Join us this summer We made it! To the final term of the year. We are pleased to share with you what we have on offer this summer, we hope you're able to join us. Join us at an event… Birmingham Lead Meet Our Birmingham Lead Meet takes place on Saturday 25th April 2026 with presentations from Adam Brett-Aguirre, Adrian McLean, Azuraye Williams, Jonathan Smart and Rachael Jackson-Royal; coaching circles facilitated by Hiral Kelly and Julia Hancock; with a growing exhibitor marketplace including Aluna Behaviour Consultancy, Boundless Learning, Step Up Network and the Diary Toolkit.

NEW BLOG POST: Join us this summer.

Find a full breakdown of all of our summer activities. There's a lot and we hope you can join us.

Our stance on social media When Step Up Network CIC started in 2022, X (formerly Twitter) was where we found our voice. It was where we shared our first ideas, connected with people who believed in what we were building, and began growing a community around our work. For that, we’re genuinely grateful. But as we’ve evolved, so has the way we think about communication, community, and impact.

LATEST BLOG: Our SHIFTING Stance on Social Media

Will you be joining us in Birmingham? In one month, we will be hosting our next face-to-face event; this time in the city where we held our first ever in-person event - Birmingham. Our event is taking place on Saturday 25th April in Birmingham City Centre starting at 10am until 1pm (with a pre-event dinner the evening before and an optional lunch afterwards). Some of the topics so far include pastoral leadership, being an evidence informed leader and how to lead effective development of culture (plus more to be revealed).

Will you be joining us in Birmingham?

In one month, we will be hosting our next face-to-face event; this time in the city where we held our first ever in-person event - Birmingham. Our event is taking place on Saturday 25th April in Birmingham City Centre starting at 10am until 1pm (with a…

💜 Happy International Women’s Day 💜

Today is a day to celebrate all the fantastic women in the world, in education and particularly, in our network.

Join us at 10am if you can: www.youtube.com/live/jEGDesk...

#GiveToGain #IWD #WomenEd #HeForShe

Stepping Up to Headship A week ago today, we held our second webinar of the academic year. Our webinars this year are focused on our vision and priorities, as well as our social entrepreneurship aims. This webinar, entitled ‘Stepping Up to Headship’, was born out of the growing need to respond to the headteacher recruitment and retention crisis, alongside feedback from our community requesting more content focused on securing promotion.

Our latest blog post surrounds last week's webinar: Stepping Up to Headship.

Want to see what our Manchester Lead Meet will look like… check out the highlights of our London Lead Meet in November.

youtu.be/PXG1bZAfDjc?...

Get your Manchester tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/step-up-ma...

We’re back…

Check out our updated website…

www.stepupnetwork.uk

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Planning our Future As part of our intentional, strategic pause, our newly formed network committee met in-person with our founder to plan our future. Just over a week ago, our team of committed volunteers came together in the UK’s second city, Birmingham for a day of reflection, review and revision of our plans. Some of us started the day with a breakfast and social catch up before meeting the other members of our team at our strategy day location just a stone’s throw away from Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.

Planning our Future

We’d love for you join us in Manchester in February. Hosted at the Manchester Deaf Centre. You can get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/step-up-ma...

Join us and hear from @elliothahn.bsky.social @weleadwell.bsky.social @garypykitt.bsky.social @tattooedheadteachr.bsky.social + many others

If the @stepupnetwork.bsky.social pad and pencil are out then it's a staff wellbeing survey analysis day for me. Today, it's for King Edward VI Balaam Wood Academy. It's always lovely to read about the impact Elizabeth Wills is having with her staff wellbeing strategy!

Today we had a fantastic day with our new network committee who with our founder, Ben mapped out what our future looks like - watch this space…

We can see you hiding Rachael

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See what we get up to at our Strategy Day | Behind The Network - Episode 4 YouTube video by Step Up TV | Step Up Network

Today is our network committee strategy day - a team day where our volunteers will come together to work on our future.

Follow the hashtag #SteppingUpSaturday to see what we get up to.

You can see what we got up to at a previous day here: youtu.be/ncwtFQmrkTU?...

A week today our network committee will be meeting in person to plan our future.

To help them please do fill out the survey: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

This will help us to shape our future. We would be really grateful if you could complete this.

Wishing our whole community and educators across the globe all the very best for the start of the Spring term.

Join us this spring… 🌸 You may have seen our social media posts showcasing the many fantastic ways you can engage with us after our ‘strategic pause’ ends on the 1st of February. We recognise that less is more and we want to focus on providing more succulent information at regular, planned intervals rather than spamming across social media. We will update you in some ways we will do this after our strategy day on 17th January.

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Wishing our whole community and educators across the globe a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2026.

#HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear2026

Join the Leadership Capital Collective Written by Mark Pritchard MAT Director of Education, experienced Headteacher and Leadership Coach Hi everyone. Mark here. I hope you’re all doing very well. I’m reaching out because I have been dedicated to supporting the StepUp network from the outset. I was a speaker at the StepUp inaugural conference and have since supported a number of the fantastic events that have followed.

Join the Leadership Capital Collective

Written by Mark Pritchard MAT Director of Education, experienced Headteacher and Leadership Coach Hi everyone. Mark here. I hope you’re all doing very well. I’m reaching out because I have been dedicated to supporting the StepUp network from the outset. I was…

A Year in Review 2025

A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to our work this year. It really means a lot, thank you!

From all of us at Step Up we wish our whole community and the educators across the globe an enjoyable and relaxing Christmas break.

Thank you to everyone who has been part of the ‘Step Up Story’ this year.

📣 WE NEED YOU 📣

Our newly formed network committee wants to hear from you - what do you want from our network moving forward?

Our team is meeting in mid-January and we wish to have your thoughts so we can plan the future of Step Up.

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We are pleased to introduce to you our new network committee who will be steering our network forward.

Their first activity will be conducting some market research with our community.

A great group of people!

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Stepping Up in London – Part 3 Written by Ben Hobbis Founder, Step Up Network CIC Yesterday saw a community of educators come together for the third time in the capital to explore all things leadership development and growing your career in the education sector. An event in the capital is now becoming an annual staple within the Step Up calendar with people travelling from across inner and outer London, the East of England, South East and South West England as well as the Midlands.

Stepping Up in London - Part 3

What a great day it was yesterday at the @stepupnetwork.bsky.social London Lead Meet delivering two workshops on the case for leading #antiracism work in schools over simply a broad notion of #EDI or #inclusion. Great to meet some of my online s/heroes @msybibi.bsky.social Ziggy Moore, Mubina Husain

What a great day we’ve had in London today, thank you to all those involved who made today special!

#SteppingUpSaturday

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And others

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Of course Jess, what a great motto. Look forward to seeing you at the next one!

Good morning all, today is the day #SteppingUpSaturday

Make sure to post about your journeys using the hashtag.

London (and in particular Opogo Education) is ready for you.

If you’re looking for us we’re right next to the Hoxton hotel.

Our journeys are starting ready for our event tomorrow.

We’re looking forward to seeing you tomorrow at Opogo Education

#SteppingUpSaturday

This is your very last chance to get tickets for Saturday - tickets close at 5pm tonight!!! 🎟️

#SteppingUpSaturday

Last chance to get your tickets in London. We will be together in just over a week, we hope you can make it!!!

#SteppingUpSaturday