UK Educators Community Podcast with Syd.

UK Educators Community Podcast with Syd.

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  • S02E13 A Day in the Life of Syd

    S02E13 A Day in the Life of Syd


    Welcome to Season 2 of the UK Educators Community Podcast, where you'll get a sneak peek into Educator's diaries, as Syd asks her guests to run through one of their typical days.   This is the final episode of this season, and due to popular demand, Syd will be sharing details of one of her days. 

    Just some of the points raised during this season finale are:

    • Syd is PASSIONATE about disrupting and improving the current education system.  She knows many other educators share her thoughts, and identifies that we need to collaborate and pull in the same direction, to cause impact through a movement and create change together.

  • Syd talks about the importance of flexibility.  Before the pandemic, her business was all face to face.   As with many businesses at the time, it ground to a halt overnight.  Her flexibility allowed her to adapt, and create an online model which works brilliantly.

  • When you work for yourself, you don't need to be bound by typical working hours.  Syd often works into the wee small hours, because she can be productive and effective at that time.  It's important to identify what working practices work best for you, and embrace them.


    • 💻 For full show notes and more details about this and other episodes, please check here: https://ukeducators.com/podcasts/

    🤼To join in the conversation with other educators, here's the Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukeducators

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    More about Syd.

    Syd is on a mission to disrupt the Education sector by empowering Education Businesses to think differently, maximising their impact and enabling them to continue doing what they do best – being an awesome Educator!

    She recognises there are many great educators out there. UK Educators Community was born to support and empower other amazing teachers and educators to scale their business, to think more about their business development and to understand how small changes in their approaches can give different results.


    Serial Entrepreneur and Outstanding Woman in STEM Award Winner, Syd knows a thing or two about the Education sector. Through her business, Femtinos, Syd has worked with over 12,000 children over the last decade.  Her vision is to take her skills global, working with remote schools and training staff to instill growth mindset strategies. During lockdown, Syd has grown an online school in 6 months from 0 to 18 staff, which has delivered nearly 2000 online classes within that timeframe

    26 min
  • S02E12 A Day in the Life of A Primary Maths & English Specialist with Siobhan Simpson

    S02E12 A Day in the Life of A Primary Maths & English Specialist with Siobhan Simpson


    Welcome to Season 2 of the UK Educators Community Podcast, where you'll get a sneak peek into Educator's diaries, as Syd asks her guests to run through one of their typical days.  On this episode, you'll meet Siobhan Simpson, who helps professional Mums raise their child's confidence in maths through online learning through her company, Primrose Tuition

    You can see more about Siobhan and her tuition business here: https://www.primrosetuition.co.uk/

    The conversation on today's episode covers many points, including:

    • Siobhan LOVES working for herself as a tutor.  When she worked in a traditional schooling environment, her "to do" list would keep her awake at night! She always felt overstretched in school, but now she's got time to offer her students much more quality support.

  • Siobhan is currently tutoring one to one, but has recently tested out a group teaching programme in KS2 Maths, which was successful.  She'll be filtering this model into her business over time.

  • Siobhan's advice to people starting in their education business, is to "keep going and be consistent", as there's always another client "just around the corner".  Consistency is also absolutely key in social media marketing.  It CAN be tough, but a positive mindset will get you through the testing times.


    • 💻 For full show notes and more details about this and other episodes, please check here: https://ukeducators.com/podcasts/

    🤼To join in the conversation with other educators, here's the Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukeducators

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    More about Syd.

    Syd is on a mission to disrupt the Education sector by empowering Education Businesses to think differently, maximising their impact and enabling them to continue doing what they do best – being an awesome Educator!

    She recognises there are many great educators out there. UK Educators Community was born to support and empower other amazing teachers and educators to scale their business, to think more about their business development and to understand how small changes in their approaches can give different results.


    Serial Entrepreneur and Outstanding Woman in STEM Award Winner, Syd knows a thing or two about the Education sector. Through her business, Femtinos, Syd has worked with over 12,000 children over the last decade.  Her vision is to take her skills global, working with remote schools and training staff to instill growth mindset strategies. During lockdown, Syd has grown an online school in 6 months from 0 to 18 staff, which has delivered nearly 2000 online classes within that timeframe

    36 min
  • S02E11 A Day in the Life of An Art and Design Portfolio Educator with Julie Read

    S02E11 A Day in the Life of An Art and Design Portfolio Educator with Julie Read.


