ABOUT.
Meet the WalkThrus team and our key partners.
MEET THE TEAM
TOM
Tom Sherrington writes the popular blog teacherhead.com and his books include the best-seller Rosenshine’s Principles in Action as well as the WalkThrus series. With 30 years' experience as a science teacher and secondary school leader, Tom works with schools and colleges providing training and consultancy support on improving the quality of teaching through the WalkThrus materials.
OLIVER
Oliver Cavigioli was a special school head teacher for a decade. He is the author of Dual Coding With Teachers and co-author of Organise Ideas, and The Extended Mind In Action. He has designed and illustrated books by many of our leading educational thinkers. Over the past two years he has focused on developing the Teaching WalkThrus book series.
MATT
Matt Stone is a former teacher and school leader, who is an experienced coach and teacher trainer. As Director of Education at Teaching WalkThrus, Matt leads our team of trainers and consultants, alongside providing training, consultancy and support to our member schools himself. Matt also provides support for new member schools and oversees the development of our digital resources.
OUR PARTNERS.
HARINGEY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
HEP is a key WalkThrus partner, providing all the support for training, consultancy and conferencing. Fran Hargrove, the Deputy CEO, alongside Nat Hussein, the HEP WalkThrus Lead, provide important support to schools and colleges in developing their CPD programmes with WalkThrus.
IRIS Connect
IRIS Connect is the market leading video-based professional learning platform used by thousands of teachers worldwide to improve outcomes. We’re delighted that our WalkThrus are now fully integrated into the IRIS platform, bringing huge benefits to member schools and colleges.
JOHN CATT LTD
Our main partnership is with John Catt Ltd, the publishers now part of Hodder Education. As well as publishing our books, John Catt Ltd personnel - notably Alex Sharratt and Annabel Britcliffe - handle all our enquiries, sign-ups and support with user access as well as supporting our marketing and support in the US and in over regions.
STEPLAB
Steplab is an innovative PD tool that combines the power of precise techniques, clear modelling, repeated rehearsal and teacher coaching. All of our WalkThru techniques are available to qualifying members through the StepLab platform, enabling schools to supercharge their coaching processes.
MAGIC BREAKFAST
Magic Breakfast makes a difference to over 200,000 children and young people every day by offering breakfasts and expert advice to tackle morning hunger in schools. They exist to make sure no child or young person is too hungry to learn. Every copy of our upcoming book Learning WalkThrus sold buys breakfast for a hungry child.
THE COMPANY.
Teaching WalkThrus International Ltd is the company set up by Tom and Oliver as co-Directors to run our WalkThrus operation. Having written and published the WalkThrus books originally as independent authors and consultants, Tom and Oliver formed the TWI company in 2021 to support our long-term commitment to sustaining WalkThrus as a resource for schools and colleges worldwide.
Our partnerships with John Catt Ltd/Hodder and Haringey Education Partnership allow us to provide a range of services whilst generating new content, bringing in the expertise of numerous teachers and leaders to support us along the way. We now have a team in place that allows us to continue the work long into the future.
Company Registration Number: 13166942
ACHIEVEMENTS.
We have been absolutely delighted with our progress as a company since we launched. Each of the three volumes of WalkThrus has been very popular with Volume 1 regularly hitting the best-sellers lists for Education books. All together we’ve released over 350,000 WalkThrus books into the world! In March 2024, our newest book Learning WalkThrus was published, sharing 70+ ideas for parents and students.
Our memberships have also taken off beyond our expectations. As of June 2024, we have over 4000 schools and colleges using our materials. About 250 schools have joined us internationally, too, from 50 different countries around the world.
Most importantly, as we tour the country on our consultancy visits, we are seeing the impact WalkThrus has had, with teachers in every type of setting improving their practice and using a shared language for their professional learning that they didn’t previously have. Our Case Stories capture more of the details .
