Working as an SLE or LLE is challenging, enriching and extremely rewarding. It provides opportunities to reflect on your own practice, test your problem-solving skills, devise and implement new strategies and systems, and develop further professional confidence. Most SLEs find great satisfaction in coaching and developing others and knowing that pupils are benefitting. In addition, while the actual improvement work is taking place in another school, many system leaders find the experience beneficial to their own classroom practice and school as they bring this experience back with them.