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Andria Zafirakou, a teacher at Alperton Community School in Brent, won $1 million when she was crowned the best teacher in the world by the Varkey Foundation.

Andria was born in north-west London to Greek-Cypriot parents and state-educated in Brent and Camden.

She is an art and textiles teacher in Brent on the outskirts of London, one of the world’s most ethnically diverse places. She is passionate about education and changing the lives of young people and underserved communities through creativity.

She has worked her entire teaching career of 14 years at Alperton Community School and was promoted to Deputy Head of Art within a year of her arrival. She is now Associate Deputy Headteacher leading on staff professional development.

Using the prize money awarded by the Global Teacher prize, Andria founded a charity called Artists in Residence (AiR) with an aim to improve arts education in schools.

Andria has also been named in the top ten of The Evening Standard's 1000 Londoners List, a list of the most influential people in London. She is a Culture Leader for the World Economic Forum's as well as a member of their Global Future Leaders Council.

Andria sits on the Advisory board for the Cultural Leaders Alliance.

Steeped in research and yet utterly practical, this has to be the essential text for any staff wanting to know about wellbeing in schools. -- Daniel Sobel ― CEO, Inclusion Expert

.In Building Positive Behaviour Graham Chatterley aims to get educators looking behind what is causing challenging behaviour by breaking down many of the potential causes. The book then offers a scaffold and sequence to build it all back up to meet the individual needs of all pupils. We should never be satisfied with some children falling through the cracks and with the right ethos and culture they won't. The change in this culture starts with staff. By increasing understanding of why challenging behaviour occurs it not only benefits the children but the staff also. Many staff take poor behaviour personally when in reality they had little to do with it. Children develop many survival strategies that often come in the form of a mask. This book will help staff to see behind that mask and hopefully reduce the need for it. With an empathetic approach based on validating children's feelings rather than fixing the behaviour the side effect is calmer classrooms and better learning for all.We have the blocks, let's build them! Instead of dealing with what's in front of us. with a rewards and sanctions based approach which will work for the majority. Let's use a sequential approach that works for all. The Strugglers, the Disruptors and the Disengaged alike. The 'Sequential Approach' offers another way that many educators have been looking for.In Building Positive Behaviour, Graham Chatterley challenges the reactive nature of those traditional systems in favour of a proactive response to behaviour, based on identifying and meeting the needs of the minority of pupils who find school sytems overwhelming. The book is overflowing with pupil examples of where the sequential approach has been used to positive effect , providing the reader with a scaffold, areas to prioritise, a sequence to follow and resources to help implement. This book is suitable for any educators who want a culture of prevention rather than cure.Graham is open and honest about his initial struggles trying to find his way in teaching and how that turned around, who were his inspirations and examples of people/schools who are doing it well right now.Anybody who wants to learn more about what is behind behaviour, looking for a blueprint of how to create a positive learning culture for all or anyone who is curious about their being another way, then this is the book for you.ReviewsThis is a brilliant, honest, brave, well-informed and eminently practical book. Graham has drawn from his wealth of experience in mainstream schools and alternative provision as well as his deep knowledge, to produce a really helpful guide to working with pupils who present what we sometimes call “challenging behaviour” (Graham prefers the term “dysregulated.”)Giving many examples from his own broad experience, Graham, who openly admits he didn’t always get it right himself, explains how and why a sequential approach can work to produce “calmer children, calmer classrooms, more learning.” Every now and then he interrupts himself with a “Pause for Thought” question, inviting us to reflect on our own practice.Particularly timely in 2020, as our children return from lockdown, this is a book for all seasons. I wish it had been around 30 years ago, because I too didn’t always get it right.JOHN COSGROVE, RETIRED HEADTEACHER, AUTHOR

EdTech evidence discussion with: Dan Sandhu, co-founder of the EdTech Evidence Group and CEO of Sparx - @DanSandhu - [email protected]  Murray Morrison, co-founder of the EdTech Evidence Group and CEO of Tassomai - @Tassomai - [email protected]  Details for EdTech Evidence Group - https://www.edtechevidence.com/  

Just like us  The charity for LGBT+ young people – we work directly with schools and colleges to make education more inclusive through school talks, our Pride Groups programme and School Diversity Week.  Chief Exec Dominic Arnall chats to Phil 

Roma has been in education for 9 years now after a career in Marketing. She started her blog noonetoldmehowtodothis.com Through it, she shares ideas, reviews, discusses Leadership and Professional development and generally hashes out thoughts to help her navigate the world of education. Through the blog she has found an incredible and supportive community on Twitter.

Roma has been championing student voice for the past 5 years and believes that many of the answers to our most pressing questions in education can come through collaboration with students who have learnt the value of collective responsibility

This month's TDT Takeover 

In this week's TDT Takeover edition of the Naylor's Natter podcast, we discuss the importance, impact and future of EdTech for teaching with TDT's Head of Education, Maria Cunningham, TDT Project Officer, Dave Price and Lampton School's Head of English, Richard Iglikowski-Broad.

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Dave McPartlin is the head teacher at Flakefleet Primary School.

He gained notoriety when he and his students blew away judges and reached the finals on Britain's Got Talent in 2019.

Before becoming head of Flakefleet Primary School, he was previously headteacher at St.Peter's CE Primary School in Lancashire.

Dave and his students trail-blazed all the way to the finals, narrowly losing out on the coveted prize to Chelsea pensioner, Colin Thackery.

His school's first performance was a rendition of Queen's hit Don't Stop Me Now.

It brought judge David Walliams to tears, landed them a golden buzzer and an automatic place in the semi-final.

Walliams said: "One of the most joyous things I have ever seen, full of unbridled joy, you’re a great teacher, you’re a great, great teacher."

Join Phil for this uplifting conversation with the wonderful Halil Tamgumus (Mr T). We take in:

Leadership

Growing up 

Back to school 

positives of social media

Phil and High Noon's Vinyl Suite

and we pick Halil's top 3 music choices that define him and his career.

Genuinely, one of the best we've done!