Creative Minds; Shaping the Future

What sparked your curiosity in this episode? Please send a text or voice note here... Shonette Bason is a primary school teacher and Early Years specialist with over 30 years of classroom experience. She is also an author and motivational speaker, passionate about exciting children’s and practitioner’s learning. Her boundless energy, happiness and love for play are just some of the reasons she is...

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What sparked your curiosity in this episode? Please send a text or voice note here... Hywel Roberts has taught in secondary, primary and special settings for almost 30 years. He shows others how to bring learning to life for all children and young people. In particular, he has drawn on and adapted the work of Dorothy Heathcote, with whom he studied, and her powerful Mantle of the Expert approach t...

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What sparked your curiosity in this episode? Please send a text or voice note here... Winsy is the Global Director of Education & Innovation at Rocket Productions. With over 16 years in the British independent education sector, she has held leadership roles, developed pedagogical frameworks, designed learning environments, delivered teacher training, and led action research. For more than a de...

What sparked your curiosity in this episode? Please send a text or voice note here... Who's who! Listen to this micro episode to find out! Support the show Subscribe today: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2140148/supporters/new Thanks to Chloe Clayton - @clomyster on Instagram for creating the music for this podcast.  Please remember to follow so that you stay up to date with monthly episodes from...

What sparked your curiosity in this episode? Please send a text or voice note here... Dr Mark Williams is an internationally recognised professor of cognitive neuroscience, (cognitive neuroscience is focused on studying the brain and learning, how it uses thought, senses and experiences to inform understanding and gain new knowledge) with over 25 years experience conducting behavioural and brain i...

What sparked your curiosity in this episode? Please send a text or voice note here... News about 'Creative Minds; Shaping the Future' going forward... Support the show Subscribe today: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2140148/supporters/new Thanks to Chloe Clayton - @clomyster on Instagram for creating the music for this podcast.  Please remember to follow so that you stay up to date with mont...

What sparked your curiosity in this episode? Please send a text or voice note here... Dr Lewis Fogarty is a director of a small group of nurseries in Berkshire and director of Teaching and Learning for the Department of Education at Brunel University.  Lewis explains that creativity is both for ourselves and for others, he notes that it requires a certain level of confidence to stand out from the...

What sparked your curiosity in this episode? Please send a text or voice note here... With a strong commitment to driving a positive impact in underprivileged communities in Uganda, Timothy Wambi was recently nominated for the Top 40 Under 40 Ugandans by the national News Paper Newvision.  He is the founder of Ajibu Community- a community-based organization dedicated to championing quality educati...

What sparked your curiosity in this episode? Please send a text or voice note here... Kavita is a classroom educator and co-founder of Catalyst learning labs, which guides school leaders and teachers through a cultural transformation that reconnects them to their original passion for learning, leading to increased student engagement and academic achievement. With Kavita’s guidance, educators aroun...

What sparked your curiosity in this episode? Please send a text or voice note here... Dr Poppy Gibbson, an Education researcher, author and lecturer joins us for this episode. Poppy shares her understanding of creativity creating new neural pathways, she agrees that creativity provides the opportunity for risk taking in safe environments and the opportunity to have fun. She highlights that collabo...

What sparked your curiosity in this episode? Please send a text or voice note here... Gavin McCormack, recognised as one of the top ten most influential global educators joins us for this episode. Gavin dispels the misconception that creativity is just art on a Friday afternoon and defines is at being able to look at a problem from multiple perspectives, critical thinking and data analysis playing...

What sparked your curiosity in this episode? Please send a text or voice note here... Pie Corbett is an English educational trainer, author and poet who has written more than 200 books. He is best known for 'Jumpstart Grammar' and 'Talk for Writing'.  In today's episode we discuss the importance of igniting the spark in our children and that curiosity should be nurtured. H...

What sparked your curiosity in this episode? Please send a text or voice note here... In this episode we meet the inspirational leadership team at St Ebbe's primary school in Oxford; Headteacher Tina Farr and her Deputy Clare Whyles. We discuss a 'living curriculum' philosophical questions and igniting fire in the bellies of children and adults alike. We highlight the importance of...

What sparked your curiosity in this episode? Please send a text or voice note here... This episode is a brief introduction to me, your host and this new podcast. I am a passionate educator keen to discuss creativity with others. I have some fantastic guests lined up, some you will already know and some you will want to know more about.   Other episodes will be longer than episode 0; see this episo...