Andy Newell (@iris_founder) 's Twitter Profile
Andy Newell

@iris_founder

Founder and MD of @IRIS_Connect. Owner of Dexter. Vision for a more effective, networked approach to professional learning.

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We’re LIVE at The CPD Exchange 2025 in London! 🎥 Now: Alex Hall & Matt Maynes from Hales Valley Trust (Hales Valley Trust), speaking on "Creating a Shared Language and Consistent Teaching Quality Across the Trust." Stay tuned! 👏 #ProfessionalDevelopment #CPD

We’re LIVE at The CPD Exchange 2025 in London! 🎥 

Now: Alex Hall &amp; Matt Maynes from Hales Valley Trust (<a href="/TrustHales/">Hales Valley Trust</a>), speaking on "Creating a Shared Language and Consistent Teaching Quality Across the Trust."

Stay tuned! 👏

#ProfessionalDevelopment #CPD
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Immense feedback filtering through for our AI assisted pathways. TLDR? They save loads of time, break mental silos, offer new perspectives, inspire powerful conversations and are uncannily accurate. Also loads of useful feedback for improvement.

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A great webinar with Chartered College of Teaching Dr Haili Hughes FRSA We explored the role of AI supporting rich coaching conversations and nurturing adaptive expertise. If you want to explore IRIS Connect, PD's latest thinking, models and tech this is a good place to start: my.chartered.college/event/coaching…

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“AI states the facts, highlights positives, and suggests next steps – no judgement, no threat.”— Emma Freemen's School at #CPDExchange2025 She’s excited about customisable AI Pathways with IRIS Connect – and so are we! 🚀Learn more: hubs.li/Q03nXS4g0 #EdTech #AIinEducation

“AI states the facts, highlights positives, and suggests next steps – no judgement, no threat.”— Emma <a href="/HelloFreemens/">Freemen's School</a> at #CPDExchange2025

She’s excited about customisable AI Pathways with IRIS Connect – and so are we!

🚀Learn more: hubs.li/Q03nXS4g0
#EdTech #AIinEducation
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Meet Leslie — our production powerhouse! He’s busy prepping IRIS Connect kits for schools from the south coast to Scotland, and across the globe 🌍. From the Netherlands, to Dubai, to the US — we’re in over 50 countries worldwide! Wherever you are, we’ve got your PD journey

Meet Leslie — our production powerhouse!
He’s busy prepping IRIS Connect kits for schools from the south coast to Scotland, and across the globe 🌍. From the Netherlands, to Dubai, to the US — we’re in over 50 countries worldwide!
Wherever you are, we’ve got your PD journey
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What actually helps teachers grow? Not more inset days. Not one-size-fits-all training. This piece looks at how IRIS Connect, PD is quietly shifting teacher development through reflection, not performance pressure. 🔗 edtechimpact.com/news/how-iris-… #CPD #TeacherDevelopment

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"What I like about IRIS Connect is that we now start with coaching, not catch-up. In the past, the first 30 minutes of a coaching session were spent discussing the lesson and the actual coaching barely got off the ground. Now, all the preparation happens beforehand - you

"What I like about IRIS Connect is that we now start with coaching, not catch-up. In the past, the first 30 minutes of a coaching session were spent discussing the lesson and the actual coaching barely got off the ground. 

Now, all the preparation happens beforehand - you
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🤔“Why did you do it that way?” In our interview with Brett Court (Amersham School) at the Brighton Instructional Coaching Conference, he shared a key takeaway: 🧠 Coaching helps unpack the mental models behind teacher decision-making—helping us better understand what we do,

🤔“Why did you do it that way?”
In our interview with Brett Court (Amersham School) at the Brighton Instructional Coaching Conference, he shared a key takeaway:
🧠 Coaching helps unpack the mental models behind teacher decision-making—helping us better understand what we do,
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Anyone who's visited IRIS Connect towers over the last 12 years will have met my partner in crime Dexter. We lost him suddenly and I've got to tell you it's one of the hardest things we've been through as a family. Bizarre really, but they are just always there until they aren't.

Anyone who's visited IRIS Connect towers over the last 12 years will have met my partner in crime Dexter. We lost him suddenly and I've got to tell you it's one of the hardest things we've been through as a family. Bizarre really, but they are just always there until they aren't.