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Need to know<\/h3>\n\n- Simon specialises in creating practical frameworks and tools that educational leaders use to improve their practice<\/li>\n
- Created the Teaching Sprints method, and co-authored the book Teaching Sprints<\/li>\n
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales and advisor to NSW Department of Education on school leadership and curriculum reform<\/li>\n
- PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge, as a Gates Scholar<\/li>\n
- Founder of Strategic Schools, an organisation focused on system-wide change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
For speaking, workshops, and media inquiries, use the form here.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nYou can also send his team an email at team@simonbreakspear.com.<\/p>\n
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Bio<\/h3>\n
Dr Simon Breakspear is a researcher, advisor and speaker on educational leadership, policy and change. Simon develops frameworks and tools that make evidence-based ideas actionable and easy to understand. Over the last decade his capability building work has given him the opportunity to work with over 100,000 educators across more than 10 countries.<\/p>\n
Simon is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at UNSW. He serves as an advisor to the NSW Department of Education and sits on an expert steering committee for the Australia Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL). Simon received his BPsych (Hons) from UNSW, his MSc in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oxford and his PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge. Simon began his work in education as a high school teacher.<\/p>\n
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Teaching Sprints<\/h1>\nHow Overloaded Educators Can Keep Getting Better<\/h2>\n
Book published by Corwin Press <\/a><\/span>(2021)<\/span><\/p>\nVisit the Teaching Sprints website<\/span><\/a> and learn more about the book.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”15px” text_line_height=”1.3em” header_font=”Montserrat||||||||” header_2_font=”||||||||” header_2_text_color=”#000000″ header_2_font_size=”32px” header_3_font=”Montserrat|700|||||||” header_3_text_color=”#000000″ header_3_font_size=”18px” header_4_font=”|700|||||||” header_4_font_size=”15px” text_orientation=”justified” custom_padding=”||||false|false” text_font_tablet=”” text_font_phone=”Default|300|||||||” text_font_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education):<\/h3>\n
Report on ‘Developing Agile Leaders of Learning: School leadership policy for dynamic times’.\u00a0View article ><\/a><\/span><\/p>\nCentre for Strategic Education:<\/h3>\n
Occasional Paper, ‘Agile Implementation – Learning how adopting an agile mindset can help leaders achieve meaningful progress in student learning. View article ><\/a><\/span><\/p>\nHow does PISA Shape Education Policy, Nov 2014:<\/h3>\n
Why how we measure learning determines what counts in education.\u00a0Download PDF ><\/a><\/span><\/p>\nTalent Magnets, May 2009:<\/h3>\n
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About<\/h2>\n
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\nDr Simon Breakspear is a researcher, policy advisor and speaker on education policy, practice and change. Simon develops frameworks, tools and programs<\/a> that make evidence-based ideas easy to understand and apply. Simon and his team partner with schools and systems around the world. Over the last decade he has worked with over 100,000 educators across 10 countries, and is known for his engaging, practical and evidence-informed approach.<\/p>\nSimon is the founder of Agile School Leadership<\/a>, a program and community of committed leaders that are harnessing research evidence and agile improvement methods to create sustainable change within their schools despite growing complexity and uncertainty.<\/p>\nSimon is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, an advisor to the NSW Department of Education School Leadership Institute<\/a>, and serves on the Australia Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) Expert Standing Committee. He has been a Fellow of WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education).<\/p>\nSimon is the co-author of the book Teaching Sprints: How overloaded educators can keep getting better (Corwin Press, 2021)<\/a> and creator of the Teaching Sprints approach to professional learning<\/a>. Teaching Sprints is used by thousands of educators across the planet to engage with relevant research evidence and enhance their adaptive expertise.<\/p>\nSimon received his BPsych (Hons) from UNSW, his MSc in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oxford and his PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge. He was a Commonwealth Scholar at Oxford and a Gates Scholar at Cambridge. Simon began his work in education as a high school teacher and lives in Sydney with his wife and 3 children.