wiliam, 2015)

    • Optional Reading: Linking effective professional learning with effective teaching practice (Cole, 2012)

    • Reading: Practice with purpose (Deans for Impact)

    • Reading: A manifesto for evidence-based education (Prof Rob Coe)

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Course Reviews

Craig Meuser

5 star rating

“I very much enjoyed this course. It was well-constructed, researched, and presented. I like the idea of setting the stage for teachers to amplify their reflective practice. ”

“I very much enjoyed this course. It was well-constructed, researched, and presented. I like the idea of setting the stage for teachers to amplify their reflective practice. ”

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Clancy Dowling

5 star rating

“It gave me plenty to think about as far as short term and long term goals”

“It gave me plenty to think about as far as short term and long term goals”

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Jayme Rafferty

5 star rating

“well organised - loved the videos”

“well organised - loved the videos”

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Alisoun Garrard

5 star rating

“I had completed teaching sprints at my previous school as a member of a team but have now completed Simon's training to lead these teaching springs in my new role as an AP - Curriculum and Instruction. I am looking forward to engaging with best p...”

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“I had completed teaching sprints at my previous school as a member of a team but have now completed Simon's training to lead these teaching springs in my new role as an AP - Curriculum and Instruction. I am looking forward to engaging with best practice evidence based teaching strategies and sharing these with the people I am working with armed with Simon's knowledge and understanding of how time poor teacher's really are. Thank you!”

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Amanda Dippenaar

5 star rating

“I have run Sprints in a previous school after face to face training. I am now in another school and needed inspiration to again continue in a new context. I have enjoyed going over the Sprint and the research that continues to support a very reali...”

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“I have run Sprints in a previous school after face to face training. I am now in another school and needed inspiration to again continue in a new context. I have enjoyed going over the Sprint and the research that continues to support a very realistic approach to making shifts in teaching and learning everyday for every participant in the Sprint. Cheers A.Dippenaar”

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