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"It needs to be broken up" - Frank Norris and Julie Grimshaw on the ongoing crisis at Ofsted

TRAILER VIDEO AUDIO SHOW NOTES Frank Norris is a former headteacher and HMI (His Majesty’s Inspector) with decades of experience leading...

Derry Hannam on becoming a democratic teacher in a state school

TRAILER: AUDIO: VIDEO: SHOW NOTES: An astonishing conversation with Derry Hannam, a fascinating thinker and writer and practitioner of...

Metacognition will set you free

Here's a thought experiment. Close your eyes and try to not think of anything for the next ten seconds. Go! Whatever you noticed during...

David Phillips: “It has become a monster” [Heads talking about Ofsted #2]

TRAILER VIDEO AUDIO SHOW NOTES This is the second in a series of episodes featuring headteachers and former heads talking about Ofsted....

Martin Robinson on curriculum, community and the importance of anarchy

AUDIO SHOW NOTES Martin Robinson is an educationalist, author, writer, consultant, orator and liberal artist. He worked in East London...

Rebecca Leek: Straitjackets, ethics and inspectors' eyebrows [Heads talking about Ofsted #1]

VIDEO AUDIO SHOW NOTES This is the first in a series of interviews with headteachers and former heads talking about Ofsted (the Office...

Melissa Benn on our divided education system

VIDEO: AUDIO: INTRO: Melissa Benn comes from a long line of outspoken campaigners and prominent Parliamentarians. She was educated at...

Martin Robinson on creativity, character education - and why traditionalists are the true radicals

CLIP: FULL EPISODE: OVERVIEW: Martin Robinson is an educationalist, author, writer, consultant, orator and liberal artist. He worked in...

Fiona Cuthbertson on lobbying for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) reform

CLIP: FULL EPISODE: Fiona Cuthbertson is a political lobbyist who has been involved in politics for many years. A former councillor and...

Dr Chris Bagley on the 3 invisible "shadow cultures" that shaped our education system

VIDEO: AUDIO: BLURB: Dr Chris Bagley is a man with a dazzling variety of hats. He is psychologist, writer and musician with an interest...

Jaz Ampaw-Farr on the power of 'withness'

Happy new year and welcome to the first podcast release of 2023. If you've come across Jaz Ampaw-Farr before, you'll know that you are in...

How can we decouple education policy from the electoral cycle?

Yesterday I was speaking with a lobbyist about Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). A green paper was published earlier...

How to change the world

This post includes: A TEDx talk The backstory An illustrated transcript (including the really good bit I forgot to say due to nerves) And...

David Price OBE on how to unleash the untold potential of people-powered innovation

2-MINUTE TRAILER: FULL VIDEO: FULL AUDIO - or wherever you get your podcasts: In this episode - the first to be released both as audio...

Sophie Christophy on Consent-Based Education

Sophie Christophy is a culture transformer, feminist, unschooling parent and activist. She works on deconstructing patriarchy, from...

Ollie Lovell on visiting Michaela, XP School and the Self-Managed Learning College

Ollie Lovell is a teacher and podcaster based in Melbourne, Australia, and the host of the Education Research Reading Room (ERRR)...

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The GCSE is misaligned with our understanding of adolescent brain development

Welcome to the first episode of Season 3 of the Rethinking Education podcast! This week we're speaking with Professor Sarah-Jayne...

Let's get multidimensional: A glossary of 225 learning terms

In my last post, I argued that, for educators at least, the word ‘learning’ is so vague as to be meaningless except as an umbrella term...

The word 'learning' is so vague as to be meaningless. Let's get multidimensional!

An abridged version of this article was published as a guest post for the Learning Scientists. Definitions are important. Everybody knows...

Thanks to the steely determination of our speakers and delegates, the Rethinking Education conferenc

Well. What a week that was! On Thursday last week, the RMT announced that there will be a train strike on Sept 17th – the day of the...