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Training courses

Teach for the world they will live in.

Training for teachers and leaders, grounded in neuroscience and built for an AI world. Every package sits under one of three umbrellas.

30%

rise in attainment

45%

better attendance & engagement

5,000+

professionals trained worldwide

Three umbrellas

Some courses are tried and proven in shifting attainment, attendance and engagement. Others are built bespoke to meet your goals.

Neuroscience of Engagement & Learning

Teach the way the brain actually learns.

01Making Learning Visible Tried & proven

When learners and teachers can see where they are, where they're going and what comes next, progress accelerates.

Your school gains

  • Clear success criteria learners can use themselves
  • Feedback and self-assessment routines that show real progress
  • Classrooms where thinking is seen, shared and built on
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02Closing the Two Sigma Gap

In 1984, Benjamin Bloom found that one-to-one tutoring with mastery learning lifted students two standard deviations: the average tutored learner outperformed around 98% of peers in a conventional class.

His real question, the “Two Sigma Problem”, was how to achieve something close to that at scale, without one expert teacher for every learner. Forty years on, hybrid learning finally gives us new ways to answer it.

The model: the project gives purpose and real application; AI gives each learner responsive, individual support; teachers lead the relationships, judgement, motivation and collaboration that only humans can.

Your school gains

  • Mastery learning and feedback cycles that work at class scale
  • A practical hybrid model: where AI support helps, and where humans must lead
  • Learners who progress when ready, not when the calendar says
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03Beyond Recall

Move learners from remembering to understanding, applying and creating, so knowledge becomes usable, not just testable.

Your school gains

  • Retrieval and transfer techniques grounded in cognitive science
  • Task design that builds deep thinking
  • Assessment that shows real understanding
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04Motivation by Design Tried & proven

The science of attention, curiosity and reward. Design lessons learners want to lean into.

Your school gains

  • How attention and motivation work in the adolescent brain
  • Lesson hooks, challenge and autonomy that build intrinsic drive
  • Measurable gains in attendance and engagement
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05The Myth of the Year Group Tried & proven

Age is not readiness. Rethink how learners are grouped and progressed, so every child moves at the pace of their understanding.

Your school gains

  • Practical models for stage-not-age grouping
  • Strategies to stretch the ready and support the rest
  • A plan to pilot flexible progression in your school
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Leaders in Education

Lead the change, don't just manage it.

Led by Tirzah Elese: Master's in Leadership & Management, and 15 years as a Director leading 450 schools.

01Leading Education Change Tried & proven

Transformational leadership for schools ready to evolve: set the vision, win hearts and minds, and make change stick.

Your school gains

  • A clear change roadmap for your context
  • Tools to build staff buy-in and shared ownership
  • Ways to sustain momentum beyond the launch
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02Human Authority

As AI enters every classroom, keep human judgement, wisdom and responsibility at the centre of learning.

Your school gains

  • Clear principles for human decision-making in an AI school
  • Roles and responsibilities for staff, learners and tools
  • Confidence to lead the conversation with parents and governors
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03Learners First Leaders

Grow student leadership and agency through the RISE framework: Realise, Innovate, Strategise, Execute.

Your school gains

  • Structures that give learners real ownership
  • RISE embedded in projects and school life
  • Confident, capable young leaders across the school
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04Beyond the Credentials Tried & proven

The world needs more than top grades. Equip teachers to build the real-world skills and character the future demands.

Your school gains

  • A shared language for the skills that matter beyond the exam
  • Practical ways to teach and evidence real-world capability
  • A culture that values who learners become, not just what they score
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AI in Education

Tools in our hands. Purpose in our minds.

Cutting-edge, practical and hands-on: exactly how AI can lighten teacher workload and personalise learning.

01Extend, Never Replace Tried & proven

Use AI to extend what great teachers do, never to replace the relationships at the heart of learning. Leave with workflows you'll use on Monday.

Your school gains

  • Hands-on AI for planning, marking, feedback and differentiation
  • Hours of workload saved each week, reinvested in learners
  • Clear lines between AI support and human teaching
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02The 80/20 Rule, Inverted

Flip the classroom ratio: 20% teaching, 80% learners doing, creating and solving real problems, with AI personalising the support each learner needs.

Your school gains

  • A model for project-rich, personalised lessons
  • AI workflows that free teachers to coach, not just deliver
  • Real-world projects mapped to curriculum outcomes
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03Guardrails, Not Guesswork

Safe, ethical and confident AI use across your school, with clear policy and practical boundaries.

Your school gains

  • A ready-to-adapt AI policy and acceptable-use guide
  • Safeguarding, privacy and academic integrity covered
  • Staff and learners who know what good looks like
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04What Is School For Now?

A provocative, hopeful session for staff, leaders and governors on the purpose of school in the age of AI.

Your school gains

  • A shared vision for your school's future
  • Clarity on what to keep, change and let go
  • Energy and alignment across your whole community
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for your students

Bring ExelQuests into your school

Embed real-world quests in your timetable, as enrichment, electives or cross-curricular projects, with training for your staff to lead them.

Need something bespoke?

We regularly design training around a school's own goals. INSET days, workshop series or full programmes.

Design it with us
Tirzah Elese

Speaking

Book Tirzah to speak

Keynotes, conference sessions and INSET openers that leave audiences energised, better equipped and excited to grow forward.

  • The future of learning in an AI world
  • The neuroscience of engagement
  • Transformational leadership in education
  • What is school for now?