Delivered by James Rawbone and Sara-Jane Godfrey

Are you ready to lead and inspire coaching practice in your school?

This course is designed for staff who are stepping into or are already taking a lead in coaching. Whether you are an experienced coach or responsible for developing and supporting a team of coaches, this programme will strengthen your impact and confidence.

Open to both teaching and non-teaching staff across Primary and Secondary settings, the course is ideal for colleagues who are motivated to develop their coaching skills, embed high-quality coaching practice, and drive meaningful professional development within their school.

Prerequisite: Participants must have successfully completed the Introduction to Coaching training prior to attending the APOC programme.

Advanced coaches confidently utilise advanced techniques to increase their effectiveness and expertise. Through informal coaching conversations,

formal coaching sessions and structured coaching programmes, they ensure clarity, inspire confidence, and create momentum for colleagues, pupils,

and teams to achieve both professional and organisational goals. They can lead effective coaching across groups and teams.

The Aims:

• Understand Advanced Coaching: Clarify what advanced coaching is — and is not — and explore its powerful impact on improving teaching and learning/training, leadership practice, and communication and culture across your organisation.
• Develop advanced coaching expertise: Build your effectiveness as a coach by learning how to identify and work through a coachee’s limiting beliefs and deliver powerful feedback that moves thinking and practice forward.
• Master coaching models: Confidently apply a range of formal and informal coaching models to support impactful, high-quality coaching conversations.
• Lead impactful coaching at scale: Learn how to lead effective coaching across groups and teams, delivering clear value and confidently measuring impact.

There are two sessions to this training. The second session will be held on Friday, 10 July 2026, 9 am - 3:30 pm