    Welcome to Season 2 of the UK Educators Community Podcast, where you'll get a sneak peek into Educator's diaries, as Syd asks her guests to run through one of their typical days.  On this episode, you'll meet Julie Read, who's an Art Tutor from Edinburgh.

    Julie works with art students to expand and develop their portfolios, and helps them get into their top university choice.  Check out her company "Portfolio Oomph" here: https://www.portfolio-oomph.com/

    • Julie's used to working in colleges, with her day starting at 9am and finishing at 4pm.  Since starting her tutoring business, she's had a big shift in mindset.  Initially she used to stick to those rigid times, but now allows herself more flexibility in hours, and loves it.

  • Julie encourages risk taking in art, when the piece isn't being assessed for exams.  Risks allow creativity to grow and can  lead to amazing things.  If a risk doesn't pay off, she encourages the student to reflect and develop.

  • Julie encourages her students to use many different tools to express their artistic ideas in the most relevant way.  The finished piece may be a painting, a photograph, a video, just about anything!


    • 💻 For full show notes and more details about this and other episodes, please check here: https://ukeducators.com/podcasts/

    🤼To join in the conversation with other educators, here's the Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukeducators

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    More about Syd.

    Syd is on a mission to disrupt the Education sector by empowering Education Businesses to think differently, maximising their impact and enabling them to continue doing what they do best – being an awesome Educator!

    She recognises there are many great educators out there. UK Educators Community was born to support and empower other amazing teachers and educators to scale their business, to think more about their business development and to understand how small changes in their approaches can give different results.


    Serial Entrepreneur and Outstanding Woman in STEM Award Winner, Syd knows a thing or two about the Education sector. Through her business, Femtinos, Syd has worked with over 12,000 children over the last decade.  Her vision is to take her skills global, working with remote schools and training staff to instill growth mindset strategies. During lockdown, Syd has grown an online school in 6 months from 0 to 18 staff, which has delivered nearly 2000 online classes within that timeframe

    38 min
  • S02E10 A Day in the Life of A Language Tutor with Chloe-Maired Donnelly

    S02E10 A Day in the Life of A Language Tutor with Chloe-Maired Donnelly.


    Welcome to Season 2 of the UK Educators Community Podcast, where you'll get a sneak peek into Educator's diaries, as Syd asks her guests to run through one of their typical days.  On this episode, you'll meet Chloe-Maired Donnelly; a young tutor who's currently studying at University, and when Covid hit, she started her "dream business", CMD Tutoring.

    Chloe has ADHD, and when she was at school, the only subjects that held her interest were languages.  This is a great chat, where you'll hear Chloe talk about how she manages her ADHD both personally and whilst teaching her students.  Syd also has somewhat of a revelation during the conversation.  There are plenty of key points, including:

    • Regardless of how tired she's feeling because of a lack of quality sleep, Chloe is ALWAYS energetic and positive with her students: Energy breeds energy!

  • Computer games aren't always bad for you! Chloe was driven by Assassin's Creed to start her languages journey, go to Uni, and start her tutoring business! 🎮

  • Tutors don't need to know EVERYTHING! Students questions highlight knowledge gaps, which gives the opportunity to go back and revise that content.  Part of being a teacher is ALWAYS being a learner.


    • 👩‍🏫 To find out more about Chloe's business, CMD Tutoring:  https://www.cmdtutoring.co.uk/

    💻 For full show notes and more details about this and other episodes, please check here: https://ukeducators.com/podcasts/

    🤼To join in the conversation with other educators, here's the Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukeducators

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    More about Syd.

    Syd is on a mission to disrupt the Education sector by empowering Education Businesses to think differently, maximising their impact and enabling them to continue doing what they do best – being an awesome Educator!

    She recognises there are many great educators out there. UK Educators Community was born to support and empower other amazing teachers and educators to scale their business, to think more about their business development and to understand how small changes in their approaches can give different results.


    Serial Entrepreneur and Outstanding Woman in STEM Award Winner, Syd knows a thing or two about the Education sector. Through her business, Femtinos, Syd has worked with over 12,000 children over the last decade.  Her vision is to take her skills global, working with remote schools and training staff to instill growth mindset strategies. During lockdown, Syd has grown an online school in 6 months from 0 to 18 staff, which has delivered nearly 2000 online classes within that timeframe.

    33 min
  • S02E09 A Day in the Life of An English Tutor with Gemma Bull

    S02E09 A  Day in the Life of An English Tutor with Gemma Bull.


    Welcome to Season 2 of the UK Educators Community Podcast, where you'll get a sneak peek into Educator's diaries, as Syd asks her guests to run through one of their typical days.  On this episode, you'll meet Gemma Bull and hear about her business, Lion Education.

