Phil Beadle is a sometimes well thought of British educator who has authored ten books on teaching and learning including the 10/10 How to Teach. He is the editor of the How to Teach series, and has written for the Times, the Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and the Telegraph (though he is ashamed of this last one). His series of columns for Education Guardian ran for nine years before being cancelled due to bad behaviour. He is a former UK teacher of the year with 20 years experience of achi...
Oct 19, 2020•54 min•Ep. 37
Jonny Uttley is the CEO of The Education Alliance Multi-Academy Trust in East Yorkshire and Hull and was previously head teacher at South Hunsley School. As a National Leader of Education, he has worked with schools in many different contexts and is committed to a school improvement approach that puts ethical leadership at the heart of our system so schools create cultures in which staff genuinely thrive. Jonny writes a blog called “Trust Leadership” and speaks on leadership and school culture. ...
Oct 05, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 36
Hanna Beech is a deputy headteacher at a recently opened primary school in Kent, where she leads on embedding effective teaching and learning and building the school curriculum. Before becoming a senior leader, she was a key stage 2 phase leader at a large primary school. A keen writer and passionate educator, Hanna has contributed articles to Teacher Toolkit, Kent Teach and Tes. She is the author of the wonderful new book 60 Second CPD: 239 ideas for busy teachers with Ross Morrison McGill. Hos...
Sep 28, 2020•40 min•Ep. 35
Stuart Farmer is a teacher and teacher educator. He worked as a physics teacher and a Principal Teacher of physics for 35 years. During this time he has been very active in supporting teachers’ professional learning. Stuart has an MBA in Educational Management and an MSc in Teacher Education and is currently studying for a PhD in Teacher Education with a focus on Career-long Professional Learning. Stuart now works as the Education Manager for the Institute of Physics in Scotland Hosted on Acast....
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 34
David Weston is a former maths and science teacher with over 10 years experience. He is the founder and chief executive of the Teacher Development Trust. In March, 2015 he was appointed by the Department for Education as Chair of the Teacher’s professional Development Expert Group. He was a founding Director of the Chartered College of Teaching. David has written and spoken extensively in the media about teaching and teacher development and has had a number of radio and TV appearances discussing...
Sep 14, 2020•59 min•Ep. 33
Ross Morrison McGill founded @TeacherToolkit from a simple Twitter account through which he rapidly became the 'most followed teacher on social media in the UK '. In 2015, he was nominated as one of the '500 Most Influential People in Britain' by The Sunday Times as a result of being most influential in the field of education. He remains the only classroom teacher to feature to this day ... Sharing resources and ideas online as @TeacherToolkit, he has built his website (c2008) which has been des...
Sep 07, 2020•43 min•Ep. 32
Iain White was a headteacher for over 25 years in Glasgow. First at Govan High, where he had 100% positive destinations for his leavers despite some dire socioeconomic backgrounds and 60% of his school roll entitled to free school meals. Secondly at Newlands Junior College where Iain provided alternative provision for young people who were at risk in S3 and S4 of leaving education with nothing to show for it. Iain is a fine example of the empowerment agenda in action and now works as a consultan...
Aug 31, 2020•2 hr 24 min•Ep. 31
Tom Sherrington is a former teacher and school leader with over 30 years experience. Tom has worked in a wide range of schools in the UK and as far afield as Jakarta, Indonesia. Tom works as an educational consultant supporting schools with curriculum, assessment and improving the quality of teaching. Tom speaks regularly at conferences and education festivals. Tom is a prolific blogger sharing his ideas through teacherhead.com and is a prominent twitter educationalist. He has written some brill...
Aug 24, 2020•54 min•Ep. 30
Jon Tait is the Director of School Improvement and Deputy CEO at Arete Learning Trust in North Yorkshire. Jon started teaching in 2001 as a qualified PE teacher and more recently has taught Computer Science. Jon has been a senior leader for 13 of his 19 years in teaching. At school Jon was a free school meals student and was what we now class as disadvantaged and went to university on a full grant. Outside of education Jon carried the Olympic Torch in 2012, has coached American Football for Grea...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 29
Neil Gilbride is a Lecturer in Education at the University of Gloucestershire, where he works on Educational Leadership and Teacher Development. As an Adult Developmental Psychologist, his cutting edge research looks at the role adult development plays in how leaders respond to their organisations and those within them. He regularly works across Education and beyond., supporting organisations in Leadership, Management and Education: He is an academic advisor to Ambition School Leadership, the Ch...
