Making it stick: digital solutions for the classroom

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Welcome to ‘Making It Stick’, the podcast by GLUU where you hear many voices talking the same talk - Digital solutions for your classroom. In this series, you’ll hear from teachers and senior leaders on how EdTech has improved standards, reduced workload and generally just worked! Sounds like something you would like to hear about? Stick around.

Episodes

  1. 09/06/2022

    'Mental health and wellbeing’ - the real core curriculum

    In this episode, Tara Jones catches up with Matt Bawler (http://linkedin.com/in/matt-bawler-5a1a001b5), the Early Years Development Lead for a school in South London, teaching full time across Reception and Nursery. You’ll hear Matt’s passion for developing strong foundations in wellbeing, growth mindset and positive mental health for all young children.

    21 min

  2. 05/05/2022

    EdTech 'gave me my weekends back'

    In this episode, we interview two teachers at the top of the ‘digital teaching’ game. Firstly, Andrea Welter (@FacetedLeader) is the assistant headteacher at Pheasey Park Farm Primary (@PheaseySchool), a SMART exemplary school and training centre. She gives some priceless advice for those looking to get started with EdTech. After that, we hear from Liam Wright-McNeil. Liam is the digital lead at Eaton Primary School (@EatonPrimary), a Department for Education transformation case study school. He explains what his school are doing to embed digital learning in their curriculum, and the benefits and challenges this has for teacher workload.

    40 min

  3. 04/04/2022

    Ofsted - Eliminate the fear and showcase your excellence

    In this second episode we hear from four members of the GLUU community who are making digital solutions stick throughout recent Ofsted inspections. We hear from Matt Wynne, the Principal of Holyhead Primary Academy (@ShirelandCA). He pulls back the curtain on his school’s January 2022 Ofsted and tells us what to expect. We will also hear from Corinna Travis, assistant head teacher at Abbey Gate College (@AbbeyGateColl), who takes us on her school’s curriculum overhaul journey. The returning Qahir Abdulla Damani (@ShirelandTP) explains the importance of wellbeing in a successful curriculum and finally, Lorraine Skellon, head of school at Eaton Primary School (@EatonPrimary) provides us with some easy-to-implement tips to aid staff wellbeing.

    28 min

  4. 03/03/2022

    The digital classroom and you – worth the effort?

    Welcome to Making It Stick: digital solutions for the classroom. In this first episode we hear from three members of the GLUU community who are making digital solutions stick in their classroom. You'll hear from Ola Brorson (@OBrorson), Louise O'Gorman and Qahir Abdulla Damani (@ShirelandTP) about how their particular types of curricula are raising standards and easing their workload!

    33 min
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Welcome to ‘Making It Stick’, the podcast by GLUU where you hear many voices talking the same talk - Digital solutions for your classroom. In this series, you’ll hear from teachers and senior leaders on how EdTech has improved standards, reduced workload and generally just worked! Sounds like something you would like to hear about? Stick around.

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