Step 3: Sustain momentum and embed lasting impact

Matt Hanlon

May 28, 2025 • 3 min read

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, targeted support and meaningful recognition, you can maintain momentum and ensure professional learning translates into real, lasting change.

• Plan the next cycle

• Offer coaching or targeted support

• Celebrate and recognise growth

• Track progress

• Share early wins

Stile Academy is most effective when it becomes part of your school's shared professional language. Use structured opportunities for peer sharing to normalise and celebrate the work.

Consider: Quick moments of sharing in staff or department meetings where teachers discuss their Teaching Tweak, or one of their “key takeaways” from a Spark ideas lesson.

Track progress

Monitoring engagement doesn’t mean micromanaging. Instead, it’s about gaining visibility into how your team is progressing so you can offer timely encouragement and support.

What to track:

Module completion rates (Who’s started? Who’s finished?)
Which modules are being explored
Pacing across the term or semester

Tip: Use Stile Academy’s tracking tools to view engagement data in your admin tools. (Coming soon!)

Check-ins are a powerful way to keep professional learning active and reflective. These can be formal (surveys, coaching conversations) or informal (discussion prompts at a staff meeting). The goal is to surface insights, highlight challenges and create space for peer learning.

Sample discussion prompts:

What strategy did you try from your last module? How did it go?
What student impact have you noticed so far?
What’s been your biggest takeaway – or your biggest hurdle?

Encouraging teachers to talk about their experiences helps shift Stile Academy from individual PD to a shared professional dialogue.

Offer coaching or targeted support

Some teachers may need more time, guidance or confidence to fully engage with Stile Academy. Consider offering optional coaching check-ins or pairing teachers up in buddy groups for mutual support.

Practical ways to offer support:

Short 1:1 chats to clarify module content or refine a Teaching Tweak
Pairing experienced teachers with newer ones for informal mentoring
Create year-level sprint groups
Using shared planning time to troubleshoot or co-plan implementation strategies

And of course, you can always reach out to your Stile Learning Partner.

Celebrate and recognise growth

Recognition reinforces value and drives continued engagement:

Public shout-outs in newsletters or staff meetings
A “Wall of Practice” for showcasing classroom strategies
End-of-term celebrations of progress and learning

Plan the next cycle

Teacher voice is central to sustaining engagement. After completing one full sprint, it’s important to pause, zoom out, and reflect on both the process and the outcomes. Invite staff to reflect not only on the content of the modules, but on how useful they’ve found the process overall.

What worked well?
What could we do differently?
What impact did we see in student learning?

Over time, you might invite experienced staff to lead peer sessions on a topic they have explored or a Teaching Tweak they’ve implemented. Before each term ends:

Share the next focus module (if shared), or invite new module choices (if self-paced)
Revisit goals and highlight how learning continues

Final thoughts

Sustaining engagement with Stile Academy requires more than just assigning modules – it’s about thoughtful leadership, responsive planning, and a culture of continuous improvement. By guiding your team through these 3 steps, you’re embedding evidence-based practice into the everyday rhythm of your school – and investing in better outcomes for both teachers and students

Step 1: Lay the foundations for success

Step 2: Launch with clarity, confidence and purpose

Step 3: Monitor and support progress

Following these 3 steps will ensure you’re building a strong foundation for continuous growth. You’re equipping your team with flexible, subject-specific PD that’s designed for the real world of teaching.

Your commitment to professional growth creates ripples that reach far beyond your department, into every science classroom and every student learning experience. Thank you for leading the way. We’re here to help you every step alongside you.

Let’s make professional learning meaningful, practical and lasting.

Share early wins