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Leading your team through the Explicit Instruction sprint

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Leading your team through the Explicit Instruction sprint

You've registered your team to complete the Explicit Instruction sprint. So what's next? We've written this leader’s guide to walk you through how to introduce Stile Academy and work through a module as a department. What is Stile Academy? Stile Academy is a

Explicit Instruction Sprint - Step 1: Laying the foundations

Explicit Instruction Sprint - Step 1: Laying the foundations

Laying the foundations If we want to see real improvements in science classrooms, we need to move beyond one-off workshops and surface-level PL. Stile Academy offers something different: an embedded approach to professional learning that fits into the everyday rhythm of teaching. The Explicit Instruction sprint competition is

Explicit Instruction Sprint - Step 2: Launch your sprint

Explicit Instruction Sprint - Step 2: Launch your sprint

It All Starts with a Launch When seeking buy-in from your team, a strong, values-aligned launch makes all the difference. Your goal is to show teachers that Stile Academy is designed to support them and their professional learning. Facilitate a launch meeting Facilitate a short launch session to

Explicit Instruction Sprint - Step 3: Maintain progress and motivation

Explicit Instruction Sprint - Step 3: Maintain progress and motivation

Once teachers have begun the module, your focus shifts to sustaining engagement and supporting deeper impact. Step 3 is about keeping a pulse on progress to ensure teachers feel supported. By providing timely feedback loops, targeted support and meaningful recognition, you can maintain momentum and ensure professional learning translates into

Introducing the Randomiser: A simple way to get every student thinking

Introducing the Randomiser: A simple way to get every student thinking

We’ve all been there. You pose a question to your class — a good one, the kind that should spark lively discussion — and one, maybe two hands go up. If you’re lucky, three. And let’s be honest — they’re always the same three. Or worse… silence. The kind

Why we don’t offer Lexile level adjustments in our science lessons – and what we do instead

Why we don’t offer Lexile level adjustments in our science lessons – and what we do instead

Reading is a core part of learning science – but for many students, it’s also one of the biggest hurdles. The language of science can be dense, technical, and unfamiliar, especially for struggling readers and English language learners. As educators, we’ve all seen students disengage – not because they couldn’

Step 3: Monitor and support progress

Step 3: Monitor and support progress

Once teachers have begun exploring Stile Academy and trialing new strategies in their classrooms, your focus shifts to sustaining engagement and supporting deeper impact. Step 3 is about keeping a pulse on progress – ensuring teachers feel supported, recognised and connected to a broader learning community. By providing timely feedback loops,

Step 2: Embedding a culture of continuous professional growth with Stile Academy

Step 2: Embedding a culture of continuous professional growth with Stile Academy

It All Starts with a Launch Great professional learning isn’t one-size-fits-all – because great teachers aren’t, either. Stile Academy is a flexible, evidence-based professional learning program designed for science educators. It recognizes that teachers have different strengths, needs and time constraints – and supports them with

Step 1: Embedding a culture of continuous professional growth with Stile Academy

Step 1: Embedding a culture of continuous professional growth with Stile Academy

Laying the foundations If we want to see real improvements in science classrooms, we need to move beyond one-off workshops and surface-level PD. Stile Academy offers something different: an embedded approach to professional learning that fits into the everyday rhythm of teaching. With flexible, evidence-based modules designed

3-step guide: How to embed a culture of continuous professional growth in your science department

Professional Learning

3-step guide: How to embed a culture of continuous professional growth in your science department

A leader’s guide to integrating ongoing, personalised professional development with Stile Academy “It is not the curriculum that makes the biggest difference – it’s the teacher. And what teachers do matters more when they work together to evaluate their impact.” — Hattie, J. (2012) Stile Academy is a flexible, evidence-

Professional Learning

Empowering educators through professional learning: The Stile approach

At Stile, we believe that great science education starts with great teaching. That’s why professional learning (PL) is a core part of our product. Our mission is to ensure every student experiences rich, rigorous, and engaging science lessons, and that begins by empowering the educators who bring them to

Unlocking the full potential of HQIM: Why your teachers need more than just a great curriculum

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Unlocking the full potential of HQIM: Why your teachers need more than just a great curriculum

High-Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) are a powerful investment in student success. They offer structured progression, research-backed content, and alignment with academic standards—everything teachers need to deliver rich, rigorous learning experiences. But here’s the catch: HQIM alone won’t move the needle. Without the right support, even

Building a culture of continuous improvement: Using Stile Academy in your faculty or PLC

Professional Learning

Building a culture of continuous improvement: Using Stile Academy in your faculty or PLC

Professional learning is most powerful when it’s collaborative, consistent, and connected to what’s happening in the classroom. Yet for many faculties and PLCs, it can be hard to maintain momentum beyond one-off sessions or surface-level check-ins. If you're looking to build a stronger

How small changes lead to big impact: Inside the Stile Academy Sprint Cycle

How small changes lead to big impact: Inside the Stile Academy Sprint Cycle

It’s time to move beyond one-size-fits-all professional learning

Professional Learning

It’s time to move beyond one-size-fits-all professional learning

How Stile Academy is redefining professional learning for science teachers As educators, most of us have (at some point) experienced professional learning that doesn’t quite hit the mark. You attend a one-off workshop, get inspired by a handful of great ideas – and then reality hits. The content fades,

Recognition of PD hours

Recognition of PD hours

All modules in Stile Academy are aligned to teacher standards and are designed to support PLC cycles. Receive a certification recognizing your professional learning achievements for every module completed. And the best part? You can complete modules asynchronously at your own pace or collaborate with your department during faculty meetings.

Introducing Stile Academy: Professional Development that’s personalized, practical and proven to work.

Introducing Stile Academy: Professional Development that’s personalized, practical and proven to work.

Professional learning is most effective when it mirrors what we know about great teaching: it’s differentiated, flexible, and built on evidence. Just as we wouldn’t expect all students to be at the same point in their learning – or need the same instruction –we don't believe professional

Supporting EAL/D students with Stile X

Supporting EAL/D students with Stile X

This blog outlines key strategies embedded in Stile X that directly support EAL/D learners.

Why Stile has created revision resources

Why Stile has created revision resources

Stile is always evolving. Over the past couple of years, we’ve been working on one of our biggest evolutions to date: revision and note-taking resources, known as Stile X. Why branch out into revision and note-taking resources? Other than it just sounding like a great idea, there