FLOURISHING EDUCATION - SAFER AND BRAVER SPACE(S) TO BE AND BECOME WELL TOGETHER

This episode was a real joy and pleasure to record. I was very lucky to chat with the wonderful Kristen Helmsetter, author of Coffee Self-Talk - 5 minutes a day to start living your magical life as well as romance novels under the pen name Brisa Starr . If you have heard of the importance our our mind chatter and inner dialogue and want to develop new and healthier habits, then this book (and this...

In this episode, I have a fascinating conversation with Alison Kriel who shares her experience as Head Teacher and CEO who has both turned around a failing school within a deprived area of London from the bottom 1% to the top 0.1% in 3 years and then sustained the success for a further 6 years. Alison also shares why she believes that school staff know their school best and why she has launched a...

In this episode, I speak with Brandi Heather - Award-Winning Disability and Inclusion Educator, Consultant, Business Owner of Amped2play , Play Coach, Inspirational Speaker, and Canadian Best Selling Author of Return To Play: Rebuilding Resilience, Risk and Reconnection. You can also buy it if you are in France and Germany Brandi and I talk about how together, we build diverse and inclusive cultur...

In this episode, I speak with Dr James Mannion , Director, Rethinking Education . Specialists in research-informed school improvement and professional development. We discuss all the fantastic work James has been doing, including his Rethinking Education Mighty Network and Rethinking Education podcast . You can also join his Rethinking Education Facebook Group  and Rethinking Education C...

In this episode, I talk about Dr Laura Biggart , a Senior Lecturer in Social Science Research and Psychology in the School of Psychology and the Director of Enterprise and Extermal Relations for the School of Psychology. Laura is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. We talk about the difference between emotional intelligence and emotional resilience but we also explore Laura's work: The...

This episode was so easy and fun to record - David Anderson or Pep the Poet. His mission is to ‘scatter sunshine one poem at a time.’ David is the easiest man to talk to and so humble. We talk about the books he has written:  poetry for children, but also for student teachers and educators. We also discuss fear and love and why fear tells lies. A must listen to!

I am really delighted to be sharing this wonderful conversation with Graham Frost - a speaker who helps young people make better choices and heart-shaped decisions. In this wonderful episode Graham shares his own heart-shaped decisions which include leaving his whole family behind at the age of 17 to start a new life, and just two years later, getting away from a life of petty crime after a spell...

I am very happy to share this conversation with Helen Clare , she is a former primary school teacher. She's also a senior yoga teacher, founder of   Class Yoga . Her vision is to improve the physical and mental wellbeing of children globally, no matter their background, by enabling teachers, parents and carers to offer excellent quality yoga and mindfulness for them, at school and at home. We...

I am delighted to share this extremely powerful conversation with Dave McPartlin , Head teacher of Flakefleet Primary as well as BBCbitesize presenter. Britain's Got Talent Golden Buzzer Finalist, Happiest school 2018 and School of the Year runner up 2019. David share with me why happy children = happy learners. We did talk about BGT but we also went much deeper and discussed the importance of min...

I am delighted to be sharing this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with Raheen Fatima .  Raheen is a 13 year-old girl from Pakistan. She is a peace and SDGs activist, standup-comedian, Theater Actress and Interviewer.  Her goal is to empower People around her to foster the global peace. Enjoy our conversation! I loved it. I am sure you will too.

I am so happy to be sharing this powerful conversation with Yumna Hussen, co-author of Struggles of War . Yumna is a multi-hyphenate growth enthusiast, committed to influencing transformational change to ensure marginalised young people’s voices are directly embedded in policy making.  She is the elected Deputy Member of Youth Parliament for Birmingham and the Chair of Birmingham Aspiring You...

I am delighted to share this conversation with Lottie Cook , activist, public speaker, writer and A-level student who is also part of pupil power. Lottie tells me why we need to listen to young people and act on what they are sharing and saying to us. A truly powerful and magical conversation.

This week is all about young people and we start this Monday with Olivia Barnes . She is 17, lives in the US and describes as a self-directed learner, a lover of learning. Listen to what she has to say about her experience. I was so impressed by her eloquence and her ability to express herself so clearly and effectively. You will understand why she calls herself a lover of learning. I have found a...

In this episode, I talk with Professor Guy Claxton . We discuss his new book ' The Future of Teaching: And the Myths That Hold It Back ' and why it's time for the educational slugfest to stop. He also told me why the search for a new model of education – one that is genuinely empowering for all young people – is serious and necessary. A must listen for anybody who wants to see change in education!

I am so happy to share this conversation with Heather MacTaggart creator of the Unschooling school movement - let's make school fit the learner. Heather is a mother of four children, passionate about making the education system work for everyone. She is also Founder and Executive Director of Classroom Connections , on-site leader,  Change It Up  initiatives within Alberta First Nati...

This episode is an outstanding conversation with Derry Hanham . He shares with me about how in his twenty years as a teacher in English state secondary schools he always tried to create environments where students could make choices about and take care control of their own learning in a democratic and rights respecting context. We talk about his book Another Way is possible - hardcopy or ebook Der...

This is a beautiful conversation with Elsa Torres about equity and inclusion. I highly recommend it. It was such a powerful chat. Elsa tells us to: be gentle on ourselves  there's always a story behind any behaviour build empathy for each child serve all children

Wonderful to finish the week with this powerful interview with Scott Van Beck who is co-founder of The Education Game . We talk about our importance and role as parents, how we can become learning coaches instead and start asking questions instead of telling our children what to do.

A short conversation with Beau McCoy , Founder and CEO at SOLcademy . We talk about his new educational short-format video platform, distraction-free & ad-free and the benefits it brings to learners, parents and educators.

Today, I am particularly excited to share my interview with Shannon Ross . He is Founder and Executive Director of The Community . Emotional intelligence expert. HIGH-motor, highly-principled entrepreneur and Reentry/reform consultant. Shannon truly inspired me during this interview and we talked about his experience in prison, how it changed him and all about his work on Reentry and reform consul...

I am very excited to be sharing this episode with Emmanual Ponchon , who is Multicultural educator - eduScrum Rep / Trainer for Spain and France. Languages & Effective Communication Trainer / Coach. In this episode, Emmanuel tells us about eduScrum and his amazing work with the Treehouse but we also discuss what it would be like if we considered education as an ecosystem. What happens when we...

Today I talk with Seth Fleischauer , President & founder at Banyan Global Learning ; founder at Lingoloop; expert in video conferencing, international teaching, SEL & K-12 online education. We talk about his amazing work at the intersection of technology, language, culture and social and emotional learning.  Seth invites us to: consider what we are learning right now analyse and bring...

We often say that our schooling system is not working. Well today, I am going to share the amazing work done by the wonderful Wayne Haworth who is Principal at Hampton Park Secondary College in Australia. Wayne shares his journey and his innovative thinking and approach and why we want young people to be lifelong lovers of learning. A must listen for those who have lost faith in the current school...

This week, I talk to Kathryn Pratt - Founder at Soweni (Cornish for Thrive) where we discuss the origins of this empowering non-profit, which is evolving education for the 21st Century in the Age of Corona.  It’s all about Ecosystem Learning where the traditional boxes of family life, work life & school are blown apart and education becomes an exciting, inquiry driven, supported open jour...

This week I talk with Lee Pace , Deputy Headteacher who specialises in pedagogy and curriculum design. We talk about the concept of cognitive load, cognitive overload and how great curriculum design, tailored to the needs of pupils, complimented by research informed pedagogy will lead to amazing outcomes, giving learners hope for the future.