Episodes: 49
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Listener location: United Kingdom
Instagram: 1.3k followers
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Sarah Philp - Education podcast host focused on thoughtful conversations about learning, leadership, inclusion, and the experiences of children, young people, and education communities.
Sheila Ball - Thinking Environments, Attention, Trust, Equality, School Change, And Creating Spaces Of Possibility In Education.
Jenni Donohoo - Collective Efficacy, Teacher Beliefs, Feedback, Trust, Collaborative Inquiry, And Evidence-based School Improvement.
Bruce Adamson - Children’s Rights, The UN Convention On The Rights Of The Child, Pupil Participation, Inclusion, Learning Disabilities, And Rights-based Education.
Simon Botten - School Leadership, Headteacher Wellbeing, Inclusion, Coaching New Heads, Moral Purpose, And The Realities Of Leading Schools.
Elly Chapple - Presence, Empathy, Vulnerability, Neurodiversity And Difference, Adult Practice In Education, And Practical Approaches To Wellbeing.
E43. The Practice of Creating Spaces of Possibility with Sheila Ball
September 29, 2026
Sheila Ball is a doctoral researcher at Leeds Beckett University, where she leads the Flourish programme and her work centres on Nancy Kline's Thinking Environment. Her doctoral work is about cultivating spaces of possibility in education, and in this conversation we unpick what that actually looks like in practice.Together we explore:The role of attention in the Thinking Environment.Why three minutes can be a surprising amount of time.How judgment and pace work against thinking in school...
E42. Belief, Not Behaviour with Jenni Donohoo
September 15, 2026
Six years after our first conversation, Jenni Donohoo and I revisit collective efficacy - a term now used far more widely than it was, and often stretched beyond its original meaning.In this episode, we explore:Why construct integrity matters, and how collective efficacy gets diluted into collaboration, morale or "being on the same page".Bandura's original definition and the four sources through which efficacy is built.Three conditions for testing whether a team's confidence...
E41. UNCRC and Rights as a Powerful Tool with Bruce Adamson
August 31, 2026
Bruce Adamson is a human rights lawyer and CEO of the Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities. He was Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland from 2017 to 2023, where he led work on incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law. In this conversation, we explore what a rights-based approach actually asks of schools and what it risks becoming when it doesn't.In this episode:The origins of the UNCRC and what it means for it to sit i...
The International Classroom · Medium booking difficulty · 100 - 1,000 listeners
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