The South Wirral Way of Excellence in Teaching was developed with the aim of improving the consistency and quality of implementing the school and subject curricula in order to reduce the variation in student progress and raise student attainment. Primarily based around Barack Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction, it draws on a range of lessons from educational neuroscience to provide a structure to each learning episode which can be adapted to support all students in making progress. In practice, its success has been achieved by embedding a clear structure to lessons underpinned by a set of core principles that bring together a number of the school’s pedagogical developments (including the "excellent teacher framework", alongside the school's work on literacy and the intent of the curriculum) in a coherent and manageable way. During this session, Helen Darlington will discuss how the school has developed the South Wirral Way, the strategies used to embed it across the whole school, and how they are now using it to inform improvement planning and professional development within subject areas and for individual teachers.