[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ disabled_on=”on|on|on” _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” disabled=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” width=”30%” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Join us on LinkedIn” url=”https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/simonbreakspear\/” url_new_window=”on” use_icon=”on” font_icon=”||fa||400″ _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_text_align=”center” header_font_size=”22px” link_option_url=”https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/simonbreakspear\/” link_option_url_new_window=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Join us on Twitter” url=”https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonbreakspear” url_new_window=”on” use_icon=”on” font_icon=”||fa||400″ _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_text_align=”center” header_font_size=”23px” link_option_url=”https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonbreakspear” link_option_url_new_window=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” disabled_on=”on|on|on” admin_label=”Message” _builder_version=”4.16.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_margin_tablet=”10px||||false|false” custom_margin_phone=”0px||||false|false” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding_tablet=”” custom_padding_phone=”20px||0px||false|false” disabled=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” width=”100%” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16.1″ _module_preset=”default” header_3_font=”EB Garamond||||||||” header_3_font_size=”32px” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”30px||15px||false|false” custom_padding_tablet=”30px||15px|10px|false|false” custom_padding_phone=”30px||15px|10px|false|false” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
A message from Simon<\/h3>\n
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Hi I\u2019m Simon Breakspear,<\/p>\n
I\u2019m an educational researcher and advisor, who helps leaders and their teams to adopt new evidence-informed ways of thinking and working. I\u2019m an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at UNSW, and am fortunate to spend most days of the week working with leaders serving in schools and system roles. Through my speaking, advisory and capacity building work, I partner with educators in order to help them to clarify their thinking, apply relevant evidence and effectively implement for impact. I\u2019m flexible in how I work, but am relentlessly focused on improving the learning and life outcomes of young people.<\/p>\n
In all my work, I\u2019m driven by my personal mission of unlocking human potential through improving education systems. This started when I dropped out of my medical degree at UNSW to become a teacher. Now as a researcher and advisor, I see my key role is to take complicated ideas and turn them into easy-to-understand frameworks and actionable tools that can support busy practitioners to be more impactful. By sharing fresh ideas I try to help leaders get beyond the default ways of leading educational change and create sustainable change that is appropriate for their unique local contexts.<\/p>\n
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My normal approach is to find a \u2018sticky\u2019 problem from the field that I really want to make progress on and then work from research to practice. I scan the research literature and international practice to draw out the \u2018best bets.\u2019 My team and I then work alongside educators in the field to co-create prototypes of new approaches. After months (or years) of testing and iterating, I share what I\u2019ve learned with other educators to enable them to adopt and adapt in a way that is appropriate for their own context. It\u2019s no surprise that I\u2019ve learned that practitioners often have the best ideas.<\/p>\n
After a decade of working shoulder-to-shoulder with leading practitioners, I\u2019ve learned that educational change is both complex and deeply human. I definitely don\u2019t claim to have all the answers nor any simple silver bullets for creating school systems that we need. I\u2019ve become convinced that when practitioners on the ground are supported with useful research, frameworks and tools, making meaningful progress is possible. I hope you\u2019ll find some of my ideas and lessons useful to your work.<\/p>\n
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For speaking, workshops, and media inquiries, use the form here.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n You can also send his team an email at team@simonbreakspear.com.<\/p>\n Download bio & introduction.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Dr Simon Breakspear is a researcher, advisor and speaker on educational leadership, policy and change. Simon develops frameworks and tools that make evidence-based ideas actionable and easy to understand. Over the last decade his capability building work has given him the opportunity to work with over 100,000 educators across more than 10 countries.<\/p>\n Simon is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at UNSW. He serves as an advisor to the NSW Department of Education and sits on an expert steering committee for the Australia Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL). Simon received his BPsych (Hons) from UNSW, his MSc in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oxford and his PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge. 