Learning can be undermined when educators don't take account of the rapid forgetting that all students experience. Retrieval practice is a flexible, practical and evidence-based way that can support lasting learning and tackle forgetting, helping students to build permanent knowledge which they can apply in new settings. This session will explain how retrieval practice can be built into any class or course. We will look at how its role goes well beyond quizzes, and should not be conflated with formative questioning. The session will demystify the theory underlying retrieval practice, helping participants to hone their professional understanding of the technique and supporting implementation in departments and schools.

This webinar explores the conditions that enable innovative practice to emerge, evolve and become embedded. It highlights the importance of avoiding the blind implementation of pedagogical approaches and instead ensuring they are deeply understood, thoughtfully adapted and meaningfully connected to each school’s – and each practitioner’s – unique context. It also emphasises the importance of leadership at all levels, including the agency of teachers and learners themselves.

Curious about how coaching can support innovation in your teaching practice? The Strathclyde Hub (CfTE) are launching a series of bite-sized sessions to discuss how to introduce coaching into your practice. Join this introductory 30-minute webinar to explore the principles of coaching and discover how coaching conversations can foster reflection, creativity, and meaningful change in the classroom. Whether you are new to coaching or interested in developing your approach to professional learning, this first session will outline what coaching is and begin to explore what it looks like in school.

Join Professor Louise Hayward for an inspiring exploration of how project-based learning can equip learners with the skills, knowledge and dispositions needed for life and work. Drawing on research, theory and models of change, this webinar will examine how project-based learning can foster learner voice and agency, support shifts in professional thinking, and strengthen educational practice at both classroom and system levels. Participants will gain insights into effective project-based learning models and discover how meaningful, real-world learning experiences can empower young people to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

By drawing on classroom-based research, we’ll explore why philosophical thinking is more than a good idea; it offers something rich and exciting for pupils and their teachers in school and beyond.

The presentation begins with a brief introduction to the Swedish school system and then examines key initiatives that support research–practice collaboration. These include the National Professional Program and the ULF initiative (Education, Learning, Research), alongside practice placement partnerships in preschools and schools, and a graduate school focused on practice-based educational research. The presentation also explores local collaborations that illustrate how research–practice partnerships are implemented in practice.

The Strathclyde Hub (Innovative Pedagogy) is delighted to invite you to attend a webinar with Deirdre Grogan. Deirdre’s ‘Pipeline of Play’ presentation outlines the key elements of a play-based environment, through the lens of child-centred practice. The flowchart spans a series of 12 chapters – from system to source, from scale to significance – providing a scaffold for exploring play pedagogy that’s relevant from Early to Second Level, and even beyond.