Sam Gibbs
Trust Curriculum and Development Lead, Greater Manchester Education Trust
Sam Gibbs is Director of Education at Greater Manchester Education Trust. She is an experienced English teacher, school leader and teacher educator who has worked with schools across the country on teaching and learning, curriculum and professional development. Sam is Deputy Chair of Trust Wide CPD Leaders, a national network of over 250 trusts who lead professional development at scale. She is also co-author of The Trouble With English and How to Address It: A Practical Guide to Designing and Delivering a Concept-Led Curriculum (Routledge: 2022) and the forthcoming Love The One You’re With: Why Teachers Stay and What We Can Learn from Them (John Catt: 2025).
1 Workshop series two
Capacity, context and change: A people-powered approach to school improvement
Join Sam Gibbs and Tracy Goodyear as they explore how genuine collaboration becomes the engine of sustainable school improvement. The session will be centred around the Trust-wide CPD Leaders' Networks' Six Contextual Lenses, demonstrating how sensitive, intelligent understanding of context allows school improvement and staff development to work in harmony. Drawing on work from their own trusts and the Trust-wide CPD Leaders' Forum, Sam and Tracy will share insights into developing subject leadership at scale, building capacity through expertise, and empowering colleagues to think critically about change.