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Season 3 Episode 7
Matt Burnage is one of the founding senior leaders of Ark Soane Academy, History teacher, and assistant principal leading on curriculum and assessmen…
1 year, 11 months ago
My Visit to Michaela!
Season 3 Episode 6
Matt debriefs Femi on his visit to The Michaela Community School. They discuss teaching and learning, students, staff, family lunch and yard time, c…
1 year, 11 months ago
Barry Smith! Part 2
Season 3 Episode 5
Join Matt and Femi for the second part of their interview with Barry, as they talk about his leadership style, teaching, developing teachers, SLT and…
1 year, 11 months ago
Barry Smith! Part 1
Season 3 Episode 4
Join Matt and Femi as they talk to Barry Smith about his experience of taking over and turning around a failing school.
Barry Smith was a founding Dep…
2 years ago
Coaching!
Season 3 Episode 3
In this episode Femi and Matt discuss what they've learnt and are discovering about coaching: how powerful it is, and how it's harder to do really we…
2 years ago
Pritesh Raichura: Academic Success, Character and Culture
Season 3 Episode 2
Pritesh is a science teacher, head of science and assistant head in charge of teaching and learning at Ark Soane Academy. Known as the best science …
2 years ago
3 Ways I Would Improve My Teaching
Season 3 Episode 1
In this episode Matt talks to Femi about the things he has learnt from his visits to some of the highest-performing schools in the country and reflec…
2 years ago
Season 3 Announcement!
Season 2 Episode 56
A short announcement from me to say that we have decided that the last published episode will be the final episode in Season 2, an announcement which…
2 years, 1 month ago
Changes are afoot!
Season 2 Episode 55
Today Femi and Matt discuss their career changes, both recent (in Matt's case) and forthcoming (in Femi's) and how they are thinking about teaching a…
2 years, 2 months ago
Late To Lessons
Season 2 Episode 54
The discussion today was prompted by a listener question about students being late to lessons, so Matt and Femi each give their take on that. They d…
2 years, 2 months ago