Tiny Voice Talks with Toria Bono

Join Toria as she chats to Andrew about his mental health struggles and how small simple steps helped him renew his love of teaching and enabled him to make the decision to retire while still enjoying the job. Andrew and Toria have  taught for nearly fifty years between them and both have realised that balance is essential in order to avoid burnout.  Tune in to hear them talk about the benefits of...

In this episode, Toria talks to Caitlin about how as teachers we are all different and that it is in celebrating and embracing these differences that our profession gets stronger. Allowing our true selves to be seen and heard supports good mental health. They discuss  introverts and extroverts, neurotypical and neurodiverse and so much more. They didn't come up with a title though so if you h...

In this episode, Toria chats to Sara about how important teaching assistants are to our schools. Great teacher/TA teams can truly transform teaching and learning in our schools so we talk about how to get this right. Please tune in and share widely. Thank you. Sara is an author and educationalist who currently works as an independent consultant and trainer supporting schools with SEND and safeguar...

In this episode, Toria talks to Chris about language and why stories are so important to weave into our classrooms.  Some of the things they discuss are  - The importance of story in all our lives, as well as in the classroom. How developing the presentation of stories and reading to the class can impact on the school’s reading culture. How this approach can build both literacy/oracy skills and em...

 In this episode, Toria chats to Sarah Hepworth about developing curious learners in creative ways. As an experienced English Leader of over 10 years, Sarah feels passionately about developing learners who are given the opportunity to develop their imagination, ask questions and be curious.  Sarah uses her knowledge of the EEF through her role with Derby Research School to also talk about the ShRE...

In this episode, Toria chats with Lucy about the expectations placed on us to progress up the proverbial career ladder. Lucy talks about her experience and why and how she has followed her own path and ignored the outside noise.  Lucy has taught for over twenty years and is the wellbeing lead at her school and is passionate about developing children's love of teaching. You can connect with he...

In this episode, Toria chats to John Magee about how we can support children to self-regulate. More and more in schools, we are talking to children about their emotions and helping them to learn what self-regulation is and how to do this. John is passionate about supporting children and adults to get this right. During the global pandemic, best-selling author John Magee wrote The Happy Tank collab...

In this episode, Toria talks to Oliver about what we can learn about leadership from those in senior positions. We discuss how most of us, whatever our role or job title, are acting as leaders. Seeing ourselves as learners and leaders is an important step. Realising that all of us, no matter how far on in our leadership journey, will experience a sense of imposter syndrome (and that’s normal) is a...

In this episode, Pie returns to the podcast to chat with Toria about poetic writing and how to teach this effectively. Pie is an excellent poet – but he is also an excellent teacher of poetry - reading it and writing it. Pie is a fount of imaginative teaching ideas that work to help children express themselves in poetry and/or prose and shows teachers how to create the bridge between the two. He c...

In this episode, Toria talks to Matt (a fellow coach) about the importance of knowing who we are as educationalists. All too often, our focus is on others and we can lose sight of ourself, our values and our beliefs.  They discuss the power of coaching and who knowing who we are can ripple out positively into our classrooms, schools and beyond. Matt is now a qualified Level 7 leadership, executive...

In this episode, Toria talks to Humera about enquiry/ inquiry based learning. Humera believes that for teachers to effectively teach in this way, they need to develop a mindset in which they are also enquiry driven. She feels that in order to do this, professional development should allow for a level of freedom, allowing educators to follow their fields of interest. Tune in to hear her talk about...

In this, the second of two episodes on rewards and punishments, Toria talks to Heather Lucas about moving away from the behaviouralist approach that schools have followed for years and more towards an approach that focuses on building relationships. If you would like to contact Heather or have specific questions for her, she is very happy to have people email her on bitesizedpsychology@gmail.com ....

In this, the first of two episodes on rewards and punishments, Toria talks to Heather Lucas about moving away from the behaviouralist approach that schools have followed for years and more towards an approach that focuses on building relationships. Heather explains the three R's and really unpicks the importance of emotional regulation. If you would like to contact Heather or have specific qu...

