278: My Online Schooling with Rob Leitch
Rob Leitch is the Executive Headteacher of My Online Schooling, one of the leading international, online schools delivering a high quality British education to students in the UK and around the world.
My Online Schooling brings British education to young people worldwide. It delivers online lessons from KS2 to A Level and is a registered online Cambridge International School.
My Online Schooling was established with one simple aim: to improve the educational possibilities for young people. They recognise that pupils learn in all different ways and at different paces. That’s why they’ve chosen to create an alternative pathway to the traditional one-size-fits-all approach to education.
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277: Coach T’s Corner with Antwaun Thompson
Antwaun Thompson or Coach T®, has coached and mentored young men and women, helping to improve their athletic skills, personal growth, and personal relationship skills for over 30 years. His basketball coaching covers elementary, middle, and high school, AAU, college and just completed his 10th year at a private school.
Coach T®, is the founder and executive Director of JLT Fieldhouse, a 501c3 nonprofit youth coaching and mentoring organization, dedicated to “Coaching and Mentoring the Leaders of Tomorrow”. This organization is named in honor of his late father, Sgt. Maj. Joe Lewis Thompson, USMC, who adopted Antwaun and his older brother after their mom and Joe were married. The lessons learned from his father is what inspires him to continue by passing it on to the next generation of leaders.
He is also the owner of Coach T’s Corner®, an online mentoring academy that is designed to “Educate, Support and Inspire” our future leaders of tomorrow and to better prepare them to take ownership of the tools for a prosperous future.
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276: 360 Skills For Life with Rob Hattersley
Prepared for life, not just exams
360 are a dynamic social enterprise developing essential skills for life in young people through an interactive learning approach we call discuss, decide and do.
360 Skills For Life provide scenario-based educational experiences that equip learners with the skills, knowledge and confidence to live active, fulfilling and safer lives in stronger and more sustainable communities.
Experience Skill City, their unique VR environment, bringing to life real world safeguarding dilemmas in realistic but safe scenarios.
Their values
- We listen in order to continually learn and improve
- We connect and collaborate because partnerships achieve more for less
- We put the learner and their needs first
- We empower and challenge rather than instruct
- We engage and involve learners in our development
- We adapt and are flexible when encountering new situations and knowledge
- We include all learners regardless of age, disability, gender, relationship or parental status, race, belief, sex or sexual orientation
- We seek the best in everyone to realise individual and collective potential
Their approach
- Holistic, cross-curricular education that delivers transferable skills for 21st century life
- Immersive, practical and interactive learning in which users discuss, make decisions and then do, rather than simply learning facts
- Awareness of surroundings to make good risk assessments, confidently make better decisions and deal with individual and collective challenges
- Blended learning where online, in-school and outdoor strands are closely integrated
- Provision of a realistic dilemma-based virtual Skill City as the core resource
- Partnership with other organisations to maximise impact and value
360 work closely with partners in the public, private and third sectors and deliver three integrated curriculum strands of online, in school and outdoors. The first phase on safeguarding launched in April 2021.
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275: 6 needs of learning with Dr Rick Chromey
DR. RICK CHROMEY is a best-selling author, international speaker, cultural historian, professor, and pastor. His mission is to help people interpret history, navigate culture and explore faith to create trusted and transformative change. He’s authored over a dozen books, including his most recent work titled GenTech: An American Story of Technology, Change and Who We Really Are (2020).
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The 6 needs and environments of learning : G.R.O.W.L.S
Grace
Relationship
Ownership
Worth
Laughter
Security
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274: How business and education can work together with Al Kingsley
Al describes himself as a man of two hats, with one he the is CEO of the EdTech company, NetSupport, with almost 30 years’ experience in corporate and educational technology.
With his other, and with a passion for education and, in particular edtech, governance and raising organisational performance, Al has undertaken numerous roles in education, including being Chair of a Multi-Academy Trust and of an Alternative Provision Academy. He is chair of his regions Governors’ Leadership Group and chairs the regional SEND Board. With 20+ years of governance experience, Al also sits on the Regional Schools Commissioner’s Advisory Board for the East of England and North London, is an FED Council member, Chair of the BESA EdTech Group and chairs his regional Employment and Skills Board.
A well-known face in EdTech around the world, Al is also the author of “My Secret #EdTech Diary” and co-author of “A Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education”. Al writes and speaks internationally on the effective use of Educational Technology and is a Forbes Technology Council Member.
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Twitter – https://twitter.com/AlKingsley_Edu
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/alkingsley1/
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/edtechdiary/
Website – https://www.alkingsley.com
Authory – https://authory.com/AlKingsley
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