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Leadership Networking

Throughout 2024-25, we want to do even more to support you and give you more control over what you need and when you need it. Our flagship national conferences, 3 times a year per sector, remain the central dates of the PiXL calendar and most of our resources and strategy releases are launched there. You will also hear from schools having impact and specialist keynote speakers. These conferences are planned based on the things our members want to hear about and are a time for making connections and contacts. 

We believe in the power of learning from each other and have enhanced our approach to networking to give you what you are asking for. We want to help you feel even more empowered and equipped in your leadership, and we hope that these 5 new developments will help that become even more of a reality, all included as part of the 2024/25 membership.

Your PiXL Specialist – This is your designated person (previously called PiXL associate) to work alongside you all year round to discuss your Wildly Important Goals, barriers and school priorities, all part of the improving outcome conversations. However, now you can book 15, 30 or 45 minutes at a time that suits you, whenever you like, as often as you like.

Book a surgery – Sometimes you need to get into the details of a resource or strategy or a curriculum area so that you understand how to implement it. Sometimes you need time to talk and be listened to as to work through your own thinking. Book one of our many specialists that are experts in a range of areas, such as reading, curriculum, character and culture, teaching and learning, leadership, PiXL strategies and more.  Get specific, bespoke support at a time that suits you.

Networks – Join like-minded people who are all facing the same challenge and share practical ideas and solutions on this specific issue in our networks. Don’t be alone. Connect and share, don’t be stuck!

Topical Online Forums – These are for the big issues of education that hit the headlines and that need our heads together. Sometimes they will be interviews with experts, sometimes a 20-minute interactive ‘Big Think’ where we share ideas at speed.

Open days– Time to get out of your school and get a fresh perspective. See strategies in action, speak to leaders, meet other people. Get some time to think with others.

We believe in belonging, connection and community, bringing our network together to be solution focused and responsive. There is power in this network, brilliant ideas to unlock if we just create the time and space to think.

 

  • PiXL’s work is truly remarkable and has been a saviour and sanctuary of common sense and really useful strategies at a time of madness!

    Headteacher, PiXL Secondary school

  • For me, PiXL is a community of like-minded learners who have a moral imperative to raise standards and support children and schools to be better – who wouldn't want to be in PiXL?

    Executive Headteacher, PiXL Primary school

  • PiXL provides a reassuring touchstone, and never more has that been so important to school leaders. PiXL is populated with like-minded and motivated colleagues who give due thought and consideration about how to best approach the myriad of decisions school leaders take every day. I've worked with PiXL for 8 years now and every meeting leaves me inspired to try new ideas, reassured about things my school is doing well and resolved to continually do better for the young people in my school.

    Headteacher, PiXL Secondary school

  • Post-16 support and resources are top quality — the adaptability of resources makes tailoring them to your students straightforward. The PiXL team are always open to suggestions and strive to ensure hard-working and innovative staff have a support base. They inspire teachers of all levels of experience.

    Senior Leader, PiXL Post 16 school

  • I can honestly say this has been one of the instrumental factors in our success story. The ideas, resources and expertise, which has been so willingly shared by the whole PiXL team, has enabled our Sixth Form to continually change and radically improve. Every single meeting has been packed with fresh ideas and practical tips to help students thrive, both academically and also as a well-rounded individual.

    Headteacher, PiXL Post 16 school

  • PiXL is more than just a network of schools; it is a welcoming organisation, with highly experienced people, offering unparalleled professional support and CPD. PiXL will continue to improve the education system and culture of the schools, Sixth Forms and colleges who introduce and embed their strategies, as it has already.

    Senior Leader, PiXL Post 16 school

  • We have used PiXL in our personal development package, in our interventions, in whole-school teaching and learning CPD and with our staff through PiXL Change. My respect for PiXL has grown and grown.

    Senior Leader, PiXL Post 16 school

  • PiXL has been a huge support network for our academies during these challenging times and has guided us, assisted us and provided us with resources to support our leaders, teachers and pupils. The PiXL team listen to us, take on feedback, ask us what we need and adapt their research and provision in order to suit all of our school’s different needs.

    Executive Headteacher, PiXL Primary school

  • As a member, PiXL provides our school with a wealth of professional development opportunities and high-quality resources for all areas of the core curriculum. Their approach of diagnosis, therapy, testing and revisiting enables us to easily identify children’s next steps on a one-to-one, small group and whole-class basis and then tailor our interventions and whole-class teaching to fill their gaps.

    Executive Headteacher, PiXL Primary school

  • The opportunity to work with such a strong, supportive, diverse team of highly–skilled professionals from across the country, as a PiXL family, has been a very valuable experience in developing the breadth and depth of my knowledge and skill–set, both as a teacher and a leader. Schools, staff and children lie at the heart of everything they do. The question on everyone’s lips is always: ‘What do schools need?’

    Executive Headteacher, PiXL Primary school

  • The beauty of PiXL is that you can pick and mix what you need and make it work for your school; you can be as PiXL as you want to be – it's a continuum.

    Headteacher, PiXL Secondary school

  • I trust my leaders with PiXL: PiXL leadership moves with the times and develops all tiers of leaders, ranging from my new middle leaders to my most experienced Heads of School. It has inspired them to question and challenge themselves, whilst holding their hand and supporting their next steps.

    Headteacher, PiXL Post 16 school

  • In a world of uncertainty, PiXL continues to show its true worth to schools across the nation. The integrity and humility with which the organisation works are quite unique in the world of education support and their drive to focus on the best for our young people is indubitable. Constantly offering support in key areas where the need is greatest, PiXL continues to be the greatest source of support imaginable.

    Headteacher, PiXL Secondary school

  • PiXL is completely driven by its values and moral purpose, acting solely in the interests of the young people in our schools by helping and supporting staff to choose the most appropriate, evidence-informed strategies and resources for their students. PiXL is an incredibly agile organisation in which the exceptional team is able to provide whatever support schools need in the interests of their students.

    Senior Leader, PiXL Post 16 school

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