After the Bell

At some point in our lives or career, we procrastinate and putting things off. Sometimes, this can be because the end feels too far off, or because the tasks we need to complete are so big they feel overwhelming. This podcast focuses on the benefits of being proactive, taking the initiative and getting started with things for school leaders and educators

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School positive educational is busy and prioritising can be a real challenge, often educators can end up juggling or be distracted. Covey identifies ‘keeping the main thing the main thing’ as one of ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’. This podcast explores how educaors and school leaders can prioritise effectively and stay focused on the things that really matter.

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In school, time often feels like the enemy-there is never enough. Often, educators do things themselves instead of prioritising because it is faster, or because it will get done properly. At other times, we don’t separate the important tasks from the mundane and can get bogged down. This podcast looks at strategies and approaches that can help you to make time your friend.

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We return to our Eduhabits series and this is podcast three of the series focusing on how to keep your tank full and the importance. 

As an educators, when we hear the well-being, we often think it refers to other people and spend time looking after the well-being of others. However, keeping your own tank full is important so that you keep your engine running smoothly. This podcast considers how educators can make sure that they look after their own well-being and model best practice for others.

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After the Bell return to explore the habits that positive educators need to develop in order to thrive and achieve success. We explore the habits that educators or “Eduhabits” need to develop to thrive and achieve success. Educators listen but the extent to which they listen with intent and listen to understand varies. Making time to listen to people and being genuinely interested in what can have a significant impact. When educators don’t listen, it results in frustration, negatively and conflict.  This podcast unpacks what great listening looks like and why it matters more than ever in your schools and when teaching and leading.

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Stephen Covey’s 7 ‘Habits of Highly Effective People’ was first published in 1989. More than 30 years later, our interest in positive educational habits remains high with the publication of books such as ‘Atomic Habits’ by James Clear. In this podcast series, our host, Georgie McIntyre, explores the habits that positive educators need to develop in order to thrive and achieve success.

Walking the talk

Whether it’s meeting deadlines or making sure you do your break duty, ‘walking the talk’ as an educator it is essential. In lots of respects, it’s the little things that people notice, and ‘walking the talk’ helps educators model the values and behaviours that set the tone and create a positive culture. This podcast explores what ‘walking the talk’ looks like when it is most effective within an educational environment

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We are joined again by Jon Bull, CEO, and founder of The Dog, Duck and Cat Trust who provides stories and resources for schools and parents to help support their children to learn about staying safe, in a way that is fun and age a, in their day to day lives and in their local community. DDC have been working closely with partners including West Midlands Police to support a new project focusing on young people’s education around Equality, Responsibility and friendship referred to as the ERF Project. 

Since March 2020, thousands of young people have shared their experiences of sexual harassment via the 'Everyone's Invited' project. This was an online platform where young people described growing up in a world of online and offline harassment. This has meant that organisations, including the Government and Ofsted, have been working together to bring about much needed change.

Ofsted's review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges revealed how prevalent sexual harassment and online sexual abuse is for children and young people in education settings, particularly for girls and young women. In fact, the review concluded that the issues are so widespread that they need to be addressed by all schools, regardless of what type, phase or age of pupils.

The Equality, Responsibility and Friendship (ERF) project was developed as a response to some of these issues, and in order to help primary schools to address related themes with pupils in an age-appropriate way via the curriculum. You can find out more https://www.dogduckandcat.co.uk/

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Is child safeguarding child's play? In this week's episode of After the Bell, we are joined by Jon Bull, the CEO and founder of The Dog, Duck, and Cat Trust. DDC is a charity founded six years ago to provide stories, support, and resources for schools and parents to help support their children to learn about staying safe. The stories and resources are designed in a way that is fun and age-appropriate, in their day-to-day lives and in their local community. Designed for the Key Stage 1 and 2 ages Jon's stories are engaging, animated with important messaging around key themes such as substance abuse, bullying, and harm. These subjects can be quite hard to talk about, we discuss when is the right time to have these discussions with our young people? Jon shares with us how the charity was founded and the adventures of Dog, Duck, and Cat.

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Emerging trends in education for 2022. Joined by Lorna Bradford, Andy Bridge and Helen Morgan with the anticipated white paper due for publication in May, the first since 2016, we discuss what this means for the education arena. We talk about the whole student focus and how important wellbeing is more than ever, and also how we can continue to keep learning coherent, whilst focusing on priorities.

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Our final podcast for the year and series 1 of After the Bell. Joined by Helen, Andy and Lorna, we reflect on the education year of 2021 and what a year it has been!!!! A year which has required teachers to be educators, supporters, mentors, counsellors, allies, not to mention IT experts with a toolkit of flexible project management skills. We will delve deeper on our reflections, celebrate our education community heroes and discuss how they have been then glue for community cohesion. Lorna shares some insprational stories of our education lockdown heroes as judge for The Pearson Teacher of the Year Awards

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