Josh Goodrich Author

Josh Goodrich is the founder and CEO of Steplab, an organisation built by experienced teacher educators and school leaders that supports schools to run high-quality PD, powered by Instructional Coaching. Josh, an English teacher, has worked as a school leader in a number of schools across London, most recently as a deputy principal for Teaching and Learning. He's also led T&L for a large Multi Academy Trust. Josh has spent over a decade leading coaching and professional development, and has been lucky enough to coach hundreds of teachers at various levels of experience.

For the last few years, Josh has studied professional development and instructional coaching, trying to better understand what school leaders and coaches can do to supercharge teacher development. He regularly works with schools to develop their PD programmes and, through his organisation, Steplab, supports thousands of schools to develop coaching approaches that make a huge difference to teaching quality.

Josh is convinced that coaching is the most effective method of supporting teachers to improve, but wants to work towards a greater understanding of what coaching means, and what great coaches should do to support rapid teacher improvement.