ASCL

ASCL Leadership Podcast

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) is the leading professional association and trade union for all school, college and trust leaders. We are proud to support and represent more than 25,000 leaders of primary, secondary and post-16 education from across the UK.Our podcasts feature senior leaders from around the UK, across all phases, covering a wide variety of topics in conversation with ASCL.Our podcast series include:Business BrunchPrimary podcastSEND BitesLeadership podcastsThe Trust ASCL Leadership podcastsLeaders are ReadersStepping upSpecialist podcasts

Author

ASCL

Category

Education

Podcast website

www.ascl.org.uk

Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

ASCL Primary Podcast | Denham Kite 28.06.2021

ASCL's Primary Specialist Tiffnie Harris talks Denham Kite, Headteacher, Krishna Avanti Primary School

The ASCL Business Brunch Live | June 2021 09.06.2021

Join our policy specialists and Business Brunch podcast co-hosts, Hayley Dunn and Julia Harnden - both former school business leaders - for an informal catch-up conversation, talking about the issues business leaders are dealing with now and are likely to be facing in the future.

The ASCL Business Brunch | May 2021 18.05.2021

Join our policy specialists, Hayley Dunn, Louise Hatswell and Julia Harnden - all former school business leaders - for our new informal catchup conversations aimed at business leader professionals, talking about the issues you are dealing with now. www.ascl.org.uk/podcasts/brunch

The ASCL Business Brunch | April 2021 19.04.2021

Join our policy specialists, Hayley Dunn, Louise Hatswell and Julia Harnden - all former school business leaders - for our new informal catchup conversations aimed at business leader professionals, talking about the issues you are dealing with now. www.ascl.org.uk/podcasts/brunch

Leaders are Readers | Tiffnie Harris 24.03.2021

Tiffnie Harris ASCL Primary Specialist • J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye • Jim Lawless, Taming Tigers • Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Leaders are Readers | Stephen Moore 24.03.2021

Stephen Moore Principal, Friends School, Lisburn and President of ASCL Northern Ireland • Daniel Willingham, Why Children Don’t Like School • Thomas Erikson, Surrounded by Idiots • Iain McGilchrist, The Master and his Emissary • Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

Leaders are Readers | Sara Ford 24.03.2021

Sara Ford ASCL Deputy Director of Policy • Roland Barthes, Image, Music, Text • George Orwell, Animal Farm • AA Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

Leaders are Readers | Russell Clarke 24.03.2021

Russell Clarke Deputy Headteacher, Haslingden High School and ASCL Council member • A Promised Land, by Barack Obama • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy • Traceless, by Geoff Cox and Heather Dawe

Leaders are Readers | Rachel Bertenshaw 24.03.2021

Rachel Bertenshaw ASCL Deputy Director of Member Support • The Faber Book of Children’s verse • Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and her Children • Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl

Leaders are Readers | Tanya Douglas 24.03.2021

Tanya Douglas Interim Headteacher, Chase High School, and ASCL Council member • Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird • Alice Walker, The Colour Purple • Bernadine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

Leaders are Readers | Neil Wallace 24.03.2021

Neil Wallace Headteacher, Stratford School, and ASCL Council Member • One Way Ticket; Nine lives on two wheels, Jonathan Vaughters (2019) • Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld (2020) • V2, Robert Harris (2020) • Memoirs, Mikhail Gorbachev (1995)

Leaders are Readers | Pepe Di’lasio 24.03.2021

Pepe Di’lasio Headteacher, Wales High School, Rotherham, and ASCL Vice President • Lemn Sissay, My Name Is Why

Leaders are Readers | Jo Marchant 17.03.2021

Jo Marchant Strategic Business Leader, Nexus Foundation Special School, and ASCL Council member • The Working Woman's Handbook by Phoebe Lovatt • The School Business Manager's Handbook by Hayley Dunn • Humanocracy by Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini

Leaders are Readers | Jim Thewlis 17.03.2021

Jim Thewlis General Secretary, School Leaders Scotland • The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck • More than Feelings of Concern-Guidance and Scottish Secondary Schools: Published by Consultative Committee on the Curriculum 1986 • Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black

Leaders are Readers | Caroline Lowing 17.03.2021

Caroline Lowing Deputy Headteacher Harrow Way Community School • The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi • Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel Willingham.

Leaders are Readers | Julie McCulloch 17.03.2021

Julie McCulloch ASCL Director of Policy • Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles • John Higgs, Stranger than We Can Imagine • Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level

Leaders are Readers | Martyn Beer 17.03.2021

Martyn Beer Deputy Head, Bootham School, York, and ASCL Council member • Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea • Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse • John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Leaders are Readers | Gurpall Badesha 12.03.2021

Gurpall Bedesha Deputy Headteacher & ASCL Council member • Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, & Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain • Bram Stoker, Dracula • Bill Bryson, The Body

Leaders are Readers | Donna Stephens 11.03.2021

Donna Stephens, CEO, Girls’ Schools Association • Jon Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath • Dave Eggers, What is the What • Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale • Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt • Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Leaders are Readers | Christian Markham 11.03.2021

Christian Markham ASCL Regional Officer, West Midlands • Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • Jim Lovell, Lost Moon • Stephen Fry, Mythos

Leaders are Readers | Chris Hildrew 11.03.2021

Chris Hildrew Headteacher, Churchill Academy & Sixth Form and ASCL Council member • Mindset by Dr Carol S Dweck • Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath • Oh, the places you’ll go! By Dr Seuss

Leaders are Readers | Catharine Darnton 11.03.2021

Catharine Darnton Headteacher, Gillotts School, Henley On Thames, & ASCL Council member • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice • Hart & Kuchermann, Children’s Understanding of Mathematics, 11-16 • Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet

ASCL Specialists | Jacques Szemalikowski 10.03.2021

Geoff Barton, ASCL General Secretary, talks to Jacques Szemalikowski, ASCL Conditions of Employment Specialist: Pensions, about what they have planned for Annual Conference 2021.

ASCL Specialists | Tiffnie Harris 10.03.2021

Geoff Barton, ASCL General Secretary, talks to Tiffnie Harris, ASCL Primary Specialist, about what they have planned for Annual Conference 2021.

The ASCL Business Brunch | March 2021 08.03.2021

Join our policy specialists, Hayley Dunn, Louise Hatswell and Julia Harnden - all former school business leaders - for our new informal catchup conversations aimed at business leader professionals, talking about the issues you are dealing with now. www.ascl.org.uk/podcasts/brunch 8 March 2021

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