Implementation and change
How people experience change, and how to sequence, communicate and sustain it. I've gathered webinars, podcast episodes and articles on leading change in schools, and on how people experience it.
Practices in this area:Sequencing changeStages of concernCommunicationReducing change loadSustaining
Interview
Teacher magazine (ACER) · 2:52 · F-12 · Australia
Dylan Wiliam shares tips for changing teaching practice in a short Teacher magazine video. Handy for opening a staff or coaching conversation about change.
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Explainer
Education Endowment Foundation · 3:46 · F-12 · UK
The Education Endowment Foundation's video overview of its guidance report A School's Guide to Implementation. Handy for opening a leadership discussion about a planned change.
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Webinar
Think Forward Educators, with Karina Stocker · About 70 minutes · 2026 · Australia
Karina Stocker shares research on what helps MTSS last in Victorian schools and what quietly undermines it, giving leaders a way to diagnose their own implementation.
FreeOpens at thinkforwardeducators.org
Webinar
Think Forward Educators, with Sarah Kelly · 30 to 60 minutes · 2023 · Australia
Regional Victorian principal Sarah Kelly recounts moving her school away from a levelled reading approach, and how the leadership team built staff knowledge and a shared vision.
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Webinar
Think Forward Educators, with Zach Groshell, Christie Barrett and Kathleen O'Rourke · 30 to 60 minutes · 2023 · Australia
Zach Groshell explains cognitive biases that make teaching practice hard to shift, and two school leaders describe how coaching colleagues through change played out in their settings.
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Webinar
Think Forward Educators, with Lachlan Yeates, Cranbourne Primary School · 30 to 60 minutes · 2023 · Australia
Principal Lachlan Yeates describes how Cranbourne Primary rose from the bottom of its network to the top in three years, covering staff buy-in, behaviour and leadership mindsets.
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Webinar
Think Forward Educators, with Ross Fox, Catholic Education Canberra-Goulburn · 30 to 60 minutes · 2024 · Australia
Ross Fox shares how Catholic Education Canberra-Goulburn has led Catalyst, a system-wide shift to evidence-based reading and teaching practice across its schools, and what the change involved.
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Webinar
Ark Curriculum Plus, with Jonathan Sharples · About 1 hour · UK
Professor Jonathan Sharples speaks about successful implementation in a webinar from Ark Curriculum Plus. Useful for leadership teams planning a change.
FreeOpens at youtube.com
Making change stick
Education Research Reading Room · with James Mannion
James Mannion discusses his book Making Change Stick and how schools and organisations can implement changes so that they last.
FreeOpens at ollielovell.com
Fewer, deeper priorities
Education Research Reading Room · with Viviane Robinson
Viviane Robinson discusses her book Reduce Change to Increase Improvement and her engagement approach to leading school improvement.
FreeOpens at ollielovell.com
Coaching, culture and change
Knowledge for Teachers · with Zach Groshell
Zach Groshell, author of Just Tell Them, joins Brendan Lee for a second conversation on what schools need to consider about coaching, culture and change.
FreeOpens at knowledgeforteachers.podbean.com
De-implementation
Education Research Reading Room · with Arran Hamilton and Dylan Wiliam
Arran Hamilton and Dylan Wiliam discuss Making Room for Impact and de-implementation, the work of deciding what schools should stop doing to free time for what matters.
FreeOpens at ollielovell.com
Learning Forward · Tool · USA
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Rebecca Birch (On Education) · Substack · 2024 · Australia
Opens at rebeccabirch.substack.com
Tom Sherrington · Substack · 2026 · UK
Sherrington describes a predictable pattern when ideas such as retrieval practice spread, from scattered pockets to mass adoption that loses nuance, then to deeper, better practice, and why leaders should expect it.
FreeOpens at tomsherrington.substack.com
Haili Hughes · Substack · 2026 · Australia
Hughes reflects on the hostility in Australia's debates about explicit teaching and the science of reading, linking it to teacher identity and suggesting how leaders can help teachers reconsider practice.
FreeOpens at hailihughes.substack.com
Rebecca Birch (On Education) · Substack · 2025 · Australia
Birch welcomes Australia's shift towards explicit teaching but names five risks to the reform, including rushed rollout, thin resources and unclear messaging, and how leaders can avoid another pendulum swing.
FreeOpens at rebeccabirch.substack.com
