All our Annual Summit Recordings from 2026
Please be advised that only the recorded sessions are listed below:

Welcome introductions (link)

Keynotes:

  • Empowering Schools to Build Inclusive Attendance Cultures by Wayne Harris (link)
  • Governance Matters by Felicity Gillespie (no recording)
  • Be More Toddler: A Leadership Education from Our Little Learners by Emma Turner (link)

Expert Panels:

  • ​Beyond Compliance: Values-Driven Leadership for Sustainable Improvement (link)
  • If We Were Designing the Education System Now, What Major Shifts Would We Prioritise? (link)

Senior Sharing Great Practice Sessions:

  • Quality Systems: Conversations That Connect: Listening, Belonging, and Compassionate Leadership in Action (link)
  • Organisational Development: How AI and UDL Unlock Knowledge-Rich Curricula (link)
  • Change Management:​ Evaluation: From Accountability to Improvement (link)

Great Practice Sessions:

Effective Curriculum:

  • Designing and Embedding a Semi Formal Curriculum in Mainstream Schools (link)
  • Designing Curriculum for Real School Contexts (link)
  • The Best Thinking is Rethinking (link)

Effective Professional Development:

  • The Certainty Effect (link)
  • Translating Theory into Practice: Embedding Cognitive Science and Metacognition (link)
  • Supporting a School in a Period of Leadership Transition (link)

Effective Leadership:

  • Collaborative School Improvement in Wales (link)
  • Squaring up to Leadership Challenges and People Politics to Strengthen Accountability at All Levels (link)
  • Developing Middle Leaders: The Key to Sustainable School Improvement (link)

Closing remarks (link)