Building better education.
We work with schools and organisations to translate abstract education theory and research into durable practice, creating lasting improvement, strong learning cultures, and more confident students.
We work with schools and organisations to translate abstract education theory and research into durable practice, creating lasting improvement, strong learning cultures, and more confident students.
Five themes with a big impact on education, each one something you can work on to make teaching and learning better.
Formative action is built into the curriculum, not bolted on. By closing the gap between goals, learning activities and assessment, everything pulls in the same direction, giving students a coherent path from first lesson to final assessment.
High-frequency, short coaching cycles that shift not just habits but the mental models behind them, because durable change starts with how teachers and leaders understand learning, not just with what they do.
Our longer-term programmes build the capacity inside your school to carry the change yourselves. Together we develop internal expertise, co-create practical tools and work to a durable plan, from explore to sustain. An interactive website tracks progress and keeps the work alive between sessions.
AI is only useful when it fits your learning goals. We design backwards from those goals, so students still do the thinking that learning requires.
Self-regulation is learned, not assumed. It develops through explicit teaching, structured practice, metacognitive reflection and gradually releasing responsibility to students.
Keynotes, training, professional development (PD), school trajectories and advice, grounded in the science of learning and tailored to the school.
Valentina Devid and Samuel Derkse both work in and on education. Most change stalls in the gap between a good idea and everyday practice, so we work both sides of that gap at once.
A former teacher and middle leader, Valentina has spent years as a trainer and adviser, in the Netherlands and increasingly across international contexts. She works at the level of implementation, leadership and whole-school development: how to make change durable rather than a project that fades within a year.
Samuel Derkse is a teacher of Dutch, a learning-support specialist and a daily practitioner of formative action. He teaches every day, so he knows what survives the moment an idea meets the realities of the classroom.
Tell us about your school, your team or your event. We'll reply within two working days with a way forward.