    Gemma supports her students to be confident, assertive and resilient, whilst making rapid academic progress.  She promises that with her calm and collaborative approach her students will "learn to ROAR" (Like Katy Perry, not a scary Lion having caught a Zebra!)

    This chat is full of shiny take away points, here's just a handful:

    • The private education model aligns with Gemma's values much closer than traditional schooling.  She's been told by Headteachers of the past to ignore students who need emotional support, and concentrate her effort on pushing the ones who are doing well academically.
      
  • Whether you're a teacher or tutor in any capacity, it's soooo important to be passionate about your subject.  The passion is what inspires students, or even co-workers

  • Taking constructive criticism positively is really important, and your action as a result will make you better.


    • 🦁 To find out more about Gemma, and Lion Education:  https://lion-education.co.uk/

    💻 For full show notes and more details about this and other episodes, please check here: https://ukeducators.com/podcasts/

    🤼To join in the conversation with other educators, here's the Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukeducators

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    More about Syd.

    Syd is on a mission to disrupt the Education sector by empowering Education Businesses to think differently, maximising their impact and enabling them to continue doing what they do best – being an awesome Educator!

    She recognises there are many great educators out there. UK Educators Community was born to support and empower other amazing teachers and educators to scale their business, to think more about their business development and to understand how small changes in their approaches can give different results.


    Serial Entrepreneur and Outstanding Woman in STEM Award Winner, Syd knows a thing or two about the Education sector. Through her business, Femtinos, Syd has worked with over 12,000 children over the last decade.  Her vision is to take her skills global, working with remote schools and training staff to instill growth mindset strategies. During lockdown, Syd has grown an online school in 6 months from 0 to 18 staff, which has delivered nearly 2000 online classes within that timeframe.

    41 min
  • S02E08 A day in the life of A Home Ed English & History Tutor with Yvonne Mason

    S02E08 A day in the life of A Home Ed English & History Tutor with Yvonne Mason.


    Welcome to Season 2 of the UK Educators Community Podcast, where you'll get a sneak peek into Educator's diaries, as Syd asks her guests to run through one of their typical days.  On this episode, you'll meet the amazing Yvonne Mason.

    Yvonne was ahead of the curve, and has been offering online tutorial for the past 15 years!  She offered both online and face to face, until a move to North Wales in 2016, meant it made practical sense to go totally online.  

    This is a really interesting chat between two well respected educators, with many take away points, including:

    • When families are picking a Home Ed Tutor, they'll always go for one they can TRUST, which grows quickly through referrals from other home ed families. 

  • Yvonne talks about the importance of home educated kids having time to socialise.  She gives her group classes time to chat before the lesson begins, when her camera and mic are turned off. 

  • Teaching in subjects you're passionate about really helps keep material fresh.  Yvonne's a historian, and currently running courses in Medieval and Tudor history, and as well as being a MASSIVE "Tolkien geek", she's teaching her first summer school on his works.

  • Collaboration is "exciting".  Yvonne often works with other Educators and always learns and builds her skillset during these times, and sometimes she'll have access to new resources she may otherwise not have access to.


    • To find out more about Yvonne's tutoring business, visit: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057522306678

    For full show notes and more details about this and other episodes, please check here: https://ukeducators.com/podcasts/

    💻 To join in the conversation with other educators, here's the Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukeducators

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    More about Syd.

    Syd is on a mission to disrupt the Education sector by empowering Education Businesses to think differently, maximising their impact and enabling them to continue doing what they do best – being an awesome Educator!

    She recognises there are many great educators out there. UK Educators Community was born to support and empower other amazing teachers and educators to scale their business, to think more about their business development and to understand how small changes in their approaches can give different results.


    Serial Entrepreneur and Outstanding Woman in STEM Award Winner, Syd knows a thing or two about the Education sector. Through her business, Femtinos, Syd has worked with over 12,000 children over the last decade.  Her vision is to take her skills global, working with remote schools and training staff to instill growth mindset strategies. During lockdown, Syd has grown an online school in 6 months from 0 to 18 staff, which has delivered nearly 2000 online classes within that timeframe.

    31 min
  • S02E07 A day in the life of A Maths & Finance Educator with Helen Westwood

    S02E07 A day in the life of A Maths & Finance Educator with Helen Westwood.


    Welcome to Season 2 of the UK Educators Community Podcast, where you'll get a sneak peek into Educator's diaries, as Syd asks her guests to run through one of their typical days.  On this episode, you'll meet Helen Westwood.