Aug 10, 2020•59 min•Ep. 28
Hannah Wilson is a dynamic educational leader who is a passionate diversity, inclusion & equality advocate: an ethical leader who is vision and values led. She has spent 18 years as a teacher including as the executive headteacher of Aureus school and primary school. The school received national recognition for their work including Values-Based Education Schools Award. She is now a teacher trainer at the University of Buckingham. Amongst all of this she created an annual event called Diverse...
Jul 27, 2020•51 min•Ep. 27
Phil Naylor, is a depute headteacher and has worked in education for over 20 years. Phil is an expert in research and evidence based practice with CPD. Phil has written for TES, Schools Week and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He presents regularly at conferences around the topics of behaviour and CPD. Phil created the outstanding Naylor’s Natters over 18 months ago by starting conversations with teachers on all areas of education. Naylor’s Natter is sponsored by John Catt Education and is one o...
Jul 20, 2020•51 min•Ep. 26
David Didau is a freelance writer, blogger, speaker, trainer and author. he started his award winning blog, The Learning Spy, in 2011 to express the constraints and irritations of ordinary teachers, detail the successes and failures within his own classroom, and synthesise his years of teaching experience through the lens of educational research and cognitive psychology. Since then he has spoken at various national conferences, has directly influenced Ofsted and has worked with the Department fo...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 25
My guest today is Mark Burns. Over the last ten years, Mark has developed a proven track record in improving teaching and leadership in education. He’s co-authored two best-selling books in this field in “Engaging Learners” & “Teaching Backwards”. More recently, he has worked with FTSE100 retailers and third sector organisations, to develop the quality and impact of their learning and development programmes. Through his work, he has developed a deep understanding of learning design and how t...
Jul 06, 2020•45 min•Ep. 24
Dr Emma Kell has 20 years experience as a teacher and currently works at a Pupil Referral Unit and trains teachers with the Institute of Education. She is also a former Head of MFL and English. She has written several articles and blog posts on school leadership and the pressures of teaching, and has recently completed a doctorate on teacher well-being and work-life balance at Middlesex University. Emma is also a co-host on the brilliant ‘Clem and Em; podcast and the author ‘How to survive in te...
Jun 29, 2020•53 min•Ep. 23
Oliver Caviglioli (Oli Cav) is a former headteacher of a special school. Oli is also an author, designer and illustrator who is widely known for his work on dual coding which led to him writing the brilliant and beautiful Dual Coding with Teachers. Oli has collaborated with many educators, often providing excellent illustrations for their books most notably Tom Sherrington’s Rosenshine Principles in Action and the recent How Learning Happens by Paul Kirschner and Carl Hendrick. Oli is also a co-...
Jun 22, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 22
Richard Gerver has been described as one of the most inspirational leaders of his generation. He is an award-winning speaker, bestselling author and world-renowned thinker. Richard began his career in education, most notably as headmaster of the failing Grange Primary School. In just two years, he famously transformed the school into one of the most acclaimed learning environments in the world. He was celebrated by UNESCO and the UK Government for its incredible turnaround. Richards' books inclu...
Jun 15, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 21
Bruce Robertson is a senior leader of teaching and learning in the Scottish Borders. Bruce has taught Chemistry in schools since 2003. He has 7 years experience as a deputy headteacher in two schools. His leadership of teaching and learning improvement in Eyemouth High School led to the school being awarded the General Teaching Council for Scotland ’Excellence in Professional Learning Award’ in June 2019. Bruce is in high demand as a consultant and conference presenter and is the author of the b...
Jun 08, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 20
Emma Turner is a teacher, leader, parent and writer. She taught in primary school for 13 years first as a classroom teacher, then assistant head, then deputy head and then going on to form one of the UKs first all female co-headships. After 20 years in primary Emma joined the Discovery Schools Academy Trust where she is now their research and CPD lead. Emma is also a columnist for the TES, an ambassador for The Gender Equality Collective and a member of the WomenEd community.Emma is an advocate ...
