Changing Conversations

In this episode we chat with Bex Ewart who hosts Education Scotland's Pedagogy Podcast. We take the opportunity to explore Bex's current big thinking around the role of teacher - educator - adult. We hope it sparks something for you!

As part of our World Education Summit mini-series, we're highlighting some of this year's brilliant speakers. This week we revisit our virtuous leadership conversation with Viviane Robinson.

This episode was recorded live with colleagues from across Scotland and beyond on Thursday 1st February 2024. Having chatted with both Michael and Santiago on different occasions we were keen to create an opportunity for their thinking to come together live, with you, our listeners. It was a fast hour and as always they left us with a sense of hope and possibility.

As part of our World Education Summit mini-series, we're highlighting some of this year's brilliant speakers. First up, Michael Fullan.

In this episode, we are joined by Andy Griffith and Margaret Pollock. Andy is the co-author of Teaching Backwards, Engaging Learners and the Outstanding Teaching Intervention. Margaret is DHT at St Luke's High School in Barrhead. Andy's new book is called The Working Classroom and having spent some time with the team at St Luke's it was great to have the opportunity to explore the principles and ideas within the book along with Margaret's experience and reflections.

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The World Education Summit is now in its fourth year. Launching globally across 4 live days with 12 dynamic stages, 400+ speakers and 1000s of educators. It is a stimulus for improvement, a catalyst for change where together we learn, challenge and inspire not just for the 4 days but with access for the year. 

In this first episode of a short series celebrating #WorldEdSummit we hear from Anne-Marie, one of its co-founders about how it came about and how its evolved into what it is now.

Simon's conversations are among our most popular episodes and in this conversation, we chat about why the concept of sustainable improvement might have resonated so much with you.

Simon shares some candid reflections following his visit to Scotland in September. He suggests 3 areas we might useful to consider - precision, alignment and sustainability.

We then circle back to the sustainability idea and explore the pruning principle and how it might help us to create the sustainable improvement we so eagerly seek.

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In this episode we chat with Hollie Edwards, Director of Mental Health and Wellbeing at a Junior School in Kent. She is also the author of 'Reflective Supervision in Education: Using Supervision to Support Pupil and Staff Wellbeing'. Hollie shares her experience and insight about offering supervision in the schools she works in. She shares the challenges as well as what works and we reflect on the importance of recognising the human behind the educator role.

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Hollie's book is available here.

In this episode, we chat with Anne Paterson about rural education. Often considered the 'poor relation', Anne is passionate about helping us see the opportunities of rural education as well as recognising the skillset that leaders require and develop in these settings.

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David is the Head Teacher of Dunoon Grammar School. Having recently won 2 prestigious awards in relation to community collaboration David shares their story. It didn't happen overnight, David shares some of the elements that have supported them to get to where they are, how they sustain that and what next.

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