    After completing her degree, Helen worked in corporate as a Tax Consultant.  After a couple of years, (and a meeting with one of her old teachers), Helen was offered a job on the graduate teacher programme at the school she once studied at.   She's now spent several years leading finance courses for post-16 year olds.

    As well as her work with the school, Helen runs her own private tutoring in Maths and Finance.  She's VERY BUSY and booked up until 2025!!

    This is an engaging chat, with many key points, including:

    • Some consider online booking tools, such as Calendly to be a little impersonal.  When used well, and at the end of the process they are excellent.  You have already built rapport with the client and simply send them a link, where they can book a formal appointment.

  • Time management is essential when you have other commitments.  Helen works in large "chunks" of time, so she's always fully present when with family, or students (even if it IS on a Friday night at 8pm!)

  • Helen's soon to be offering very early tutoring sessions.  Some families will take their children to swimming lessons, horse riding lessons, etc before school, so early morning pre-school run lessons are soon to be trialled.   

  • As mentioned, Helen's booked up until 2025.  Every few months, she checks in with her advance bookings to ensure they're still interested.

    • To find out more about Helen's tutoring business, visit: https://helenwestwoodmaths.com/


    For full show notes and more details about this and other episodes, please check here: https://ukeducators.com/podcasts/

    To join in the conversation with other educators, here's the Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukeducators

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    More about Syd.

    Syd is on a mission to disrupt the Education sector by empowering Education Businesses to think differently, maximising their impact and enabling them to continue doing what they do best – being an awesome Educator!

    She recognises there are many great educators out there. UK Educators Community was born to support and empower other amazing teachers and educators to scale their business, to think more about their business development and to understand how small changes in their approaches can give different results.


    Serial Entrepreneur and Outstanding Woman in STEM Award Winner, Syd knows a thing or two about the Education sector. Through her business, Femtinos, Syd has worked with over 12,000 children over the last decade.  Her vision is to take her skills global, working with remote schools and training staff to instill growth mindset strategies. During lockdown, Syd has grown an online school in 6 months from 0 to 18 staff, which has delivered nearly 2000 online classes within that timeframe.

    37 min
  • S02E06 A day in the life of a Trader turned Tutor with Julia Brand

    S02E06 A day in the life of a Trader turned Tutor with Julia Brand


    Welcome to Season 2 of the UK Educators Community Podcast, where you'll get a sneak peek into Educator's diaries, as Syd asks her guests to run through one of their typical days.  On this episode, you'll meet Julia Brand.

    Julia came to teaching, after becoming disillusioned with a  high powered career in the city as a stocks trader.  She spend almost 10 years working in Primary schools, and doing some private tutoring on the side, before phasing out traditional schooling  and concentrating on her tutoring business full time.  

    It's a great chat, with many takeaway points, including:

    • Your career needs to align with your personal values.  The more mature you become, the clearer this is and more important it becomes.

  • The importance to adapt in business can't be underplayed.  For example, any tutoring businesses who didn't go online in 2020 would have had a hard time surviving. Whereas the ones who embraced the change get a chance to thrive.

  • Once you've been tutoring for a long while, preparing for each session isn't always needed.  Often students will speak about their concerns and struggles, and the sessions will go in different directions anyway.  It's all about being flexible with your plans.

    • As well as the above, there was MUCH EXCITEMENT about the upcoming Retreat for Educators in Marrakesh that the UK Educators Community has organised.   To find out more or to join us, head over to : https://ukeducators.com/retreat/



    For full show notes and more details about this and other episodes, please check here: https://ukeducators.com/podcasts/

    To join in the conversation with other educators, here's the Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukeducators

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    More about Syd.

    Syd is on a mission to disrupt the Education sector by empowering Education Businesses to think differently, maximising their impact and enabling them to continue doing what they do best – being an awesome Educator!

    She recognises there are many great educators out there. UK Educators Community was born to support and empower other amazing teachers and educators to scale their business, to think more about their business development and to understand how small changes in their approaches can give different results.


    Serial Entrepreneur and Outstanding Woman in STEM Award Winner, Syd knows a thing or two about the Education sector. Through her business, Femtinos, Syd has worked with over 12,000 children over the last decade.  Her vision is to take her skills global, working with remote schools and training staff to instill growth mindset strategies. During lockdown, Syd has grown an online school in 6 months from 0 to 18 staff, which has delivered nearly 2000 online classes within that timeframe.

