One Big Change. Three Ways In.
Proven Practice. Live Problem.
Access proven practice faster, grounded in what is already working in similar schools. School-led, with a university partner for evidence and CPD partners for accreditation.
Scale Your Way of Working
For coaches, consultants, heads and deputy heads who have a way of working they want to scale into schools. A repeatable route into matched school leaders.
In Front of Decision Makers
Get in front of at least 10 matched decision makers or school leaders per cohort, while schools work on a live problem matched to your offer.
Workshop Feedback
Real feedback from school leaders who have attended a One Big Change workshop.
"If one school has solved a challenge, others should not have to start from scratch."
One Big Change™ helps schools learn from schools, and the Hub School Model makes that learning local, practical and sustainable.
LocaeRise Match the Home of One Big Change™
Why workshops alone are not enough
CPD is rarely the weak link. What happens in the weeks afterwards usually is.
Schools attend CPD
Leaders and staff take time out to learn from a workshop built around a real, proven change.
Leaders feel inspired
The session lands. There's energy, intent and a genuine plan to make something different happen.
Everyone returns to a busy school
Term-time reality sets back in fast: timetables, inspections, and the next thing on the list.
Momentum often slips
Without a structure to keep returning to, even good intentions struggle to become lasting practice.
Built around real local communities
Every hub is geographically anchored, so meeting up is genuinely easy, not another commitment competing for time.
Birmingham
Hub School + 10 schools within a 5-mile radius.
5-mile radius
Kent
Hub School + 10 schools within a 5-mile radius.
5-mile radius
London
Hub School + schools within the same borough.
Same borough
Moving Forward Together
A local community of schools, sustained by peer support
This keeps travel practical, encourages in person collaboration and makes peer learning easier to sustain.
What the model improves
Six outcomes the Hub structure is built to protect, long after the workshop ends.
Retention
Schools stay engaged with the model well beyond the workshop day itself.
Adoption
Ideas are far more likely to be actually put into practice, not just admired.
Implementation
Peer support helps schools work through the practical detail of making change real.
Accountability
Regular hub meet-ups create a natural, supportive reason to keep momentum going.
Evidence of Impact
Hubs generate the case studies and outcomes that prove the change actually worked.
Sustainability
Every hub has ongoing access to practical tools and expert support across all four pillars - SEND, Wellbeing, Academic, and CPD - ensuring long-term capacity to sustain change.
Evidence & Documentation
Recognition & Accountability
Initial pilot regions
Five proposed founding hubs across the first three regions.
Academic Excellence
Grounded in proven educational practice
Modern Innovation
Contemporary approaches to school improvement
Ark Victoria Academy
Nishkam School
Ark Globe Academy
Harris Academy Greenwich
The John Wallis Academy
These are proposed founding hubs and subject to validation.
What Heads Are Saying
Real feedback from heads and deputies who have been through a One Big Change micro conference.
"We came in with a real SEND challenge and left with a clear plan, a peer network, and evidence we could actually show our governors. It was nothing like any CPD I'd attended before."
Sarah M.
Headteacher
Primary School, Greater Manchester
"The expert was matched to exactly what we were dealing with - staff burnout after three hard years. Practical, honest, and no waffle. We've already started implementing the LEARN framework."
James T.
Deputy Headteacher
Secondary School, West Yorkshire
"I was sceptical about another conference. But naming our One Big Challenge and working with a peer group on the same issue changed everything. We left with actions, not just ideas."
Priya K.
Headteacher
Primary School, Birmingham
"The university validation piece gave us exactly what we needed for our improvement plan. Our governors were impressed by the evidence, and the certification gave our champion real credibility."
Marcus W.
Deputy Headteacher
Secondary School, London
READY TO NAME YOUR ONE BIG CHANGE?
The OBC Programme is a structured, term-time programme delivered by LocaeRise in collaboration with an expert of your choosing, matched to your priority change. Each group of 3 workshop sessions gives your school community and the leadership a named priority, matched support, and a verified expert.
