A practitioner-led programme for Level 7 dyslexia assessors who want to fine tune their professional practice, not just stay informed.
Mastery is built for assessors who want structured practice, tangible outputs and direct support as they develop their craft. Three things make Mastery a different experience.
Two best-practice frameworks: the Praxis Assessment Compass (a process for working through an assessment) and the SAFE Report Anchor (how you write the report) keep you secure in your professional practice.
Embedded repeatable principles and implementation frameworksFor each assessment topic, choose to focus on assessment practice, report writing, or both, and complete every Mission with a practical outcome you can use in your work.
Practical takeaways to strengthen your assessment skills.Sally-Ann presents each Mission, setting the task/s to complete. Attend one or both of the live coaching calls, plus an individual Voxer chat direct with Sally-Ann. Plus a Mastery-only community.
Ongoing reflection, refinement and development
The question I’ve been asked more than any other is some version of this: “I’m trying my best to meet expectations and keep up to date, but I really don’t know if I am getting things right.” Mastery is what I’ve built to bring you the reassurance you need.
You undertake the assessment using the Praxis Assessment Compass to inform your assessment sessions and decisions. You write the report using the SAFE Report Anchor. These are exclusive best-practice frameworks. Every Mission, every Foundation module, every live session is built on top of them.
Evidence → Analysis → Impact → Action. The framework for how you work through an assessment. Four cardinals; you move between them as the assessment evolves.
Strengthens assessor judgement.
SASC-aligned. APC-ready. Fit for the individual. Efficient and effective. The framework for how you write the report once the assessment is done.
Finds assessor voice.
Both frameworks, every Mission, both Foundations — from £549.
Before the first Mission, two self-study modules give you the underlying thinking the Mission work rests on. They are being prepared now and will be released before the first Mission work begins, so you can return to them as often as you need throughout your enrolment.
Standard scores, confidence intervals, significance, prevalence, safe interpretation. The numerical floor every diagnostic decision rests on.
Self-study · released before Mission work beginsObservation, asking, probing, reflection. How to understand the story behind the scores and bring it into the report.
Self-study · released before Mission work beginsStatistics gives the structure. Qualitative analysis gives the story.
Underneath the Missions sits a growing reference layer of self-study material — the PAC and SAFE thinking, in depth. It’s being built for the founding cohort and released progressively across the year, starting before the first Mission. As a founding member you get every part as it lands — at no extra cost.
As material is released, go in sequence or jump straight to whatever you need. Nothing is locked behind a Mission schedule.
The material maps to the thinking the Missions are built on, so the library and the Missions reinforce each other as it grows.
Use it as a working reference throughout your enrolment — pull up the relevant material whenever a real case raises a question.
Released across your enrolment. Yours to refer back to for the whole 12 months.
A Mission is a four-week cycle: one task, using your own case study, with bounded peer support, ending with something tangible. The unit Mastery is built around, and the unit the programme keeps adding to.
Watch the recorded orientation, complete the self-study, plan for the task and identify where you would like to focus
Complete the Mission task over the week. This could be a report sample, evaluation, or resource to integrate into your future practice. Swap notes with peers in the Mastery group.
Assessing with Confidence (judgement). Writing with Confidence (voice). Attend either, or both. Discuss, get feedback, share your thoughts.
One-to-one chat in the Voxer window with Sally-Ann, for individual guidance on the current Mission.
One Mission. One task. Two live sessions. One Voxer window. One tangible outcome.
Mastery is designed as an ongoing pathway, even though each enrolment is for 12 months.
A test library and core battery audit, includes Appendix Two and Appendix Four review
September 2026A converging evidence map and a diagnostic decision draft you can defend.
October 2026A 3-3-3 SAFE audit of one of your own reports, plus one rewritten section.
November 2026A Personal Workflow Plan, a starter phrase bank and a sign-off checklist.
December 2026A revised background questionnaire and/or a revised background information report section.
January 2027A completed spelling and writing analysis plus a report paragraph.
February 2027An annotated miscue transcript, analysis and/or a report paragraph.
March 2027A completed Impact Map. The link between scores and the person.
May 2027An Impact-to-Action map and a recommendations section that fits the individual.
June 2027All nine Missions standalone would cost £891. The founding-cohort enrolment is £549 pay in full — save £342.