    49 min
  • S02E05 A day in the life of An English Teacher with Andrea Gadsbey

    S02E05 A day in the life of An English Teacher with Andrea Gadsbey


    Welcome to Season 2 of the UK Educators Community Podcast, where you'll get a sneak peek into Educator's diaries, as Syd asks her guests to run through one of their typical days.  On this episode, you'll meet Andrea Gadsbey.

    Andrea's a VERY BUSY person!  She's a full time English teacher at a school in Manchester, a single mother, and she recently founded Hope Tuition Clinic: https://www.facebook.com/HPEnglishClinic/

    A lot of things came out of her chat with Syd, including:

    • There is less "joy in schooling" than there used to be, mainly down to the curriculum being very pressurised, with much of the joy of learning being sucked out it.

  • The pandemic has allowed us to take a look at the current system and given us the opportunity to think about how we do education differently and bring it more up to date.

  • Setting up and running you own business is stressful, but because you're in control of all elements it's a different kind of stress, to when you're employed and have no control at all.

    • You can find out more about Hope Tuition Clinic here:  https://www.facebook.com/HPEnglishClinic/


    For full show notes and more details about this and other episodes, please check here: https://ukeducators.com/podcasts/

    To join in the conversation with other educators, here's the Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukeducators

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    More about Syd.

    Syd is on a mission to disrupt the Education sector by empowering Education Businesses to think differently, maximising their impact and enabling them to continue doing what they do best – being an awesome Educator!

    She recognises there are many great educators out there. UK Educators Community was born to support and empower other amazing teachers and educators to scale their business, to think more about their business development and to understand how small changes in their approaches can give different results.


    Serial Entrepreneur and Outstanding Woman in STEM Award Winner, Syd knows a thing or two about the Education sector. Through her business, Femtinos, Syd has worked with over 12,000 children over the last decade.  Her vision is to take her skills global, working with remote schools and training staff to instill growth mindset strategies. During lockdown, Syd has grown an online school in 6 months from 0 to 18 staff, which has delivered nearly 2000 online classes within that timeframe.

    35 min
  • S02E04 A day in the life of A Maths & Science Educator with Gemma Spalding

    S02E04 A day in the life of A Maths & Science Educator with Gemma Spalding


    Welcome to Season 2 of the UK Educators Community Podcast, where you'll get a sneak peek into Educator's diaries, as Syd asks her guests to run through one of their typical days.  On this episode, you'll meet Gemma Spalding

    Gemma launched "Spalding's School of Science" in June 2019.  Unlike many of the educators Syd's spoken to on these podcasts, Gemma hasn't ever worked in a traditional schooling environment.  You'll hear a great conversation between two educators, who's values really align, but their approaches and businesses are quite different.  Here are some useful messages that came out of today's chat:

    • A focus on your own well-being is of massive importance to your business.  Always ensure you have "me time" in every day, (even if it's just an hour of book reading before bed). 

  • The UK science curriculum is pretty dull, more interesting subjects and approaches need to be taken to really inspire learning.

  • In order to scale up your business, it's so important to delegate work to trusted team members and spend time on growth plans, marketing and sales.

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    Find out more about Gemma's business here: https://spaldingschoolofscience.com/about-gemma-spalding-private-tuition/

    For full show notes and more details about this and other episodes, please check here: https://ukeducators.com/podcasts/

    To join in the conversation with other educators, here's the Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukeducators

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    More about Syd.

    Syd is on a mission to disrupt the Education sector by empowering Education Businesses to think differently, maximising their impact and enabling them to continue doing what they do best – being an awesome Educator!

    She recognises there are many great educators out there. UK Educators Community was born to support and empower other amazing teachers and educators to scale their business, to think more about their business development and to understand how small changes in their approaches can give different results.


    Serial Entrepreneur and Outstanding Woman in STEM Award Winner, Syd knows a thing or two about the Education sector. Through her business, Femtinos, Syd has worked with over 12,000 children over the last decade.  Her vision is to take her skills global, working with remote schools and training staff to instill growth mindset strategies. During lockdown, Syd has grown an online school in 6 months from 0 to 18 staff, which has delivered nearly 2000 online classes within that timeframe.

    33 min

About UK Educators Community Podcast with Syd.

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The UK Educators Community podcast features interviews with Educators and Business Experts. Learn from Educators at different stages of their business as they share specific tips to help, guide and support others looking to do similar. Explore the challenges faced by others. Learn about leadership, delegation, mindset and growth. Access business expert insight – keep pen and paper to hand to write down top tips and points of inspiration!