Beyond Good

Matt and Femi chat to metacognition enthusiast Nathan Burns about metacognition, knowledge, knowledge organisers and much much more.

Check out Nathan's resources on his website:
https://www.mrmetacognition.com/

Femi and Matt discuss the enactment gap - teasing apart what it is exactly, diagnosing solutions to the problem and then get into the pragmatism of supporting teachers to improve elements of their practice - trying to figure out when and how to intervene if a colleague is struggling with students during unstructured time.

Femi tells Matt about his recent visit to another high performing school - this time Q3 Academy Langley in the West Midlands.
This brings up the topics of participation and thinking ratio - leading to a spirited discussion about 'pair talk', 'everybody writes' and other approaches to increasing thinking and participation.

Femi talks to Matt about how he is now thinking about PD - from individual all the way to whole-school.

Matt and Femi discuss duties, handling pupils, being authentic, leadership, supporting colleagues and much more!

See the video podcast on youtube.

Video Lesson Analysis: Barry Smith Teaching French
https://youtu.be/qs0S4sYvBZ0?feature=shared

Barry's Full French Lesson
https://youtu.be/WtO1YWhwAGE?feature=shared

Doug Lemov's Field Notes
https://teachlikeachampion.org/tag/barry-smith/

Matt and Femi talk to Miriam Hussain about whole-school systems for behaviour, for teaching and learning, about SLT, the vision of the head teacher and much more!

Matt and Femi reflect on leading departments, the evolving process of implementing coaching and department meetings as colleagues' needs change over time, and turn their thoughts forward to leading culture change, teaching and learning and implementing coaching whole school.

Matt and Femi are joined by Josh Goodrich, author of 'Responsive Coaching', former teacher and senior leader and CEO of steplab.

Responsive Coaching 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Responsive-Coaching-Evidence-informed-instructional-coaching/dp/1036003213

Steplab
www.steplab.co

Matt and Femi speak to former student Lily about school and learning from the other side of the desk.  Their discussion ranges from the impact that a great teacher can have on a student's choices and life, through to accounting for students who are struggling with pastoral issues and even to the teacher recruitment crisis and questions of how to get intelligent people like Lily into the profession.