Naylor's Natter

‘Empowering Tiny Voices’ with Torio Bono

In this podcast Abby Bayford, Director of Institute at the Academy Transformation Trust, interviews

Toria Bono about Tiny Voice Tuesday Unites: a Twitter community established by Toria to help

educators be heard from around the world. Toria also discusses the importance of growing our

professional learning network; helping people find their voice and her commitment to equity,

inclusion and diversity.

Our TDT section sees Michelle Barker, Communication and Network Lead, talk to Bethan Hindley,

Training Programme Lead, about utilising  lockdown CPD and leadership of CPD.

About Toria

https://www.toriabono.com/

Toria’s hashtags:

#BrewEdFindYourVoice will be a day filled with inspirational presentations and fabulous discussions

that will get you ready for the coming year.

What is it? #BrewEdFindYourVoice

When is it? Saturday 29th August

How do you access it? Click on Toria’s pinned tweet – @toriaclaire – at 9am that day.

We also have Jo Jukes interviewing Kat and Claire on their John Catt book 'Symbiosis'

When the teaching profession places the curriculum at the heart of what it does, transformative change can take place. Curriculum reform is now at the forefront of every school agenda; in spite of this, there is a danger that its message may become lost in translation. When curricular change is poorly implemented, teachers experience a complete detachment from their sense of purpose, autonomy, and capacity to become curriculum designers of the future.

Employing an astute blend of theory and practice, Claire Hill and Kat Howard offer a methodical approach to designing and delivering a curriculum, to ensure that all feel part of a collective curricular journey. At a time when work on the curriculum can be politicised, monetised and overcomplicated, Symbiosis: The Curriculum and the Classroom provides a series of practical strategies for curriculum designers at every level, in order to not only keep and develop the skilled and professional teachers desperately needed in schools, but also to provide a world-class curriculum to students.

Available here:

https://www.johncattbookshop.com/symbiosis-the-curriculum-and-the-classroom

Next week- Stephen Tierney on Educating with purpose 

Richard Gerver has been described as one of the most inspirational leaders of his generation. He is an award-winning speaker, bestselling author and world-renowned thinker.

Richard began his career in education, most notably as headmaster of the failing Grange Primary School. In just two years, he famously transformed the school into one of the most acclaimed learning environments in the world. He was celebrated by UNESCO and the UK Government for its incredible turnaround.

​Richard has since transitioned to the global stage where he uses his trademark humour and natural style to deliver passionate, provocative and authentic speeches. He draws upon the first-hand experiences and unique insights garnered from frontline education to explore the links between great leadership, human potential, change and innovation. His ability to connect experiences across many seemingly different environments helps people to expand their thinking and perception of potential. It is this authenticity and uniqueness which has helped Richard win him global acclaim and invitations to speak on the most recognised stages, including TED, the RSA and BBC radio.

Richard is also a bestselling author. His first book, Creating Tomorrow’s Schools Today (now in its second edition), has become a seminal text around the world for those engaged in the transformation of education. His other books are explorations of human potential, leadership and success. In Change and Simple Thinking, Richard explores the world beyond school, through the eyes of an educator. Both have received critical and public success; both achieving global bestseller status. All his books have been translated into a multitude of languages including Spanish, Chinese and Korean. Richard's latest book, Education: A Manifesto for Change, explores how our school system can be made fit for purpose in our turbulent 21st-century world.

Most importantly, Richard is always humbled to be able to share his lifelong commitment to living, learning and laughing.

Neil Reynolds is the Headteacher at South Shore Academy in Blackpool. He has led the school on an incredible Journey since becoming Headteacher . He is also the First Team manager at FC United of Manchester . He has a UEFA B coaching badge . This conversation is about leadership, inspiring people and working with high performing teams. This interview was recorded in May of 2020. 

This week sees the addition of Nimish Lad to the Naylor’s Natter team. Nimish is Vice Principal for Curriculum and Assessment at Wrenn school in Wellingborough. He is also a teacher of science and enjoys engaging with educational research. Nimish is interviewing Dr Flavia Belham. Flavia is chief scientific officer for Seneca Learn, a social enterprise that provides free online learning resources for students created with the aid of cognitive science. As part of her role, Flavia has attended schools to present of how cognitive science can be applied within the classroom. She has also presented at researchED on why students don’t use effective learning strategies, which is the focus of this podcast.

researchED is an educator-led organisation with the goal of bridging the gap between research and practice.

This accessible and punchy series, overseen by founder Tom Bennett, tackles the most important topics in education, with a range of experienced contributors exploring the latest evidence and research and how it can apply in a variety of classroom settings.

In this edition, Clare Sealy explores how schools can get the most out of a rich curriculum, editing contributions from a wide range of writers, including: Neil Almond; Andrew Percival; Doug Lemov and Emily Badillo; Sonia Thompson; Christine Counsell; Michael Young; Ruth Ashbee; and Aurora Reid.

