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Winsy is the Global Director of Education & Innovation at Rocket Productions.

With over 16 years in the British independent education sector, she has held leadership roles, developed pedagogical frameworks, designed learning environments, delivered teacher training, and led action research.
For more than a decade, she has been developing innovative educational projects that go beyond traditional schooling, rooted in the belief that education should evolve with the world, and be meaningful, adaptable, and human. She is clear that modern education should see students as explorers, inventors, creators, and thinkers! 

Rocket Productions launched in 2018 with the ambition to start a revolution in education, nurturing tomorrow’s creators and thinkers. They have reimagined the learning landscape as a place of adventure, exploration and discovery, transforming spaces into 'theatres of learning' where joyful, memorable childhood experiences are crafted. Rocket productions have been recognised as one of 6 schools in the world leading educational advancement through progressive and creative education. 

Let's explore whether this is all Rocket Science or if this episode will fuel your fire to reach for the stars... 

Useful links: 

http://www.rocketproductions.com/

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Dr Mark Williams is an internationally recognised professor of cognitive neuroscience, (cognitive neuroscience is focused on studying the brain and learning, how it uses thought, senses and experiences to inform understanding and gain new knowledge) with over 25 years experience conducting behavioural and brain imaging research focusing on our social skills. He has taught neuroscience to a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as publishing more than 70 scientific articles which have featured in outlets globally including The New York Times, The Economist, The Guardian, and New Scientist. 

He has been awarded numerous high-profile fellowships and grants, and worked both at MIT in the USA and at universities in Australia.

In the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in our understanding of the human brain and one of his passions is making the many recent discoveries in cognitive neuroscience more accessible to the general public.  He is fascinated with how we interact, learn and think and says that understanding how our brains learn is essential for all teachers.

http://www.drmarkwilliams.com

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Dr Lewis Fogarty is a director of a small group of nurseries in Berkshire and director of Teaching and Learning for the Department of Education at Brunel University. 

Lewis explains that creativity is both for ourselves and for others, he notes that it requires a certain level of confidence to stand out from the crowd and we discuss together the importance of a psychologically safe environment to innovate, both for students and teachers. 

Useful Links:

How to start a movement: poor quality video but powerful message. 

Nivea Advert: the beautiful joy, playfulness and innocence of children. 

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With a strong commitment to driving a positive impact in underprivileged communities in Uganda, Timothy Wambi was recently nominated for the Top 40 Under 40 Ugandans by the national News Paper Newvision. 

He is the founder of Ajibu Community- a community-based organization dedicated to championing quality education for children by developing engaging and hands-on play and learning resources as well as teachers’ competencies in ensuring better learning outcomes for children. 

Ajibu Community provides educational opportunities to children who wouldn't have received any education at all, the community develops and distributes play and learning resources to make learning engaging and meaningful for children. They also run community workshops on early childhood education and train rural parents on purposeful home-based learning. 

Timothy envisions a world where all children have the tools to succeed and change the world.

Link to Ajibu Community:

https://ajibucommunity.org/

If you have been inspired to donate, please find the 'Go Fund Me' link here:

https://tinyurl.com/Go-fund-me-Ajibu-community

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Kavita is a classroom educator and co-founder of Catalyst learning labs, which guides school leaders and teachers through a cultural transformation that reconnects them to their original passion for learning, leading to increased student engagement and academic achievement.

With Kavita’s guidance, educators around the world and the young people they learn with come alive with curiosity, confidence and creativity; preparing students to be the empowered creative problem solvers that the world needs.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/catalyst-learning-labs/

https://www.catalystlearninglabs.org/ 

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Dr Poppy Gibbson, an Education researcher, author and lecturer joins us for this episode.

Poppy shares her understanding of creativity creating new neural pathways, she agrees that creativity provides the opportunity for risk taking in safe environments and the opportunity to have fun. She highlights that collaborative creativity opens our minds to new ideas and it is from these new ideas we grow and make connections. 

Poppy shares an interesting exercise she carried out over 7 years with trainee teachers which you can try with your own students. 

Link to the research mentioned in this episode:

Pahl's study:  https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=4867

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Gavin McCormack, recognised as one of the top ten most influential global educators joins us for this episode.

Gavin dispels the misconception that creativity is just art on a Friday afternoon and defines is at being able to look at a problem from multiple perspectives, critical thinking and data analysis playing a large part. 

He shares examples of his own creative approaches and explains why creative thinking is crucial in todays information rich climate. 

Links:

https://upschool.co/

https://upschool.co/courses/write-a-book/

https://www.evertreen.com/

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Pie Corbett is an English educational trainer, author and poet who has written more than 200 books. He is best known for 'Jumpstart Grammar' and 'Talk for Writing'. 

In today's episode we discuss the importance of igniting the spark in our children and that curiosity should be nurtured.

He argues that knowledge without values can be a dangerous thing and that creativity is an antidote. Pie understands we need the creative arts but we can also be creative thinkers across the curriculum and he is clear that imagination is central to creativity which enables a joyful life.  

KS2 poem created by children from Oakridge Parochial Primary School - with grateful thanks to all who contributed. 

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