Phil Beadle is a sometimes well thought of British educator who has authored ten books on teaching and learning including the 10/10 How to Teach. He is the editor of the How to Teach series, and has written for the Times, the Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and the Telegraph (though he is ashamed of this last one). His series of columns for Education Guardian ran for nine years before being cancelled due to bad behaviour. He is a former UK teacher of the year with 20 years experience of achieving transformational results with students from challenging areas. You may recognise him from the outstanding Channel 4 programme The Unteachables or from his many appearances on Teachers TV. More recently he has authored and published The Fascist Painting: What is Cultural Capital?

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Jonny Uttley is the CEO of The Education Alliance Multi-Academy Trust in East Yorkshire and Hull and was previously head teacher at South Hunsley School. As a National Leader of Education, he has worked with schools in many different contexts and is committed to a school improvement approach that puts ethical leadership at the heart of our system so schools create cultures in which staff genuinely thrive. Jonny writes a blog called “Trust Leadership” and speaks on leadership and school culture. Jonny is also a co-author of the wonderful Putting Staff First alongside John Tomsett.

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Hanna Beech is a deputy headteacher at a recently opened primary school in Kent, where she leads on embedding effective teaching and learning and building the school curriculum. Before becoming a senior leader, she was a key stage 2 phase leader at a large primary school. A keen writer and passionate educator, Hanna has contributed articles to Teacher Toolkit, Kent Teach and Tes. She is the author of the wonderful new book 60 Second CPD: 239 ideas for busy teachers with Ross Morrison McGill.

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Stuart Farmer is a teacher and teacher educator. He worked as a physics teacher and a Principal Teacher of physics for 35 years. During this time he has been very active in supporting teachers’ professional learning. Stuart has an MBA in Educational Management and an MSc in Teacher Education and is currently studying for a PhD in Teacher Education with a focus on Career-long Professional Learning. Stuart now works as the Education Manager for the Institute of Physics in Scotland

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David Weston is a former maths and science teacher with over 10 years experience. He is the founder and chief executive of the Teacher Development Trust. In March, 2015 he was appointed by the Department for Education as Chair of the Teacher’s professional Development Expert Group. He was a founding Director of the Chartered College of Teaching. David has written and spoken extensively in the media about teaching and teacher development and has had a number of radio and TV appearances discussing teaching and LGBT issues. David also co-authored with Bridget Clay ‘Unleashing Great Teaching: The Secrets to Effective Teacher Development”.

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Ross Morrison McGill founded @TeacherToolkit from a simple Twitter account through which he rapidly became the 'most followed teacher on social media in the UK'. In 2015, he was nominated as one of the '500 Most Influential People in Britain' by The Sunday Times as a result of being most influential in the field of education. He remains the only classroom teacher to feature to this day ... Sharing resources and ideas online as @TeacherToolkit, he has built his website (c2008) which has been described as one of the 'most influential blogs on education in the UK', winning the UK Blog Awards (2018). Ross is also a best selling author of ‘100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers’, ‘Teacher Toolkit: Helping you Survive your First Five Years’, ‘Mark.Plan.Teach’ and ‘Just Great Teaching’

 

We discussed the following blogs during the episode and i'd highly recommend delving deeper into Ross' blog:

https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2020/04/14/teaching-memory/

https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2019/09/28/verbal-feedback-report/

We also discussed Effective Teacher Development which can be found on the following blog from Ross:

https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2019/05/05/effective-cpd/

 

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Iain White was a headteacher for over 25 years in Glasgow. First at Govan High, where he had 100% positive destinations for his leavers despite some dire socioeconomic backgrounds and 60% of his school roll entitled to free school meals. Secondly at Newlands Junior College where Iain provided alternative provision for young people who were at risk in S3 and S4 of leaving education with nothing to show for it. Iain is a fine example of the empowerment agenda in action and now works as a consultant for education.

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Tom Sherrington is a former teacher and school leader with over 30 years experience. Tom has worked in a wide range of schools in the UK and as far afield as Jakarta, Indonesia. Tom works as an educational consultant supporting schools with curriculum, assessment and improving the quality of teaching. Tom speaks regularly at conferences and education festivals. Tom is a prolific blogger sharing his ideas through teacherhead.com and is a prominent twitter educationalist. He has written some brilliant books including ‘Rosenshines Principles in Action’ and the outstanding ‘The Learning Rainforest, Great Teaching in Real Classrooms’. Most recently he co-authored the brilliant ‘Teaching Walkthru’s’ which really is an amazing contribution to education.

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Jon Tait is the Director of School Improvement and Deputy CEO at Arete Learning Trust in North Yorkshire. Jon started teaching in 2001 as a qualified PE teacher and more recently has taught Computer Science. Jon has been a senior leader for 13 of his 19 years in teaching. At school Jon was a free school meals student and was what we now class as disadvantaged and went to university on a full grant. Outside of education Jon carried the Olympic Torch in 2012, has coached American Football for Great Britain and has played in the FA Cup. Jon is the author of four books, 100 ideas for engaging learners, Bloomsbury CPD Library: Senior Leadership, Succeeding as a Head of Year and his latest publication Teaching Rebooted.

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Neil Gilbride is a Lecturer in Education at the University of Gloucestershire, where he works on Educational Leadership and Teacher Development. As an Adult Developmental Psychologist, his cutting edge research looks at the role adult development plays in how leaders respond to their organisations and those within them. He regularly works across Education and beyond., supporting organisations in Leadership, Management and Education: He is an  academic advisor to Ambition School Leadership, the Chartered College of Teaching, St Georges Widening participation programme and  several other organisations within Education and beyond the sphere of Education

Neil’s career over the past 14 years has spanned across a range of areas in Education as a practitioner, academic and researcher. As a teacher and Teach First Ambassador, he taught secondary science for 5 years. He has researched across a range of areas in Education as a social social worker, carer and specialist in Special Educational Needs, counsellor, widening participation mentor and School Governor.  His academic background is diverse and he has worked across Biomedical Science Special Educational Needs, Adult Developmental Psychology and Educational Leadership and Policy.

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