This week Tim is joined by Jay Allnutt, CEO of Teach First NZ: Ako Mātātupu. Jay started his career as a secondary school teacher and has worked in middle leadership roles in schools serving lower-income communities. He is also an ambassador (alumnus) of Teach First in UK. He joined Teach First NZ: Ako Mātātupu as Director of Strategy and Operations in 2014 after a number of years working with Teach First in London. Jay has founded three charities focused on reducing inequality in education in England and Aotearoa New Zealand, and holds an MSc in the Economics of Education and an MA in Philosophy. In 2017 Jay’s MSc dissertation, the first independent quantitative evaluation of the Teach First programme in the UK, was published in the British Educational Research Journal. He is currently a doctoral student in the school of critical studies at the University of Auckland, and his research focuses on our understanding of inequality around the world, and the purpose of public education. In the podcast Tim and Jay discuss how to establish and test your educational philosophy and the importance of voicing this and reflecting on the relevance of your philosophy.
