Associated organisations

Find out more about our associated organisations which support the School Improvement Conference in March 2026.

Conference sponsors

Community supporters

AQA

AQA Education

Since 1903, we’ve been rewarding achievement by designing and delivering fair and inclusive assessment. We do this because quality assessment is an essential ingredient for a good education.

We set and mark the papers for around half of all GCSEs and A-levels, but we’re more than an exam board. As an independent education charity we reinvest all of our income. From funding cutting-edge research, to supporting new insights that help raise the bar in assessment practice internationally, we’re always focused on fair and inclusive assessment and the positive impact it has on teaching, learning and society.

Find out more: aqa.org.uk

Evidence Based Education

We started with the Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review, which gave us the Model for Great Teaching - our curriculum for teacher learning.

With this curriculum in place, we went on to develop the Great Teaching Toolkit.

The Great Teaching Toolkit helps teachers to:
• Set specific goals for improving their classroom, where everyone’s voice is heard.
• Build understanding in areas that make the most difference.
• Develop skills through modelling, instruction, safe rehearsal and feedback.
• Embed habits with development cycles of deliberate practice, feedback and reflection.

We aim to improve education at scale, in a way that is authentic, sustainable and replicable.

Find out more: evidencebased.education

Steplab

Steplab is built by teachers, for teachers.

As either former or serving teachers and school leaders, we acutely understand the challenges of improving teaching. Steplab has been built to help schools and trusts tackle these challenges, and systematically improve teaching. We’re deeply passionate about serving teachers, and work closely with schools to keep improving our platform. In the last six years, we’re proud to have helped over 1000 schools and trusts to get better. We currently work with over 88,000 teachers in the UK and internationally, and have enabled coaches to set over 500,000 precise, actionable improvement steps to help teachers develop their practice.

Find out more: steplab.co

Partner organisations

EntrySign

EntrySign is at the forefront of advanced visitor and contractor management, being the preferred sign-in solution for countless schools and organisations globally. EntrySign are committed to providing the latest innovations, features, and integrations to elevate on-site security, optimise building entry, enhance safety procedures, and improve regulatory compliance. EntrySign empowers organisations with a solution to effortlessly and efficiently sign in, secure and safeguard their people and premises every day.

Find out more: entrysign.co.uk

Hachette Learning

We are an education publisher with over 150 years of expertise, now focused on helping schools navigate an increasingly complex landscape. As priorities like teaching quality, attainment, inclusion, data use and teacher development become more interconnected, schools need solutions that work together—not in isolation. We provide those solutions globally, combining digital platforms, high‑quality print resources, assessment, intervention and professional development. Our purpose is to unlock every learner’s potential, supporting whole‑school improvement through four connected areas: Teach, Learn, Assess and Enable. This framework clearly communicates the full breadth of what we do and how we turn educational ambition into sustained impact.

Find out more: hachettelearning.com