Becoming Educated

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...

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...

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 Ju...

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 amba...

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 twitte...

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...

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: H...

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.

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.

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. H...

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.co...

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 t...

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...

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 le...

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, t...

Andy Cope is a qualified teacher, best selling author, happiness expert and recovering academic. Andy is the UKs first ever Dr of Happiness after studying Positive Psychology for his PhD. We discuss Destination Addiction, Pronoia, the 4 minute rule and much much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Fawcett has taught for oven ten years in English Secondary Schools. He is a speaker, trainer and organiser of multiple teaching conferences including the Teaching & Learning Takeover. His goal is to make teachers more aware of what might work in the classroom by bridging the gap between research and practice and he is also the author of the excellent ‘Relearning to Teach’. Hosted on Acast. S...

David Cameron is a man who has done and seen it all in Scottish education. A former teacher until the early 90’s, he has been the Director of Children's Services for Stirling Council, Head of Education in East Lothian, an Area Manager for a large group of Schools in Fife, among many other roles. He is now a speaker, trainer, mentor, coach and adviser who has delivered at conferences as far afield...

Jamie Thom is a full time English Teacher, host of the TES English Teaching Podcast and author of 'Slow Teaching: finding calm, clarity and impact in the classroom’. Jamie is also set to release his new book 'A Quiet Education: Challenging the extrovert ideal in our schools'. Jamie joins me to discuss 'Slow Teaching', teacher wellbeing and provides so insights into his upcoming book. Show notes ca...

Stephanie Peat is a Primary School Teacher who now works as a Lead Specialist of Professional Learning & Leadership at Education Scotland. We discuss what Teacher Leadership means to Stephanie and its importance for all teachers. We look in depth at the Teacher Leadership programme provided by Education Scotland and what participants of the programme can bring back to their classrooms and schools....

Bradley Busch is a Chartered Psychologist and a Director at InnerDrive. He co-authored 'The Science of Learning, 77 Studies Every Teacher Needs to Know'. Bradley and I discuss his recent TedX talk, the book and its content and also some of his work on the Guardian Teacher Network. Bradley shares his top 3 studies from the book and offers some practical strategies for helping our young people learn...

In this podcast I am joined by the UK's first Professor in Social Mobility, co-creator of the EEF's Toolkit for Learning & Teaching and co-author of What Works? in Secondary Education, Dr Lee Elliot-Major. We discuss his career to date, social mobility and what schools can do to tackle this and his new book which he co-authored with Professor Steve Higgins What Works? Lee also shares his experienc...