Facilitate personalised instructional coaching at scale
Streamline coaching across your school or MAT in one powerful platform
Pathways
Follow expert-built adaptive instructional coaching frameworks
Video Tools
Review the evidence of a lesson instead of taking feedback at face value
AI Insights
Receive instant actionable feedback from an AI assistant on your teaching practice
Technique Guides
Access practical guides and video models on the latest teaching techniques
Center coaching in the reality of your teachers' classrooms
Video-powered Observations
Take the hassle out of lesson observations and review the recording of a lesson when and where it suits you. Not only is it more convenient than a drop-in but it also allows the teacher to effectively reflect on their teaching themselves and builds a fantastic basis for the feedback meeting to not rely on limited subjective memory alone.
AI-assisted Goal Setting
Within seconds, our AI Insights will analyse an entire lesson using the latest theories and research on key instructional strategies and highlight moments of interest for further investigation. Using these key moments as a starting point, you no longer need to review entire lessons or rely only on partial observations. Instead, you can immediately focus on the identified development areas and easily revisit their context on video to build situational awareness.
Contextualised Feedback
Using time-stamped comments, teachers can add their thinking to highlighted lesson moments to base the coaching conversation not only around what happened in the classroom but also why it was handled this way. Instead of taking feedback at face value, both teacher and coach now have a deeper understanding and start their conversation on the same level, with the evidence of the video at hand to support the process as and when needed.
Bite-sized Theory & Models
The entire coaching process is facilitated using a streamlined Pathway on the IRIS Connect platform, giving coach and coachee a secure space to collaborate and record progress. Each pathway is adaptive and allows for easy embedding of relevant teaching theory and skill models to support the teacher’s development. You can choose from expert-curated mini guides and video models, add your own resources or seamlessly integrate any of the 150+ WalkThrus*.
*WalkThrus membership required
Low Stakes Rehearsal
In preparation for their next lesson, teachers may rehearse the discussed technique directly in the feedback meeting with their coach present, or simply record themselves practicing it on their own, reflect on and refine it before implementing the technique in the classroom. Teachers can also share that recording at the click of a button with their coach to receive further feedback and build their confidence.
Seamless Documentation & Progress Tracking
Working through each step of a coaching cycle in our adaptive Pathways, all of the feedback, action steps, and progress are automatically recorded in one central place for the teacher and coach to access at any time. Furthermore, leaders have access to an admin dashboard that gives them an overview of currently active pathways in their organisation so that they can offer extra support where and when it’s needed.
“At first, we used IRIS Connect just for video observations—to ease timetabling and cover challenges in coaching. But with Pathways and AI, it’s now been embedded into our coaching model and school ethos. It helps us truly personalise support for every teacher and easily adapt our coaching cycles to best support their individual development.”
– Tejinder Deeks, Deputy Headteacher, The Langley Heritage Primary
Your Instructional Coaching Options with IRIS Connect
| Coaching Step | Traditional (without IRIS Connect) |
Enhance (Pathways + Video) |
Supercharge (Pathways + Video + AI) |
| Identify area of improvement | Drop in Live |
Video Recording Whenever |
Video + AI Insights Whenever |
| Document observations | Individual paper / google doc etc | Time-linked video annotations (text, audio or video comments) |
Time-linked video annotations and AI generated report |
| Plan feedback meeting | Individual paper / forms / sheets | In Pathways | In Pathways |
| Discuss feedback | In-person | In-person or online (via time-stamped comments) |
In-person or online (via time-stamped comments) |
| Type up notes | Manual, somewhere | Manual, in Pathway | Automatic |
| Provide resources 'what good looks like' | Verbal, hand-written notes, email, links etc. | Embedded in Pathways (+integrate own resources) |
Embedded in Pathway (same as 'Enhance') |
| Rehearsal | In-person | In-person or via video | In-person or via video |
| Rehearsal feedback | In-person | In-person or online (via time-stamped comments) |
In-person / Online / AI Feedback |
| Price | - | Register interest >
from £992*/yr Get a quote > |
from £1,407*/yr Get a quote > |
*dependent on school size and chosen service level. Please see our pricing page for more details or get in touch for a tailored quote. Exemplary pricing shown applicable for UK only, please get in touch for international quotes.
