 Bruce Robertson is the Rector of Berwickshire High School in the Scottish Borders. Bruce is the author of the brilliant ‘The Teaching Delusion:why teaching in our schools isn't good enough (and how we can make it better)’. ‘The Teaching Delusion 2: Teaching Strikes Back’ and ‘The Teaching Delusion 3: Power Up Your Pedagogy’. You can get the trilogy now from John Catt Educational. Want to support the ongoing work of the podcast: buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie 

Becoming Educated

Teaching Strikes Back with Bruce Robertson

 Zoe Enser was a classroom English teacher for over 20 years as well as head of department and school leader in charge of improving teaching and learning. She is now lead English specialist advisor for Kent with The Education People. Mark Enser has been a geography teacher for the best part of two decades as well as a head of department and research lead. He is the author of Making Every Geography Lesson Count and Teach Like Nobody’s Watching and is a TES columnist.  Their latest book 'The CPD Curriculum' is out now. Want to support the podcast? buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie 

The CPD Curriculum with Mark & Zoe Enser

 Kate Jones is currently Head of History at The British School Al Khubairat (BSAK) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates but will soon be returning to UK shores to take up a post at Innerdrive as Teaching & Learning Lead. Author of Love To Teach: Research and Resources for Every Classroom and Retrieval Practice: Research and resources for Every Classroom, Retrieval Practice 2: Implementing, Embedding and Reflecting and Retrieval Practice: Resource Guide. Kate's most recent book is Wiliam & Leahy’s Five Formative Assessment Strategies in Action. Want to support the podcast? why not Buy Me a Coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie 

Five Formative Assessment Strategies in Action with Kate Jones

Joshua Vallance is the National Lead of History for Oasis Academies and leads on Curriculum at Oasis Academy Shirley Park. https://mrvallanceteach.wordpress.com/blog/

Thinking About Curriculum with Josh Vallance

Dan Edwards is a principal of a large primary school. Prior to this Dan taught in a secondary school teaching a full timetable of GCSE and A-Levels. Dan has held leadership roles in both primary and secondary sectors and has also spent considerable time working in various education units in adolescent residential social care. Dan also had a brief sojourn teaching post-graduates as a visiting lecturer at universities. Dan is a regular columnist for Teach Primary, The Headteacher magazine and SSAT. Dan hosts a regular education forum on twitter called #SaturdayEdChat and is a host on Teachers Talk Radio.

Make Education Irresistible with Dan Edwards

Bradley Busch is a chartered psychologist. With extensive experience working in schools, he is a leading expert at helping schools utilise psychological research. Outside of education, Bradley works with elite athletes including professional footballers and Team GB.    Edward Watson is a graduate of Oxford University who served seven years in the Army. After receiving an MBA at The London Business school, he worked as a strategic management consultant for Marakon Associates before running businesses in the computer games market.    They are co-authors of The Science of Learning:99 studies that every teacher needs to know.

The Science of Learning with Bradley Busch & Edward Watson

Tamsin Bellaby is a Lincolnshire based secondary teacher of Art Photography and recently Business Studies. Tamsin is obsessed with the power of transformative culture within schools. Until January she was the HoY11 and led on inclusion. Tamsin has recently started at a new school where she leads Pupil Premium and drives KS4 and KS5 achievement.

Knowledge Fuels Creativity with Tamsin Bellaby

Samuel Elliott has been a classroom teacher since 2016. Having grown up, lived in and taught in deprived areas, Samuel possesses key insights into misbehaviour that many teachers lack. These experiences informed his approaches in his trainee and NQT years, which, combined with his research into behaviour psychology, have since given rise to a pedagogy that borrows from both traditional and progressive philosophies.

Teaching Is My Sport with Samuel Elliott

Anne Glennie is a literacy consultant and trainer, author of Reflective Reading and owner of The Learning Zoo. To date, she has trained over 10,000 teachers in all aspects of literacy and assessment in Scotland. Anne has a particular interest in the teaching of reading through synthetic phonics, she sits on the Reading Reform Foundation committee and is also a founding committee member of IFERI - the International Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction. She is passionate about reading for pleasure and is an indie publisher of children’s and YA fiction at Cranachan - who were recently highly commended in The British Book Awards Small Press of the Year 2021.

Teach Every Child to Read with Anne Glennie

Haili Hughes is an English teacher and a former head of department and senior leader who has mentored new teachers and ITT students for over ten years. A former journalist Haili has been teaching for the best part of 15 years and has enjoyed developing teachers at many stages of their career. Haili writes regularly for TES and other education publications and she is the author of Preserving Positivity and Mentoring in Schools.

Mentoring in Schools with Haili Hughes

Jon Tait is the Director of School Improvement and Deputy CEO at Arete Learning Trust in North Yorkshire. Jon started teaching in 2001 as a qualified PE teacher and more recently has taught Computer Science. Jon has been a senior leader for 13 of his 19 years in teaching. Jon is the author of five books, 100 ideas for engaging learners, Bloomsbury CPD Library: Senior Leadership, Succeeding as a Head of Year, Teaching Rebooted & Stepping Into Senior Leadership

Stepping Into Senior Leadership with Jon Tait

Barry Smith is a founding senior leader of Michaela Community School, former Headteacher of Great Yarmouth Charter Academy and Regional Director of Community Schools Trust in London. Barry and I discuss how to improve teaching and pupil buy in, what really good behaviour looks like, how to get staff buy in and how to build a culture of genuine mutual respect. Barry also shares his aim to have the 'most relaxed school in the country'.

Transforming School Culture with Barry Smith

Sarah Cottingham is Associate Dean of Learning Design at Ambition Institute and is studying for a MA in Educational Neuroscience. Kathryn Morgan is Expert Adviser at the Teacher Development Programme, Research Associate at the University of Gloucester and is studying for a MA in Education Leadership. We discuss Deliberate Practice beginning with what it is and why we need it in education. We explore if it is all about changing teacher habits, the difference between purposeful practice and deliberate practice and its role in Instructional Coaching. Both Kathryn & Sarah also offer up a reading list for listeners to tuck into after listening to the podcast.

Deliberate Practice with Sarah Cottingham & Kathryn Morgan

Mark Jesnick is the Assistant Principal for Teaching and Learning at Ark John Keats Academy in Enfield. Mark blogs at https://markmywords1989.wordpress.com/ and you can find him on twitter @JesnickMark.

Returning to the Classroom with Mark Jesnick

Louis Everett is an Assistant Headteacher for Teaching & Learning at the West London Free School. Louis is a History Teacher, former Head of History and Head of Year. Louis completed a Master in Education at the University of Cambridge and during that time has a Research Lead & Whole School teaching & Learning Coach. Louis joined the West London Free School in 2016 as Head of History and oversaw a drastic improvement in results across GCSE & A-Level, created the WLFS History Teaching Conference and was part of the Department for Education Curriculum Project implementing our Key Stage Three curriculum into 7 partner schools around the country.

Improving Whole School Teaching & Learning with Louis Everett

The mission of Becoming Educated is threefold: - to inform, giving teachers the robust academic basis for really meaningfully interrogating practice. - to challenge accepted thinking, dangerous assumptions and the “dead wood” in tired professional dialogue. - and ultimately to inspire and allow passionate professionals to trust in themselves and teach with joy.

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