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LincsPodEpisode 8 - w/c Feb 17th 2025🌟 LincsPod – Half Term Special! 🎉🍦🦁This episode is proudly sponsored by https://www.daisymadefarm.co.ukWelcome to LincsPod, the podcast that takes you on an adventure across Lincolnshire! In this Half Term Special, we’re making the most of the school break with a fun-filled day out at some of the county’s best family-friendly spots.📍 Daisy Maid Ice Cream – We kick things off with a delicious treat at this much-loved ice cream parlour! 🍦🌀 Wragby Maze – Can we find our way out, or will we be lost forever? 😆🌿 The Walled Garden at Baumber – A hidden gem of n...
2025-02-1743 min
That Is How The Light Gets In!Personalizable Education, Well being and Agency:As we prepare for ICEE's conference in Gothenburg on March 14th and 15th 2022, this podcast is meant as a pre-think piece. But I hope it might be of wider interest.It explores part of our mission - personalisation -and serves as a challenge to education leaders about the need for a leap as to how we organise our schooling. Now is the time to transfom not just modify. It's about spirit, culture, wellbeing and humanity. Its about our students, about our teachers and about our school leaders. Its about reconnecting with our purpose. It draws on t...
2022-02-2725 min
That Is How The Light Gets In!What If? A poetic conversation with Dr. David Penberg from across he 'pond'What If? We stopped systematically under-developing, silencing and confining children to 12 years of enforced boredom. What if we made schools different, more relevant and humane, abandoned cultures of blame, forbade demonizing, and unleashed like a fire hydrant gushing in July, the immense possibilities in youth and their communities. What if, we stop schoolings blatant disregard for human development and return older adults to the natural company of children, breaking the bondage of ageism and isolation. What ifInstead of breeding competitors and consumers, we grow graciousness and gratitude in children. Suppose we ensure that schools b...
2021-07-3045 min
That Is How The Light Gets In!Second ChancesJamie McGregor from Bright Direction Training and Vicky Owens from the Calm Project work to give second chances to young people who have not prospered in the education system. LIke me, they think that simply getting young people to be valued and to know someone believes in them, can be a pivot point to success. It requires us to put the student at the centre and listen to their hope and aspirations and then find their unique way. If the system has been failing you repeatedly the way forward is not likely to be a standard curriculum sequence and off...
2021-07-2846 min
That Is How The Light Gets In!Changing The Improvement Game Through Authentic CoachingThis conversation is with Kevin Holland who has journeyed with me to help schools use coaching to enhance student agency in schools. But more recently we have explored how we can use this to support staff development and school improvement.People misunderstand coaching, mentoring and training. I worry when they put instructional in front of it. Coaching should never take the agency away from the coachee. It is not advisory. It is questioning and clarifying. It's non- hierachical. It's non judgemental.In the podcast we will explore how Kunskapsskolan has consistently used this approach with...
2021-07-2243 min
That Is How The Light Gets In!Equality and Equity: Its vital we know the differenceIn this episode I explore how we can start to remove the inequity in our schooling and society. It isn't just about schools, but about creating an ecology of equity that drives all services to work together. The proportion of children living in poverty in OECD countries varies enormously from 5% in Nordic Countries to 20% in USA and Israel. UNESCO calculated that even before the pandemic only 3/4 of 15 year old children in middle ranking coutnries are still in school and students only achieve a half of basic proficiency. It's a world problem of wasted talent that is then echoed in a...
2021-07-2022 min
That Is How The Light Gets In!Conversations with Julia from South Africa: A journey of determination.In about 2002 we sponsored four students from the township of Atteridgeville to come an spend 3 months in the UK working alongside students at Rivington and Blackrod High School where I was headteacher. Julia was living in the informal settlement outside the township in an area with hardly any resources such as water or electricity. This podcast is her journey from shanty town to senior executive. A story where she lifted not just herself, but her whole family.It illustrates how just a small investment at the right time, can remove the barrier of poverty and bring with the in...
2021-07-1620 min
That Is How The Light Gets In!Conversation with Neil BhatI met Neil in 2007 when I was working at Saltsjobaden in Sweden, just outside Stockholm. He was in grade 8 (UK year 10). This story is about someone who showed great resilience to be able to reach his dream of becoming an artist. But also someone who turned his natural hyperactivity into a positive. We are all different and its about personalising the journey and remembering there is always a way forward. But it also needs optimism and the ability to make things happen yourself - agency. It may not be everyone's way but that is the thrill you sometimes get fr...
2021-07-1516 min
That Is How The Light Gets In!Conversations with Axel BaatheThis is the first of three conversations with students I have known who are now pursuing their own exciting futures. They remain an inspiration to me. The first if with Axel and I think the podcast says it all. But here is someone who was enabled to take charge of theri owwn learning and accelerate his path through to his now amazing career. And still remains one of the most humble people I know full of awe and wonder..
2021-07-1431 min
Informal Observations with Skyrocket EducationEpisode 9: Wisdom From The Other Side of the PondIn Episode 9, Antonio and Michael talk innovation in schools, education trends across the globe, and Royal Family Drama with life-long educator and International Man of Mystery, John Baumber.
2021-03-1957 min