Professor Rob Coe
How do Leaders Shape an Environment for Great Teaching and Learning?
Teaching and learning is the core purpose of schools and has to be the focus for any improvement strategy. Fortunately, research gives us strong guidance about what great teaching looks like and how it closes attainment gaps - though it isn't always what we think.
School leaders contribute to this by creating an environment for learning and prioritising high-quality professional development. This talk will set out the relevant underpinning research and make practical recommendations for an evidence-based approach to excellence and equity.
More about Rob
Rob is Director of Research and Development at Evidence Based Education and Senior Associate at the Education Endowment Foundation.
His research covers assessment, evaluation and evidence-based practice, with a focus on working with teachers and schools to connect evidence with practice.
He is lead author of The 2020 Great Teaching Toolkit and co-author of the Education Endowment Foundation’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit, The DIY Evaluation Guide for Teachers and the Teacher Development Trust’s Developing Great Teaching report.
In July 2025 he was appointed to the expert panel of the new independent enquiry into White Working Class Educational Outcomes.
Ready to find out more?
Read Rob’s recent SchoolsWeek article.
