HOW IT WORKS

The five introductory sessions are one hour each — typically run fortnightly, so around ten weeks in total. After that, the ongoing community meets regularly but is designed to fit around your working life, not add to it. The weekly resources are bitesize and always available as audio files — five to ten minutes, not another evening of reading.

No. This is professional peer supervision — the kind of structured external support that medicine and social work have had for decades, but schools have never prioritised. It's designed to improve leadership capacity and retention, not to stick a plaster over systemic problems 

The online community brings together middle leaders from different schools — which means you get genuine candour, different perspectives, and a space that feels completely separate from your own school politics. The school-based option keeps your community within your own staff, which works well for building internal trust and school culture, and includes an Impact Audit for senior leaders, governors and inspectors. Both include the same five sessions and ongoing support.

Yes. What's said in the community stays in the community. There is no reporting to your school, no line manager involvement, and no link to your appraisal. facilitators are experienced school leaders who will maintain professional boundaries throughout. 

Download the School Proposal from our Resources page — it's a ready-made one-page document that translates the programme into budget and retention language for any Headteacher. It includes the cost comparison between one agency recruitment fee and a full year of peer coaching for five leaders.

The programme is specifically designed for middle leaders — Heads of Department, Heads of Year, curriculum leads and similar roles. If you're in a different role and think this might be right for you, get in touch and we'll talk it through. 

The Growth Network is in its founding phase. The introductory prices (£60 online / £450 school-based) are available to our first cohort of members and schools. Once those founding spaces are filled, pricing will move to the standard rates. There's no deadline pressure — but founding members do get the best value.

Session times are flexible and agreed with your school to fit your staff's schedules. We work with you to find times that work best for your middle leaders - whether that's during directed time, twilight sessions, or another arrangement that suits your school day.