Masterclass
Learning Power Approach Leadership
Shape your school culture through metacognition, agency and learner empowerment
A 5-part Masterclass Series with Graham Powell
Join leadership and coaching expert Graham Powell to explore how the Learning Power Approach (LPA) can shape a culture of growth, reflection and independent thinking across your school. This series offers practical and strategic support to strengthen pedagogy, coaching, and school leadership through the principles of LPA.
Learning Power is about growing learners — not just delivering lessons. Leading with this in mind means helping teachers, students and teams shift from compliance to agency. But sustaining that shift takes thoughtful modelling, reflection, and a consistent focus on how learning actually happens.
These sessions provide space to explore those ideas deeply, and apply them in your context — so that every part of your school begins to work more intentionally in service of learner development.
The Masterclass Series
1 Introduction to coaching
Graham introduces a variety of coaching models and theory behind coaching. This introductory unit will give you a strong basis for understanding coaching - what it is and what it isn’t - and why you might like to thread it into your leadership and training palette.
2 Coaching ourselves
As a first step to coaching anyone, we need to learn to coach ourselves. Graham shares a range of tools and techniques to develop self-reflection and coaching skills, providing not only a useful basis to coach students, but also a useful toolkit to improve our relationships and practice.
3 Coaching students
Graham walks us through two worked examples, positioning us as the learner to experience how we can build challenge, empathy, reflection and understanding through coaching questions. He also shares key coaching questions to use as part of our day-to-day coaching practice.
4 Developing a whole school language for learning
Although schools have a shared understanding of what it is they have to teach, there are a plethora of, sometimes overwhelming, lists of how we might want our students to become effective learners in school and beyond. In this workshop you will be helped to decide on a language for learning that best serves your school - and how to implement it and make it stick in day-to-day practice.
5 Communicating your vision
With primary and secondary feeder schools. The disjuncture that exists between the primary and secondary phases can be wasteful of energy and detrimental to progress. Graham demonstrates how he has helped schools work across phases to enable teachers to learn effectively from each other and learners to build on previous good habits in new environments.
About Graham Powell
Graham Powell is a former headteacher, coach and consultant with decades of experience supporting school transformation through coaching and pedagogy. He co-developed the Learning Power Approach alongside Professor Guy Claxton and brings a clear, practical and insightful lens to building learning cultures from the inside out.
Follow Graham's work hereWho will most benefit from these Masterclasses?
This is for:
- School leaders committed to strengthening pedagogy through values-based leadership
- Teaching and learning leads looking to create a culture of agency and reflection
- Teams exploring how coaching and dialogue can deepen practice and impact
- Educators ready to examine how their own beliefs and behaviours shape learning
- Teams leaders ready to invest time in sustained professional growth and school-wide transformation.
Not so impactful for:
- Schools looking for off-the-shelf frameworks without reflection
- Teams closed to challenge or change in pedagogy or culture
- Leaders focused solely on short-term outcomes or performance metrics
- Educators who see learning as content delivery rather than development
- Schools unwilling to invest in sustained, values-led professional learning
FAQs
Are the sessions recorded?
Yes, every session is recorded and is easy to access in your own time. Sessions are time-stamped and broken up into sections to highlight key points or questions to explore with your teams.
Do I need to be familiar with LPA to join?
Experience of the LPA helps. That said, whether you’re new to Learning Power or already applying it, Graham will meet you where you are and offer ways to go deeper.
Can we use this in school-wide CPD?
Absolutely. These sessions are ideal for starting powerful conversations in your teams and shaping whole-school culture.
Join Us
Ready to lead through learning?
Be part of this unique opportunity to explore the Learning Power Approach directly with Graham Powell. Take time to reflect, grow and align your practice with the kind of learning culture your school deserves.
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*We never want money to hold back learning so we are offering equity discounts to those on a tighter budget. Email Becky Carlzon for more details.
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*Please note that places are limited and filled up quickly last year. Register early to avoid disappointment.
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