The ALT:learn Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode I discuss the importance of staff wellbeing, self-care and how schools, leaders and individual teachers can put in place strategies and techniques to bring about improvements in wellbeing that lead to improved performance and outcomes.

Kelly Hannaghan is a Mental Health and Wellbeing Consultant and has spent her professional career passionately putting wellbeing at the heart of education, by focussing on enhancing the life and learning experience for people in education. She leads school development processes creating outstanding outcomes and awards for many organisations. She is a trailblazer within the Wellbeing Lead Network for supporting pastoral teams and has been recognised by the DfE, NCB, The Anna Freud Centre and The Education Support Partnership as a lead influencer of mental health and wellbeing in education. Kelly is an active speaker and writer of wellbeing in education and is passionate about creating the conditions under which teachers, pupils and families flourish.

You can reach Kelly on Twitter @MindWorkMatters

In this episode I speak to Sean Harris about the impact of poverty and social mobility in education, the issues with the curriculum in schools that can sometimes widen the disadvantaged gap, together with how leaders and teachers can review their curriculum to check that it is poverty proofed.

Sean Harris is a part-time doctoral student with Teesside University investigating poverty in schools and how we tackle this in classrooms, together with his day job as Trust Improvement Lead at Tees Valley Education Trust in Middlesbrough. Not only that, but he is also a published author in the fields of education, community work and theology. 

You can find Sean on Twitter @SeanHarris_NE

In this episode we discuss simple ways to promote vocabulary development and the importance of this not just for examination success, but for lifelong learning.

In this episode we discuss the importance of lowering the stakes for formative assessment and recall activities, but also why it's important to raise the stakes for summative assessment from time to time.

In this episode I sit down with Nigel Atton to look at how we can make our feedback more effective, whilst at the same time being more efficient with our time. 

In this episode I sit down with Doug Welsh to talk about how he is using mini whiteboards to make his questioning far more effective.

In this episode we discuss how the experiences and challenges from 16 yrs of being a parent to a child with CFC syndrome have enabled Sam to translate these parenting skills into her classroom.

In this episode we discuss not only the importance of establishing classroom routines and high expectations, but more importantly how to sustain them as the term goes on.

In this episode we speak to Ryan Evans from the Aspire2Be learning technology company. Ryan takes us through his new assistive technology project website IncludEdu.

In this episode we give our tips and advice on how use Google Classroom and the Google Suite of Education apps in the best possible ways.