Bruce Robertson

Bruce Robertson

@brucenextlevel.bsky.social

Next Level Educational CEO: Powering up professional development for teachers and leaders | Author of The Teaching Delusion trilogy and Power Up series | TEACHING POWERUPS NextLevelEducational.com TeachingPowerUps.com

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Great to be working with primary and secondary teachers from the James Gillespie’s Cluster, Edinburgh, this afternoon for the second in our Power Up Your Pedagogy series. 🚀 Questioning 🚀 Feedback 🚀 Plenaries Teaching PowerUps supporting ongoing professional development: teachingpowerups.com

I thoroughly enjoyed working with middle leaders from across Northern Ireland for the first day of the new Middle Leadership Development Programme Next Level Educatuonal is delivering. Tremendous energy in the room and brilliant discussion from everyone 😊

An honour to be leading the afternoon keynote at St Bede’s College’s ‘Curriculum with Purpose’ Conference this afternoon. 🚀 The relationship between knowledge and skills 🚀 The best way to teach ‘meta-skills’ 🚀 Practical strategies for everyone to power up their curriculum

I really enjoyed leading the ‘Knowledge-based curricula: myths, pitfalls and the link to AI’ workshops at St Bede’s College, Manchester today. Remember: knowledge is thinking fuel 🚀

Great to be back at Bellahouston Academy, Glasgow, for our third Power Up Your Pedagogy twilight. This afternoons’s theme was feedback. Super discussion and great to hear about all of the impact from our previous sessions 😊

A pleasure to work with so many brilliant primary school teachers and leaders at today’s conference in Bangor, Northern Ireland. 🚀 The science of learning 🚀 Questioning 🚀 Retrieval practices 🚀 And more! Super to hear that so many teachers found the day so useful 😊 nextleveleducational.com

Great to be working with teachers at Tillicoultry Primary School this afternoon. We were focusing on principles and techniques to power up our differentiation and adaptive teaching. A super group to work with 😊

A really great day working with teachers and support staff at Grosvenor Grammar School, Belfast. Our focus was: 🚀 Powering up student engagement 🚀 Brilliant discussion and a superb team of staff to work with 😊

Great to be back working with teachers at Renfrew High School this afternoon for the second in our series of Power Up sessions. Today, we were focusing on principles and techniques to power up our formative assessment 🚀

A great afternoon working with staff in Knightswood Secondary School, Glasgow. There were two sessions: 🚀 Power Up Your Leadership of Teaching and Learning (middle leaders) 🚀 Power Up Your Pedagogy (all teachers), focusing on differentiation, adaptive teaching and feedback Super discussion 😊

It was super to be back working with primary and secondary leaders in the Chryston Cluster this afternoon. We were exploring teaching-centred leadership, with a focus on how principles can be applied in practice. Super discussion 😊

A pleasure to be back working with teachers at Bellshill Academy this afternoon. We were focusing on principles and practical approaches to power up our behaviour management skills. Brilliant to hear how useful staff found the session 😊

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I really enjoyed working with staff at Greenhead Sixth Form College, Huddersfield, this afternoon. We were focusing on principles and techniques to power up our inclusive pedagogy. Great to see evidence of so many practical takeaways 🚀

It was so good to see so many people at my last @researchED1 session of the day: Power Up Your Leadership of Teaching and Learning 🚀 Teaching-centred leadership 🚀 PACE model for school improvement 🚀 Pedagogy Development Plans 🚀 Teaching frameworks 🚀 Coaching approaches

It was great to see so many people at my Power Up Your Adaptive Teaching talk at the @researchED1 National Conference. 🚀 Adaptive teaching vs differentiation 🚀 Common Pitfalls 🚀 Pedagogical principles 🚀 Trusted Techniques Great to hear how useful people found the session 😊

Thank you to everyone who came along to my first @researchED1 National Conference session, Power Up Your Curriculum. 🚀 The link between knowledge and skills 🚀 How to teach meta-skills 🚀 The 5Cs of a content-rich curriculum

I’m really looking forward to presenting three sessions at this years’s @researchED1 National Conference 😊 🚀 Power Up Your Curriculum 🚀 Power Up Your Adaptive Teaching 🚀 Power Up Your Leadership of Teaching and Learning An honour to be part of such an incredible lineup.

Great to be working with teachers at Milne’s High School today for a twilight on powering up our questioning. Pause, Patient Hands, Cold Call, Show-Me Boards, Choral Response, Chat To A Partner, Return Visit… and a host of other Trusted Techniques to choose from 🚀

Great to be back working with teachers at Airdrie Academy this afternoon. This was our third twilight session together. Building on themes from previous sessions, today we were exploring principles and practical techniques to power up our differentiation and adaptive teaching 🚀

Great to be in London today, working with teachers and teaching assistants at Highams Park School. We were exploring principles and techniques to power up our feedback 🚀 A super group of staff to work with 😊

A great afternoon working with teachers at Trinity High School, South Lanarkshire. We were exploring principles, pitfalls and techniques to help ensure there is appropriate levels of challenge for all students in lessons. Really good discussions 😊

Day 4 in Northern Ireland and it was great to be working with teachers and support staff at the Belfast Model School for Girls. We were exploring pedagogical principles and trusted techniques to power up our pedagogy, focusing on questioning, retrieval and adaptive teaching 🚀

Building on themes from the morning sessions with all teachers at Glengormley Integrated College, it was great to spend the afternoon working with middle and senior leaders, exploring principles and practical approaches to power up our leadership of teaching and learning 🚀

I thoroughly enjoyed working with teachers at Glengormley Integrated College this morning. We had two 90-minute sessions, exploring principles and techniques to power up our pedagogy. Brilliant to hear how useful everyone found each session 😊

A great day working with teachers at All Saints College, Belfast. We were exploring pedagogical principles and trusted techniques to power up our pedagogy. Super to get this feedback: “The consensus from everyone was how inspiring and motivating they found the session.” 😊

It’s been another really busy week of professional development: Shetland, Glasgow, Lockerbie, Dumfries, Edinburgh and Belfast. It was great to be back working with staff at Breda Academy today, exploring pedagogical principles and trusted techniques to power up our pedagogy 🚀