Intelligence: Understanding Minds, Unlocking Potential

As a school leader,

• You want a teaching team capable of understanding how learning truly happens.
• You want classrooms where curiosity grows, cognitive challenge is intentional, and every learner - regardless of background, profile, or ability - is seen as capable of progress.

Yet many instructional decisions still rely on assumptions about intelligence rather than on what research actually tells us about how the brain learns.

This 2-hour masterclass, Intelligence: Understanding Minds, Unlocking Potential, provides your staff the clarity and confidence they need to make evidence-informed choices that genuinely strengthen learning. It offers a rare opportunity to step back from daily practice and rethink intelligence through the lenses of neuroscience, executive functions, cognitive theory, and the evolving relationship between human and artificial intelligence.

Designed for teachers, school leaders, and anyone shaping learning environments, this session goes far beyond definitions. It helps your team confront beliefs, question ingrained habits, and adopt a more dynamic, empowering view of human potential, one that directly influences the quality of teaching in your school.

What does your school gain? 

A scientifically grounded foundation for better teaching

Your staff will learn what cognitive science actually says about intelligence, executive functions, memory, and cognitive load. This helps eliminate ineffective practices and supports stronger instructional choices across the school.

A more equitable and growth-oriented learning culture

By challenging common neuromyths and biases, the course equips your teachers to hold higher expectations for every learner. This directly strengthens inclusion, differentiation, and student confidence.

Lessons that develop reasoning, creativity, and resilience

Your teachers will leave with practical strategies to design learning that stretches thinking without causing overload, fuels curiosity, and builds the executive function skills students need to succeed.

A staff prepared for the future of learning

Your team will explore how human and artificial intelligence interact, and how these two forms of intelligence can complement one another to enhance teaching, feedback, and student engagement.

A common language for discussing learning and student potential

This masterclass creates shared understanding across departments, improving alignment and coherence throughout your school.

What your teachers will explore

• Is intelligence fixed, or can it grow?

• What role does mindset truly play in achievement?

• How do executive functions shape learning outcomes?

• How can we avoid neuromyths and unconscious biases?

• How can human and artificial intelligence support each other to improve learning?

By the end of the session, your teachers will leave with practical, research-informed strategies to optimise cognitive load, foster creativity, build resilience, and unlock student potential, while strengthening their own professional confidence.

Audience: Teachers, school leaders, learning designers, education professionals

Duration: 2 hours
Maximum participants: 30
Dates: upon request
Certification: Certificate of Mastery