A 12-month founding-cohort enrolment in Praxis Mastery. Pay it all up front, or spread it across three monthly instalments. The Missions, Foundations, live sessions and community are the same on either path.
Save £48 vs. the payment-plan total of £597
Pro members: 15% discount applied automatically at checkout
£597 total · three monthly instalments, then no further payments
Pro members: 15% discount applied automatically at checkout
A 12-month enrolment, not a subscription. Your founding-cohort enrolment runs for 12 months. There is no auto-renewal, but you are welcome to join us for another year.
No. Alongside the Missions, a comprehensive self-study library — exclusive to Mastery — is being built for the founding cohort and released across your enrolment, taking you through every element of the PAC and SAFE model in detail. The aim is to embed these principles into your everyday practice, so that you are not only ready to take on the Missions with more clarity, but feel secure in your assessment practice — now and in the future.
No. Mastery is post-qualification practice development. It assumes you are Level 7 qualified and ready to apply, refine and strengthen those skills.
Yes. On completion of the year-long programme you will be able to claim 5 hours SASC Authorised CPD — the maximum number of hours permitted by SASC for any course.
No. Mastery includes structured Missions, group sessions and bounded Voxer windows, but it does not include 1:1 feedback, full report reviews, individual report marking or APC submission support. For APC renewal support, see APC 1-2-3.
Yes. Single Missions are £99 each as a low-commitment way in. The full 12-month enrolment is dramatically better value: £549 pay in full (or 3 × £199 on the payment plan) compared with £891 if you bought all nine standalone. Individual Missions do not include Community access or Foundation Module access. Pro members get an additional 15% off the enrolment, applied automatically at checkout.
Your 15% Pro discount is applied automatically at checkout, on either the pay-in-full or the payment-plan option. Your existing Pro programme, including any legacy Pro pricing, is unaffected. Mastery is additional, and can run alongside Pro.
Each Mission has two live sessions in Week 3 (Assessment Practice and Writing with Confidence). Both are recorded and added to the Mission area. The Voxer support window in Week 4 is asynchronous, so you can join in your own time.
No, that is APC 1-2-3. Mastery strengthens your everyday report-writing practice using SAFE. Many assessors find Mastery makes their next APC easier, but it is not designed around the renewal process itself.
Sign up now for access to the Mastery community and the material that is ready for the founding cohort. The Foundation Modules are being prepared and will be released before the first Mission work begins. Missions begin in September 2026 and run monthly through to June 2027, with quiet months in July, August and April. December 2026 carries the lighter mini-Mission (Mission IX, Efficient and effective writing).
Structurally it is a 12-month enrolment, not a subscription. There is no auto-renewal. Year One (June 2026 to June 2027) is the founding-cohort cycle, with Missions sequenced to support the 2025 report-format transition.
At the end of the 12 months, you’re welcome to continue into the next cycle — and founding-cohort members maintain their original price. Most members will want to: the same nine Missions repeat with refreshed focus, new self-study content is added, the community deepens. Many members will need ongoing support well into 2027 and beyond as the new format beds in. Mastery is built for the long haul, not just the deadline.
The standard Year Two price will be higher than founding pricing (likely £799), but founding-cohort members will maintain their original price. Praxis Pro members still get 15% off if they remain active members. If you continue, you stay in the community, keep access to the self-study library, and run through Year Two’s Mission cycle with your fresh case studies. If you don’t continue, access ends at month 12. There are no auto-renewals. This is not a subscription.
The Praxis Assessment Compass and the SAFE Report Writing Anchor have grown out of years of front-line assessment practice, report writing, training, and supporting other assessors through the APC process.
As a former Patoss APC Reviewer, I have read a lot of reports. I have seen where assessors feel confident, where they get stuck, and where good practice can become buried under anxiety, overthinking or trying to second-guess what “they” want.
Praxis Mastery brings my book, The Confident Assessor, to life.
It takes the frameworks, principles and practical guidance from the book and turns them into a structured, supported pathway. You don’t need to just read about best practice — you will apply it, refine it, and make it part of the way you work.
This is the practical next step for assessors who want to move beyond keeping up and start feeling genuinely grounded, confident and clear in their assessment practice.
The founding cohort is now open. Founding pricing closes when the first cohort is full. There won’t be a second founding cohort.
