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Essential Education Group

A belief in potential.
A commitment
to respond.

An education-led organisation connecting specialist teaching, school improvement, consultancy and professional learning around unique learners.

Emma Pinnock · Founder and author
Emma Pinnock · Founder and author

Our founder

Emma Pinnock.
A human understanding
of education.

Educator, author and founder of Essential Education Group, Emma brings together teaching, leadership, SEND and a belief that difference should not limit educational ambition.

Her book, Igniting Potential: The Inclusive Teacher’s Guide to SEND Success, informs the thinking behind Responsivism and The Essential Education Group Way.

EEG’s organisational vision is to make that thinking teachable and applicable beyond a single practitioner, building capability in learners, people and settings.

The direction towards 2031

A shared method.
Increasing capacity.
Greater possibility.

The ambition is a coherent organisation: Home Edition, School Edition, Embedded Practice and a common evidence discipline. It is a development direction, not a claim that every future role or service is already in place.

A clear relationship between brands

The founder is part of the story.
The provider stands on its own.

EEG is the route for organisational services and commissioned delivery. Emma’s personal platform is the route for her speaking, authorship and individual thought leadership.

A family supporting a child’s learning at homeHome Edition

The individual learner

Build education
around the learner.

Specialist teaching, a deeper understanding of the starting point and a purposeful pathway towards learning and greater independence.

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Teachers taking part in professional learningSchool Edition

Learner + practitioner + system

Build education’s
capacity to respond.

Connect leadership, curriculum, professional knowledge and culture so that responsive teaching becomes part of everyday practice.

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A conversation, not a prescribed programme

Let’s find the right starting point.

Tell us what you are looking to change. We’ll begin with a conversation about the need, the context and the right next step.

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