Selecting the right pack

Selecting the right pack

Q: Can you explore for me again what sorts of things are in the packs?

Each pack consists of a number of starter activities to get people engaged and help you to understand their starting points, a series of animations of coaching exchanges which share good and not such good practice. These animations form the foundation of diagnostics and activities to deepen participants understanding and lead on to a range of skills development tools and exercises.

Q: Can I buy just one pack?

Each of the packs is a whole and complete learning resources and so it is possible to purchase single packs. However our experience is that schools and colleges get most value when they purchase certain combinations of the packs as described below and can be seen in the pricing and ordering section. The price for a single pack is £199 plus VAT and P&P.

Q: I’m not sure which packs would be most helpful; what would you recommend?

Interested in taking coaching forward in your school?

You need the Coaching Duo –“Taking hold” focuses on the professional learners in a coaching relationship & “Letting go” focuses on what coaches can do to enhance the effectiveness of coaching.

Not currently involved in extended CPD?

If you currently do not have much systematic planning of and support for CPD going on in school (other than one day INSET sessions) but have access to colleagues with an interest in learning at any age or stage we would suggest that one great place to start is "Letting Go". This pack is designed to increase colleagues' skills in coaching. Powerful as it is to be coached there is now extensive evidence suggesting that learning to be a coach is even more powerful than being coached in extending professionals' learning and teaching skills.

Add to this the “Joining Up” pack to give you interactive tools which will help you to choose the most successful strategy for introducing coaching and mentoring into your school or college.

Interested in building bottom up support for CPD and co-coaching?

“Taking Hold” and “Pulling Together” packs are a great starting point if you are already involved with coaching and want to build the skills and capabilities of staff to be good professional learners and skilled co-coaches. Pulling Together offers a really positive and practical way of building mutual confidence, support and commitment to systematic and sustained professional learning by focusing on how to recognise the need for specialist support and to balance support and challenge within reciprocal coaching relationships.

Interested in taking mentoring forward in your school or area?

“Doubling Up” focuses on the professional learners in a mentoring relationship and “Pulling Through” focuses on what mentors can do to enhance the effectiveness of mentoring.

Our mentors for GTP/NQT etc are good - how can I make sure they stay that way?

“Pulling Through” provides lots of new resources that tutors and mentors will be able to identify with straight away and use to challenge their own thinking and enhance their skills. They will also be able to call upon the reflective activities in "Doubling Up" to offer to the mentees they support.

Based at a school with a relatively high staff turnover?

The “Pulling Through” pack is a good starting place for schools with lots of new recruits and/ or NQTs because of the emphasis on mentoring for induction, introducing colleagues to a new culture and establishing a positive ethos around asking for and providing specialist expertise and information.

The “Doubling Up” pack works well with this to help build the professional learning muscles of all the teachers in your school increasing their appetite for professional learning organised around their work and their skills in making the most of the opportunities on offer.

Interested in leading mentoring and coaching in your school at a whole-school level?

“Joining Up" focuses on what CPD Leaders can do to make mentoring and coaching systematic across the whole school. The pack will help provide clarity on how to link performance management and pupil learning through mentoring and/or coaching.

In a 14-19 environment where partnership is key?

The “Connecting Up” pack is not part of the CUREE standard suite of materials but follows the same design and we can help you to access the right resources from this pack and across the rest of the suite to meet your needs. Please contact Lisa Bradbury for more information.