In this episode we chat with Gail Preston, Head Teacher and Head of Establishment for Rosehill High School in East Lothian. Rosehill High School is a brand new school so this is a rare and pretty unique opportunity and as I'm sure you can imagine, an exciting one! Gail kindly took time out to share and reflect on the highs, the lows and all the things in between. Although Gail has a unique opportunity there's lots here for all of us to think about and consider.

Connect with Gail on twitter.

Follow Rosehill's journey here.

In this episode we dive into 'hard conversations' with Jennifer Abrams. Jennifer's work focuses on adult to adult communication and she's written many books and articles on the topic. This is a conversation of insights and reflections as well as practical ideas to consider.

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Find out more about Jennifer's work here.

We were delighted to chat again with Paul Bloomberg and this time he was joined by his colleague and co-write Vivett Dukes. In this conversation we explore their new book, Amplifying Student Voice - through culturally responsive and sustaining assessment. This was an honest and heart felt conversation about their equity work and their process of bringing this book into being. They talk about listening and engaging with an open heart, we invite you to listen with an open heart and an openness to possibility.

You can find out more about their work at The Core Collaborative here.

Get a copy of the book here (and other places of course).

Connect with Paul on twitter.

Connect with Vivett on twitter.

Dr Lucy Kelly is an Associate Professor in Education at the University of Bristol. Her research interest is reflective practice as a positive tool for educator wellbeing. She is the Principal Investigator for the 'Reimagining the Diary' project and author of 'Reimagining the Diary' published just last month.

Find our more about Lucy's research project here.

Reimagining the Diary is published by John Catt Publishing and is available on their website here.

The Reimagining the Diary Toolkit is available here.

Connect with Lucy on twitter.

Oliver Burkeman is a journalist and author, whose latest book is Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management For Mortals. This is a book about embracing our limitations, our imperfections and shifting our relationship with time. We explore the key messages from 4000 weeks and the particular nuance of our experiences as educators. 

OliverBurkeman.com 

Tracey joins us again to unpack the 'Buzz', there's lots of connection with Ferocious Warmth and our earlier conversation.  Tracey helps us to unpack the architecture of collaboration, both within and across schools. 

Tracey Ezard 

Amy Edmundson - Psychological Safety 

Tim Clarke - The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety 

Inspired by Atomic Habits by James Clear, Project Habit is all about small doable shifts in practice that support learners to develop agency in their own learning. We explore why and how the book came about and how our understanding of habits can help us improve and develop our practice.

The Project Habit: Making Rigorous PBL Doable by Michael McDowell and Kelley Miller is available now.

Connect with Michael on twitter - here 

Connect with Kelley on twitter - here

Oscar is on a mission to create a 100 million good listeners in the workplace. We're doing our bit by helping share the mindset and practices of listening well in this conversation. Listening is a mindset and in this episode we explore what that means.  

Find out more here 

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Deep Listening Podcast 

In this episode we chat with Jamie Thom, author of three books, podcaster and lecturer at Napier University. We journey through different elements of Jamie’s interests such as slow teaching, teacher resilience and supporting new teachers.

Connect with Jamie on twitter @teachgratitude1

Listen to Jamie’s podcast on all platforms: Beyond Survival: The New Teacher Podcast

Read more from Jamie:

Slow Teaching: On finding clam, clarity and impact in the classroom

Teacher Resilience: Managing stress and anxiety to thrive in the classroom

A Quiet Education: Challenging the extrovert ideal in our schools

Talking to Teenagers: A guide to skillful classroom communication