I am joined by Sam Strickland aka the Strickomaster. Sam is a former History teacher who now works as the Principal of the Duston School in Northampton. Sam has overseen his Schools GCSE results from the bottom 20% to the top 20% Nationally. Sam's first book Education Exposed published by John Catt in 2020 was a feature of Podcast 12 back in April 2020. Sam’s punchy follow up Education Exposed 2 was published in November 2020.

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Jonathan Firth is an author, PGDE tutor & school psychology teacher. His research interests focus on memory and on teacher research engagement, and he has authored several books relating to the psychology of education, as well as school psychology textbooks including Psychology in the Classroom, How to Learn and Teacher’s Guide to Research

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Sarah Larsen has been a Geography Teacher in and around Greater London for 22 years. Prior to having her first child, she led the Geography Department in her current school. She is passionate about being research-informed and in 2018 , she was one of 13 teachers who carried out research for UCL and Ross McGill’s ‘Verbal Feedback Project’. She has spoken at several educational events about the merits of verbal feedback including ResearchEd Surrey and TMGeogIcons.

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Pritesh Raichura is Head of Science at Michaela Community School. He blogs at bunsenblue.wordpress.com about school values, pedagogy & #CogSciSci. He has recently contributed two chapters in the new book 'The Power of Culture' written by Michaela teachers. Pritesh has given talks at a number of ResearchEd events on topics such as Quality Teacher Talk, Effective Planning of Teacher Led Lessons and Effective Questioning, which we will look into in today's podcast.

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Jack is a geography teacher and was head of geography for four years, prior to taking up the role of assistant headteacher, with the primary responsibility of ITT and NQT to NQT+3 teacher development. Jack now leads teaching and learning across the school and the school’s aim is to become research-informed in all that they do, as teachers, in the classroom. Jack is also an ELE - Evidence Lead in Education with Durrington Research School Jack is also the organiser of ResearchED Surrey, which was only a few weeks ago and is all available online, i’d highly recommend viewing some of those videos. Jack’s main aim is to ensure that all classrooms are truly inclusive and that teachers understand how they can be more effective than they already are, whilst always improving his own teaching too.

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Adam Riches is a full time English teacher in the UK. He is a senior leader for teaching and learning and a specialist leader in education. Adam contributes writing to Teach Secondary, Teach Primary, SecEd and TES. Adam is the author of the brilliant ‘Teach Smarter: Efficient and Effective Strategies for Early Career Teachers’.

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Zoe Enser was a classroom English teacher for over 20 years as well as head of department and school leader in charge of improving teaching and learning. She is now lead English specialist advisor for Kent with The Education People. Mark Enser has been a geography teacher for the best part of two decades as well as a head of department and research lead. He is the author of Making Every Geography Lesson Count and Teach Like Nobody’s Watching and is a TES columnist. Together they have written the excellent ‘Fiorella & Mayer’s Generative Learning in Action’ as part of the In Action series from John Catt Educational.

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Tom Bennett was a teacher in the East End of London for thirteen years. Currently he is the Director and founder of researchED, a grass-roots, teacher-led project that aims to make teachers research-literate and pseudo-science proof. Since 2013 researchED has grown from a tweet to an international conference movement that so far has spanned three continents and six countries. In 2009 he was made a Teacher Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. From 2008-2016 he wrote a weekly column for the TES and TES online, and is the author of four books on teacher-training, behaviour management and educational research including his latest book, the outstanding ‘Running the Room’.

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Michael Chiles began as a geography teacher in a secondary school in the West Midlands. There he became head of department and then a senior leader with responsibility for teaching and learning. Michael then relocated to the North West, stepping out of the classroom to develop and deliver teacher training both nationally and internationally. He is now head of department in a secondary school in the north west and is the author of ‘The CRAFT of Assessment’.

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Ros Wilson entered the teaching profession in 1965 and has served continuously since. She has wide experience in education, including: working with pupils with SEND; working with pupils with EAL; senior leadership; head of a large primary department overseas; local authority advisor; primary strategy manager; independent consultant; advanced skills teacher  assessor; Ofsted inspector; creator and published author of Big Writing and associated texts. Most recently she has published ‘It Takes 5 Years to Become a Teacher’ co-authored with some great names including Dame Alison Peacock and Professor Sam Twiselton.

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