PiXL POST 16 NATIONAL CONFERENCE HUB
AUTUMN TERM 2026/27
Stronger beginnings need clear leadership
Nine sessions, ready to watch with your leadership team. Start with Dr Dyedra Morrissey on time management, pick the session that matches your priority, then act on it straight away.
Time management, building study habits, independent learning, sixth form pedagogy, consistent teaching standards, the national update, and ambition and the rise in NEETs. Short enough to fit in a leadership meeting. Practical enough to change what happens for your post-16 students.
Rachel Johnson - 15 mins
Build study habits that last longer than willpower
Dr Dyedra Morrissey - 24 mins
Why students misjudge how long work takes, and how to help them
Karen Collins - 6 mins
Put PiXL’s revision and note-taking resources to work with your students
Jenny Gaylor - 10 mins
Get up to date with the national changes that affect your post-16 students
Rachel Johnson
15 mins
Rachel is an author, podcaster, leadership thinker and coach. She understands what really gets in the way of effective leadership, from how we think and make decisions to the barriers that affect performance, relationships and progress. Her podcasts have built a global audience and rank among the UK’s top three for educational leaders.
Stronger leaders. Stronger schools.
Stronger schools start with stronger leadership
Rachel made the case for putting leadership at the heart of building stronger schools. She looked at why it matters so much and where to start when developing leadership, both in ourselves and in others.
- Chief Executive Officer of PiXL
- Three-time published author, Hachette Learning
- PiXL Pearls and Leadership Bookclub podcasts
Start developing leadership in yourself and your team:
Dr Dyedra Morrissey
23 mins
Dr Dyedra Morrissey is a researcher at the University of Oxford whose work focuses on time management, in particular why students and adults consistently underestimate how long tasks will take. She teaches undergraduates at Pembroke College and executives at Saïd Business School, and brings that research into practical strategies for helping people manage their time better.
From habits to independence
Make time work: why students misjudge how long tasks take, and how to help them
Dyedra looked at why time management is so hard to build, even though it topped the list of skills delegates linked to independent learners in July. She covered why students, and adults, consistently underestimate how long tasks will take, and what’s going on when time management goes wrong. She closed on the strategies that help students plan their time more accurately.
- Researcher, University of Oxford
- Teaches undergraduates at Pembroke College
- Teaches executives at Saïd Business School
Get the essentials for helping students manage their time:
Dr Alex Fairlamb
13 mins
Dr Alex Fairlamb is a Trust Teaching and Learning Coach and Director of Alex Fairlamb Consultancy, and a former senior leader for teaching and learning, professional development, and literacy and oracy in the North East. A history teacher by background, she is an Honorary Fellow of the Historical Association and a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching. She is co-author of The Scaffolding Effect and co-editor of What is History Teaching, Now?
Stronger leaders. Stronger schools.
Same principles, higher stakes: why good pedagogy mustn’t stop at 16
Keep teaching standards high after 16 and leave room for subject passion
Alex looked at what the research tells us about good pedagogy in the sixth form. She focused on holding post-16 teaching to the same high standards as the rest of the school while giving teachers room to share their passion for their subject. She also looked at what can get in the way, from rigid slide decks to inflexible curricula.
- Trust Teaching and Learning Coach
- Director, Alex Fairlamb Consultancy
- Co-author of The Scaffolding Effect
Keep post-16 teaching standards high:
