BARRY SMITH EDUCATION

Overwhelmed? PART 6. Reasonable Adjustment? 14.10.2023 35:43 ↓

What if we just fixed the school cukture? Just recognised adult failings? Didn’t medicalise normal reactions?

Overwhelmed? PART 5. Learning to be WARM 04.10.2023 42:32 ↓

42 mins! I was on a roll! Chunk it down. Revisit in chunks. Dive in! Whatever u fancy!

Overwhelmed? PART4. F E A R! 28.09.2023 32:15 ↓

It’s a balancing act. What is the ‘RIGHT’ thing?

Overwhelmed? Part 3. Vigilance & Confidence 21.09.2023 32:13 ↓

You’re 3 weeks into term. Kids are pushing back. Staff aren’t following the PowerPoint you showed them at the start of term. This is what to do next.

Overwhelmed? PART TWO. Break & Lunch Culture 16.09.2023 23:28 ↓

Vigilance & Detail - what’s normal in your school? U design that normal or it just happened?

Overwhelmed? Culture Change - where to start? 09.09.2023 30:57 ↓

It’s about values, instinct, details, precision…over communication

Relationships - it’s all about hierarchies 01.09.2023 28:57 ↓

If you’re uncomfortable with hierarchies…you’re stuck!

It’s not the typing that changes culture 02.08.2023 24:04 ↓

Anyone can type a policy. A written policy will never encompass everything you need. You over-communicate through every interaction & immediately correcting actions that undermine your values.

Start of the day, TOILETS, & sooo much more! 13.07.2023 13:12 ↓

DM me if you’ve got questions. Voice messages especially easy.

ORACY? Why are kids so inarticulate so often? 06.07.2023 26:27 ↓

It’s complex! But there’s lots schools can do. But we have to be deliberate & habitual.

Uniform? Why do so few schools get it right? 05.07.2023 22:52 ↓

In the words of Wham! ‘If you’re gonna do it, do it right!’

Behaviour is ok. But kids lack motivation. They’re passive. Really? 07.06.2023 25:24 ↓

The problem is bigger than you think!

Internal Truancy - a symptom of a greater malaise 07.06.2023 20:17 ↓

19 mins. It’s a bigger picture issue.

MFL nutshell part 2 07.06.2023 7:03 ↓

Ends abruptly! Technical issue! You know me & tech! But you’ve 7 minutes here. A nugget of mfl teaching! DM if you’ve specific questions. I can address these in subsequent podcasts.

My take on MFL teaching in a nutshell! PART ONE 02.06.2023 14:49 ↓

There’s lots more to say. Here’s PART ONE. DM me with questions on mfl teaching & I’ll address those in subsequent episodes. Les doigts dans le nez!

More on being a form tutor PART TWO 01.06.2023 17:59 ↓

You can’t build a school on hero teachers or the luck of the draw. That’s not leadership. It’s roulette!

Form periods or Assemblies? Assemblies of course! 30.05.2023 19:37 ↓

We can’t afford to hand over culture to 35 different teachers every morning. I actually want pupils to spend as little time as possible with their firm tutors.

Merits for being polite? Really? 15.05.2023 13:24 ↓

The ‘reward’ is the relationship. That’s the aim.

SLANT…are we deliberately misrepresenting one another? 04.05.2023 19:54 ↓

I’m very pro SLANT. Does that mean I hate kids? If I were very anti SLANT, would that mean I want chaos?

Internal isolation & so much more! 29 minutes 13.04.2023 27:56 ↓

It’s simple stuff but you’ve got to think about whole school culture

Defining your vision PART ONE 28.03.2023 21:24 ↓

20 minutes. What do you want to see and hear as you walk around school? How you going to get there?

More about ‘pace’. How the term is misused. How to inject more ‘pace’. What goes wrong & why. 22.12.2022 23:44 ↓

Merry Xmas! Routines. Scripts. Norms. Preemptive teaching. Unapologetically the expert. As old as time. Mais personne n’écoute donc…

So many lessons lack pace. It’s a whole school issue. Part 1 11.12.2022 10:13 ↓

Lots more to say on this. Some initial ideas.