In this episode, Toria chats to Brett Griffin about leaving teaching to start his own pioneering business that some may consider a radical and leftfield move. As a former Assistant Principal and a teacher for 12 years, it was only in forming Pupil Progress; designing the processes impacting on a whole school level, when he actually found more passion in leadership than he did teaching and learning...

For the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, Toria has decided to do something slightly different! Tune in to hear her being a guest as well as a host as she chats to  Mike and Arthur from T & Teaching Podcast (who are also hosting and guesting).  They talk about all manner of things including finding your voice, leadership, their mutual love of education and why hosting an educational podca...

In this episode Toria chats to Nick about how leading a school isn't easy and that what works for one setting won't necessarily work for another. Nick is an ardent believer that leaders need to know their school well and the problems that they are trying to address. He talks to Toria about the perils of fads on social media and how this can direct leaders away from what their setting nee...

In this episode, Toria chats to Verity about what Tiny Voice Talks 2022 and all that has occurred - the podcast, the book and her mad 3am ideas! This was going to be a one-woman episode but Toria decided that she needed someone to chat to about all that has happened and was grateful when Verity volunteered.  If you have enjoyed the podcast in 2022, please review it on your podcast host and share i...

In this episode, Toria chats to Sarah about how applying cognitive techniques will increase  mental agility and emotional intelligence and F.L.I.P  thinking.  This can be used for you and with others, including the young people you work with. Sarah was a headteacher and now runs her own successful consultancy business and is an advisor and facilitator for Laughology.  When Sarah chose to leave sch...

In this Teacher 5 A Day mini podcast episode, find out how Christine uses noticing to support her mental health. Support the show If you enjoyed this episode please share it with others. If you would like to find out more about Tiny Voice Talks Coaching with Toria then email her on toria@tinyvoicetalks.com If you would like a copy of the Tiny Voices Talk book with  30% off go to www.crownhouse.co....

In this episode, Toria talks to Emma about a framework for developing psychological resilience in children and young people. She explains why using a sound resilience map will focus on the 3 dimensions of psychological wellbeing and allow targeted interventions to enable children to thrive.    Emma Davies is a psychologist and psychotherapist specialising in the psychological wellbeing of children...

Support the show If you enjoyed this episode please share it with others. If you would like to find out more about Tiny Voice Talks Coaching with Toria then email her on toria@tinyvoicetalks.com If you would like a copy of the Tiny Voices Talk book with  30% off go to www.crownhouse.co.uk or www.independentthinkingpress.com and use the code TINY30. 

In the second part of LGBTQIA+, Toria talks to Ian Timbrell about some of the issues facing our LGBTQIA+ young people today and how we can support them in school, including advice on how to support pupils coming out as LGBTQIA+ and what to do if a pupil asks to change their pronouns. You can listen to part 1 here: https://tinyvoicetalks.buzzsprout.com/1267127/11421795-lgbtqia-part-1-with-ian-timbr...

In this mini podcast episode, Bukky talks about how she uses noticing to maintain her mental wellbeing. Bukky Yusuf is a Thought Leader with over twenty years teaching experience. She has undertaken several leadership roles within mainstream and special school settings, centring around professional development programmes, quality first teaching and learning and effective implementations of Educati...

In this episode Toria talks to Jacqueline about nursery rhymes, their history and their importance for early learning today.  She also talks about the importance of phonological awareness and how this is different to phonics.  As a teacher and researcher, Jacqueline talks about how her experience and research findings led her to develop and publish a book of rhymes for active learning today. Jacqu...

In this episode, Toria talks to Sian Hardy about Literacy Hive, the open-access signposting website that she set up to help teachers navigate their way around the literacy resource landscape quickly and easily. Sian has worked for over 30 years in the children’s book world in a variety of different roles. That breadth of experience made her aware of the many different resources and services availa...