17 episodes

Devoted to professional development, teacher wellbeing and all things positive in education - The aim is simple: to share the positive voices of teachers and school leaders from around the world. Each podcast covers a different topic, with guests sharing personal stories and their views on what can help. Although based in the UK, the themes of curriculum, assessment, pedagogy, behaviour and pastoral support are universal and can help to promote connected open dialogue with teachers around the world.

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    • 4.8 • 18 Ratings

Devoted to professional development, teacher wellbeing and all things positive in education - The aim is simple: to share the positive voices of teachers and school leaders from around the world. Each podcast covers a different topic, with guests sharing personal stories and their views on what can help. Although based in the UK, the themes of curriculum, assessment, pedagogy, behaviour and pastoral support are universal and can help to promote connected open dialogue with teachers around the world.

    Teaching Poetry, with Leah Crawford

    Teaching Poetry, with Leah Crawford

    In this episode I talk to Leah Crawford, an English in Education consultant, tutor with Let's Think in English and Opening Doors author. She explores how educators can teach poetry and the challenging aspects of pattern-finding, interpreting mood, music and rhythm. Leah also introduces us to the poem 'Sympathy', by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Through this rich and challenging text, pupils can explore different layers of meaning and begin to see how they could use similar linguisti...

    • 44 min
    Support for ECTs #2: authority in the classroom, with Karl Pupe

    Support for ECTs #2: authority in the classroom, with Karl Pupe

    Support for ECTs #2What is the difference between personal and professional authority? How can we approach behaviour management with confidence?Karl Pupé is a qualified classroom teacher with 10 years’ experience across the Primary, Secondary and Further Education sectors. Specialising in Behaviour Management, he worked as a Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEETs) Co-ordinator teaching students with severe Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) difficulties. Karl is also the auth...

    • 34 min
    Support for ECTs #3: resources for outstanding Science, with Tom Holloway

    Support for ECTs #3: resources for outstanding Science, with Tom Holloway

    The third episode of our support for ECTs series - we hear from Tom Holloway from the Primary Science Teaching Trust. He shares a wealth of ideas to inspire and engage pupils in outstanding Science learning. We discuss a range of topics, including teaching the Sustainable Development Goals through Science, Biomimicry and finding the true purpose of Science education for all.

    • 41 min
    Support for ECTs #1: a knowledge-rich curriculum, with Natalie Wexler

    Support for ECTs #1: a knowledge-rich curriculum, with Natalie Wexler

    Support for ECTs - episode 1What is a knowledge-rich curriculum? Why is it so important? In this episode Natalie Wexler shares a wealth of insight into her book 'The Knowledge Gap: the hidden cause of America's broken education system - and how to fix it.' In doing so we learn about the distinct parallels between the US and UK education systems when it comes to overcoming the 'achievement gap' that exists between disadvantaged pupils and their more affluent peers. We al...

    • 45 min
    Opening Doors to Quality Writing, with Bob Cox

    Opening Doors to Quality Writing, with Bob Cox

    In this episode, award-winning author Bob Cox talks about his life, the books that influenced him and the strategies behind his 'Opening Doors' series for teachers. He shares his thoughts on using high quality texts in the classroom, using 'classics' in the curriculum and how we can help all our pupils achieve excellence in an inclusive, inspirational way.Bob also explores the idea that approaching texts and the curriculum with a pioneering spirit can support well-being for both teacher...

    • 51 min
    Reforming RE: creating a worldviews curriculum, with Kate Christopher

    Reforming RE: creating a worldviews curriculum, with Kate Christopher

    In this episode I speak to Kate Christopher, a secondary RE teacher and independent RE advisor. Kate teaches part time in a Secondary school in East London. She also works as an independent RE adviser. Kate’s interests are curriculum design and the capacity of RE, or religion and worldviews, to offer a more textured and critical understanding of the world for 21st Century children and young adults. She is an editor for the Reforming RE blog - https://reformingre.wordpress.com/ @Re...

    • 24 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
18 Ratings

18 Ratings

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A moving story - instructive and engaging discussion i

From the opening words of his discussion with Carl McCarthy, Jay Beilis brings to this narrative of his grandfather, Menahem Mendel Beilis, the very passion and perspective that only a direct relative could convey. But the insights Jay provides into the humanity of this most reluctant historical figure are those that one might expect of a contemporary, not of a descendant who is two lengthy generations removed. No doubt Jay’s intensive research and conversation with people of the “connector” generation helped to deposit him in the very Kiev household where his forebears lived through the 2½-year ordeal of 1911 - 1913. Being a Beilis must have done the rest.
In a fast-moving 45 minutes, Jay connects the listener to Mr. Beilis‘s struggle for exoneration and for his quest of an ever elusive post-trial return to normal life. He clarifies for us the simple underlying purpose that kept his granddad fighting - the conquest of the heinous myth of the Blood Libel and the survival of the Jewish people of 20th century Russia.

A very instructive and engaging discussion indeed!

This is a very powerful story that needs to be told and shared, especially in today's world. And I am profoundly grateful it is being told. I am friends with Jay Beilis, who is the grandson of Mendel Beilis, and had read the book first, which was mainly in the words of Mendel Beilis himself. Very powerful. So is the podcast. I learned much more hearing what Jay Beilis shared in this podcast. Because of the sheer determination and courage Mendel Beilis had, despite horrific suffering endured due to the terrible lies, one cannot but feel tremendous appreciation and admiration for him. From the podcast I also learned more about after his release, and what the family faced afterwards. I am extremely grateful that through his grandson

Jay, this platform came forth as a way to further tell this story which begs to be told. Anyone listening cannot help but be very moved by this amazing man's story.

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Inspiring

This podcast is and instant favourite. It has made me see things in a new perspective.

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Such a nice podcast good job Carl 😊

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