Pippa Leslie

Pippa Leslie leads practical and interactive workshops with children, students, practitioners, parents, leaders, advisors and inspectors, sharing and developing a wide range of strategies for the transformation of learning and leadership in education. She provides opportunities for participants to explore effective leadership, learning and assessment strategies, consider their underpinning principles and tailor them for use in their own setting. She believes in raising achievement and standards through practical approaches to curriculum innovation.

Working alongside practitioners from across the UK, Pippa has developed a programme of tools, strategies and resources to transform learning in Early Years and Primary settings. She has led workshops and given presentations at national and international conferences and provides authentic and informative continuing professional development experiences that embrace real issues and provide a range of simple and practical solutions.

Pippa is a Philosophy for Children Trainer and one of the first 'UK based' trainers for the Critical Skills Programme. She advocates a wide range of strategies for developing and assessing creative and critical thinking for children in Early Years and Primary settings. She also uses a range of leadership models, tools and techniques, including the Myers Briggs Type indicator, to explore leadership styles, preferences and dynamics. She works with individual settings and clusters to develop and embed practical, emotionally resilient approaches to leadership and learning. Her workshops and presentations provide exciting, stimulating and thought-provoking opportunities for participants to reflect on practice, share strategies for practical implementation of new techniques and create dynamic learning organisations.

As part of the General Teaching Council's new Teacher Learning Academy Programme, Pippa is also both a Leader and Verifier in the national recognition of the development of reflective pracitce.

Early Years and Primary programmes themes incude:

• thinking skills strategies: tools, techniques and assessment
• collaborative learning: developing relationships and communication for learning
• ICT, observation and assessment
• Philosophy for Children and Enquiry based learning
• thinking and learning in the outdoor classroom
• creating physical and emotional learning environments to motivate, challenge and engage teacher and learner
• learning through play, intervention and the mediation of learning
• defining quality and assessing progress in curriculum areas, skills and attitudes to learning
• meaningful self and peer assessment: insights and challenging assumptions
• dynamic assessment, observation and planning for progression - practical formative assessment techniques
• high quality assessment - interactive observation and feedback techniques and comprehensive assessment profiles

Early Years and Primary Leadership programme themes:

• learning and leadership styles analysis
• learning and leadership styles: dynamics within teams
• Coaching and Co-Coaching
• engagement and motivation: addressing development issues positively and proactively
• learning culture and ethos: shared aspirations and understanding of quality and expectations
• leading change: increasing capacity for the development of individuals, teams and organisations

Pippa facilitates the development of innovative, creative and collaborative programmes within and between settings. She collaborates closely with practitioners and leaders to support the development and growth of their own settings as outstanding learning organisations. She inspires, challenges and motivates leaders and practitioners to engage in the research, development, design and delivery of programmes where colleagues are able to implement practical and sustainable techniques, share developments and challenge their own and one another's thinking.

"An exciting way of learning that enables children to become problem solvers and collaborative team members" (Kingsland CE Primary, Stoke on Trent) "I feel excited and enthused about teaching again, especially at a time when so much change is happening" (Laygate Community School, South Tyneside) "A brilliantly prepared, planned and organised event, allowing us to become active learners and try out new techniques" (Skills for Growth, Bexleyheath) "Tools, materials and delivery were excellent and helped the team to think outside the box, try out new ideas and be creative" (Skills for Growth, Bexleyheath) "A purposeful and inspirational learning journey" (Health Schools, Norfolk LA)

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