Jun 01, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 19
Tom Rogers is an experienced teacher and middle leader, having worked at schools in the UK for 9 years and internationally for 4 as a history teacher, head of history and latterly assistant headteacher. Tom’s passion is in making schools better places for teachers to work in. This passion has inspired him to write more than 100 blogs for the TES and share with the profession through his own twitter account; @rogershistory. Tom has also produced videos for his youtube channel, has his own podcast...
May 25, 2020•53 min•Ep. 18
Dr Kulvarn Atwal is currently the Executive Headteacher of two large primary schools in London having spent his entire career teaching in East London schools. Dr Atwal specialises in teacher professional learning and his doctoral thesis highlighted the factors which impact upon teacher professional learning activities. He has applied his learning to enhance the learning experience for young people in his schools and he has written about them in his book ‘The Thinking School: Developing a dynamic...
May 18, 2020•40 min•Ep. 17
Jo Facer has worked in education since 2010. She is an English Teacher and has worked as a classroom teacher, head of department, assistant head and deputy head in five schools. She is currently the principal designate of Ark Soane Academy, a new school opening in Ealing in September 2020. Jo writes an excellent blog at readingallthebooks.com and has published a brilliant book ‘Simplicity Rules: How simplifying what we do in the classroom can benefit children”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...
May 11, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 16
Hywel Roberts has been a teacher for over twenty five years teaching secondary Drama and English in schools. Hywel is an expert in showing us how to bring learning to life which is evident in his brilliant book ‘Oops! Helping Children Learn Accidentally’ which we will explore in this podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 04, 2020•56 min•Ep. 15
Jennifer Ludgate is the Head of English and Head of Research at The Mountbatten School, Organiser of the Teaching and Learning Takeover conference, which has provided free CPD for thousands of teachers and author of the Bloomsbury CPD book Research-Informed Practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 27, 2020•53 min•Ep. 14
Graham Goulden is a former Chief Inspector and Policeman with over 30 years experience. A committed violence prevention trainer and an advocate of the bystander approach. Graham is determined to embed violence prevention programmes and recently has advocated for us to have more honest conversations with how we support our boys in society which he spoke passionately about at TEDxClackmannanshire. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 20, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 13
For this podcast I am joined by Sam Strickland aka the Strickomaster. Sam is a former History teacher who now works as the principal of the Duston School in Northampton. Sam has overseen his Schools GCSE results rise from the bottom 20% to the top 20% Nationally. Sam recently published the outstanding book Education Exposed - Leading a School in a Time of Uncertainty. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 13, 2020•41 min•Ep. 12
In this episode of Becoming Educated I am joined by Kat Howard. Kat is a former senior leader at a leading high street bank who decided to switch career to teaching. Kat is now a senior leader in a school in Northamptonshire and the founder of LitDrive, an international not for profit organisation that supports English teachers. Amongst all this she is also a teacher of english and the author of the excellent ‘Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A Pragmatic Approach to Teacher Workload’ We discuss the...
Apr 06, 2020•47 min•Ep. 11
Mark Enser has been a geography teacher for over a decade and is a head of department of Heathfield Community College. Mark writes regularly for the TES and contributes to the Guardian Teacher Network. Mark is also the author of Make Every Geography Lesson Count and Teach Like Nobody's Watching. Mark & I discuss his book Teach Like Nobody's Watching. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 30, 2020•46 min•Ep. 10
Drew Povey is one of the UK’s most influential leadership authorities. He is a sought-after speaker on leadership, an innovative Leadership coach and author of two books ‘Educating Drew’ & ‘The Leadership Factor’. You may know him as the engaging Headteacher of Harrop Fold from Channel 4’s ‘Educating Greater Manchester’ Drew & I discuss the power of teams, why it is important to be visible as a leader and what we, in education, can learn from other sectors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
Mar 23, 2020•43 min•Ep. 9
Gavin Oattes is a former primary school teacher, stand up comedian and is now one of the worlds most sought after keynote speakers. He is also the Managing Director of the Tree of Knowledge and and the co-author of Shine and Zest. His first solo new Life Will See You Now is out now and I would highly recommend that you grab a copy. Gavin & I discuss a wide range of topics including Mary Poppins, the New Zealand All Blacks and why we are what we think. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...
Mar 16, 2020•47 min•Ep. 8