This week sees the addition of Jo Jukes to the Naylor's Natter team . Jo is the Trust Curriculum Research Lead @TEAL_Trust and @ResearchWolds. Jo is a Teacher of Business and will be contributing interviews regularly to the podcast.

Jo is interviewing Nimish Lad

Nimish is a highly motivated, enthusiastic and experienced senior leader in the education sector. A passionate education leader, Nimish had a high level of experience and expertise gained from nearly a decade in educational leadership roles. Nimish is delighted to now be focusing his energy in leading Curriculum, Sixth form, Data, Reporting and Intervention at a high performing secondary school in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.

As a key member of the senior leadership team, Nimish champions the values of the school in which he works – Working hard, Respecting others, Enjoy learning, Never give up, Nothing is impossible. Instilling these values in the lessons he delivers and the teams he leads, Nimish has ensured that all stakeholders have the information they need to drive the rapid improvement that has taken place over the last few years. During his time on the senior leadership team, the school has moved from an Ofsted grading of a 4, to a Ofsted grade of a 2 within 18 months.

Nimish had driven the school to improve the use of data to plan lessons, and ensure that leaders at all level have access to the information they require to drive rapid progress and transformational change. Over his first two years on the senior leadership team the progress 8 score of the school improved by +0.5 with the percentage of students achieving English and maths at a grade 4 increasing by 22%.

Keen to share his expertise, Nimish has presented for ResearchED, Educating Northants NEDTalks and PiXL in the past, as well as hosting a global teachmeet for Its Learning. He is also completing his NPQH this year, conducting his 2nd placement in a local junior school.

Next week Phil interviews Joe Nutt 

This week Simon Cox is in the presenting chair interviewing my hero , the godfather of podcasting Mr Craig Barton . In the podcast pedagogy, Rachel Ball joins me to have a look at the rise of the education podcasts . We navigate the best podcasts in other genres and signpost you to Rachel's picks.

Next week we have another new podcasting dream team , Nimish Lad and Joanna Jukes who will be interviewing each other.

Aziza Ajak is a Science teacher and a Vice Principal 

 @durham_uni BSc |@imperialcollege MSc |@UCL MA |@teachfirst2014 | NPQSL | Science teacher & Vice Principal @GoresbrookSc @teachfirst trustee

1)Could you start by telling listeners about your career journey to this point including your 10% braver more like 100% braver on your journey to assistant headship ? 

 2) Your March 2018 blog ‘is it as simple as just saying thank you - how to value and develop individuals in resource limited schools . How can slt particularly now genuinely demonstrate valuing staff?  

3) How do we get recruitment and new staff induction right ? What is a Friyay trolley ? 

 4) Could you give listeners a senior leadership perspective on implementing while class feedback 

 5) From a look in the mirror , how do you juggle the competing responsibilities of teaching and learning and behaviour?  

6) From your blog , new young or inexperienced. Could you share the context for your discussion?  

7) Could you tell listeners about  authentic leadership ? 

 8) Why is it important to talk about authentic leadership   

Could you signpost listeners to your blog, website and your crowdcast with Niall Alcock ?

https://www.weareinbeta.community/feed

This week I am joined by Michael Zwaagstra to discuss his John Catt book - A Sage on the Stage

Our discussion

Could you start by giving us a brief history of your career to this point?

 Chapter one-  foolish educational fads is a fantastic read and one which will chime with many of our listeners , Could you outline some of those educational fads and gimmicks and tell us why education fads do teachers and kids no favours ? 

• A big question in chapter 2 raising academic standards- why should schools focus on the essentials and what are the essentials?

 •In chapter 3 you outlined that tests are good for students could you tell us more? 

•Could you tell us why content knowledge is important ? (perhaps taking in the explanation of Lord of the rings from the start of the chapter and how Tolkien showed a tremendous amount of creativity and even more importantly content knowledge in his Lord of the rings trilogy) 

•Why does discovery maths not add up? 

•My favourite chapter of the book is Chapter 7- improving life for teachers and students.  There is some fantastic common-sense advice in this chapter, firstly why is it time to call time on cell phones in school? 

•Will longer school days make students smarter? 

•Does every student deserve a personalised learning experience that matches his or her unique learning style?

 •Are distractions sometimes good for learning?

 •Is it valuable sometimes instead of bringing in a new initiative to simply stop doing things that aren't working as you put it improve teacher working conditions by dumping bad ideas?

 •Are gadgets in classrooms just gimmicks and should technology drive education reform?

  •Could you tell us where listeners could find out more about you and A Sage on the stage? 

 In podcast pedagogy , I am currently reading the rED guide to the curriculum edited by Claire Sealey who will be a guest in a few weeks.