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Simon develops frameworks, tools and programs<\/a> that make evidence-based ideas easy to understand and apply. Simon and his team partner with schools and systems around the world. Over the last decade he has worked with over 100,000 educators across 10 countries, and is known for his engaging, practical and evidence-informed approach.<\/p>\n Simon is the founder of Agile School Leadership<\/a>, a program and community of committed leaders that are harnessing research evidence and agile improvement methods to create sustainable change within their schools despite growing complexity and uncertainty.<\/p>\n Simon is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, an advisor to the NSW Department of Education School Leadership Institute<\/a>, and serves on the Australia Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) Expert Standing Committee. He has been a Fellow of WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education).<\/p>\n Simon is the co-author of the book Teaching Sprints: How overloaded educators can keep getting better (Corwin Press, 2021)<\/a> and creator of the Teaching Sprints approach to professional learning<\/a>. Teaching Sprints is used by thousands of educators across the planet to engage with relevant research evidence and enhance their adaptive expertise.<\/p>\n Simon received his BPsych (Hons) from UNSW, his MSc in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oxford and his PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge. He was a Commonwealth Scholar at Oxford and a Gates Scholar at Cambridge. 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I\u2019m an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at UNSW, and am fortunate to spend most days of the week working with leaders serving in schools and system roles. Through my speaking, advisory and capacity building work, I partner with educators in order to help them to clarify their thinking, apply relevant evidence and effectively implement for impact. I\u2019m flexible in how I work, but am relentlessly focused on improving the learning and life outcomes of young people.<\/p>\n In all my work, I\u2019m driven by my personal mission of unlocking human potential through improving education systems. This started when I dropped out of my medical degree at UNSW to become a teacher. Now as a researcher and advisor, I see my key role is to take complicated ideas and turn them into easy-to-understand frameworks and actionable tools that can support busy practitioners to be more impactful. By sharing fresh ideas I try to help leaders get beyond the default ways of leading educational change and create sustainable change that is appropriate for their unique local contexts.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||||false|false” custom_padding_tablet=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding_phone=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”EB Garamond|500|||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_line_height=”1.2em” header_text_color=”#000000″ header_font_size=”36px” header_2_font=”Georgia||||||||” header_2_text_color=”#000000″ header_2_font_size=”27px” header_2_line_height=”2em” text_orientation=”justified” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_margin_tablet=”||0px||false|false” custom_margin_phone=”” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding=”34px||0px||false|false” custom_padding_tablet=”” custom_padding_phone=”|5px||5px|false|false” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|desktop” text_font_tablet=”” text_font_phone=”Sarabun|300|||||||” text_font_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n My normal approach is to find a \u2018sticky\u2019 problem from the field that I really want to make progress on and then work from research to practice. I scan the research literature and international practice to draw out the \u2018best bets.\u2019 My team and I then work alongside educators in the field to co-create prototypes of new approaches. After months (or years) of testing and iterating, I share what I\u2019ve learned with other educators to enable them to adopt and adapt in a way that is appropriate for their own context. It\u2019s no surprise that I\u2019ve learned that practitioners often have the best ideas.<\/p>\n After a decade of working shoulder-to-shoulder with leading practitioners, I\u2019ve learned that educational change is both complex and deeply human. I definitely don\u2019t claim to have all the answers nor any simple silver bullets for creating school systems that we need. I\u2019ve become convinced that when practitioners on the ground are supported with useful research, frameworks and tools, making meaningful progress is possible. I hope you\u2019ll find some of my ideas and lessons useful to your work.<\/p>\n You can find me on LinkedIn<\/a><\/span>, Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/span> and Facebook<\/a><\/span><\/span>. 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Papers & Publications<\/h2>\n
Teaching Sprints<\/h1>\n
How Overloaded Educators Can Keep Getting Better<\/h2>\n
WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education):<\/h3>\n
Centre for Strategic Education:<\/h3>\n
How does PISA Shape Education Policy, Nov 2014:<\/h3>\n
Talent Magnets, May 2009:<\/h3>\n
Latest from Simon<\/h2>\n
\nAbout<\/h2>\n
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