356: Voice 21 – oracy education charity with Amy Gaunt
Voice 21 is the UK’s oracy education charity. They work with schools to transform the learning and life chances of young people through talk. They campaign for oracy to have a higher status in the education system.
Oracy skills are vital to success in school and in life. And yet, for many children, especially those growing up in poverty, opportunities to develop these vital skills are missed. Only a minority of schools have consistent, coherent or adequately resourced provision to develop these skills in their students.
Voice 21’s sustained approach weaves oracy into a school’s DNA, ensuring current and future students have access to a high-quality oracy education. This means that students in Voice 21 Oracy Schools, including those who would otherwise miss out, develop the oracy skills they need for success in school and in life.
Amy Gaunt is Director of Learning and Impact at Voice 21. Amy joined the charity’s founding leadership team in 2016 and has supported its growth from one London school to a network of nearly 1000 schools across the UK. She has developed Voice 21’s approach to oracy education, teacher development and school improvement and has led the development of their impact function. She is co-author of Transform Teaching and Learning through Talk: the Oracy Imperative and Voice 21’s Oracy Benchmarks. Before joining Voice 21, Amy was a primary teacher, both in London and internationally.
Website
Social Media Information
@voice21oracy (Twitter)
@amy_gaunt (Twitter)
Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE)
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355: Project Based Learning with Ryan Steuer
Ryan Steuer sees Project Based Learning as a way to change the world and is the founder of Magnify Learning, a PBL professional development organization that equips teachers, instructional coaches, and principals across the country to engage learners, tackle boredom, and transform classrooms. Prior to founding Magnify Learning, Ryan was an engineer for a Fortune 50 company, 8th grade English teacher, and missionary. He shares his education and leadership insights on YouTube and on the PBL Simplified podcast.
Website
Social Media Information
Twitter @ryansteuer
IG @magnifylearning
Resources Mentioned
Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE)
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TEFOS 2023
Every year since 2018, tens of thousands of compassionate and proactive Parents and Educators from around the globe come together for TEFOS, The Executive Function Online Summit. It’s a unique, Free 3-day learning event, where leading experts teach you how to support Struggling Students with Executive Function challenges.
www.educationonfire.com/tefos (Affiliate Link)
354: Transforming young people’s life chances with Neil Moggan
Neil Moggan is a former Director of Sport, Health and RSHE at a secondary school where children’s life expectancy ranged by 13 years depending on what side of the main road outside the school they were born on. This led to Neil being so passionate about transforming young people’s life chances.
Neil has been recognised for his work in reducing obesity, early intervention mental wellbeing programmes, financial literacy and trauma informed practice.
Since lockdown Neil has helped over 100 schools across the world implement his ‘RISE Up’ early intervention mental well-being programme through his company Future Action.
Neil is a trauma informed practitioner and has created & road tested the ‘Recover’ roadmap to guide PE departments how to implement trauma informed practice to transform relationships, engagement, attendance, behaviour & learning in the short term and improve their life chances in the long term.
Neil is currently writing a book, being published in October 2023 by Scholarly, on the decline of children’s mental health since 2010 and how schools can contribute to a solution. Neil is also a consultant for a number of schools, NGOs and companies.
Website
Social Media Information
Book a call: calendly.com/info-33513
Web: www.futureaction.co.uk
Facebook: Future Action
Twitter: @neilfutureact
Linkedin: Neil Moggan
Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE)
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TEFOS 2023
Every year since 2018, tens of thousands of compassionate and proactive Parents and Educators from around the globe come together for TEFOS, The Executive Function Online Summit. It’s a unique, Free 3-day learning event, where leading experts teach you how to support Struggling Students with Executive Function challenges.
www.educationonfire.com/tefos (Affiliate Link)
353: ‘The Power of Thought’ children’s book series with Lynn McLaughlin
Lynn McLaughlin has served in many roles as an educator … Superintendent, Principal, Vice-Principal, Teacher, and Educational Consultant. In addition to her business, Lynn now teaches future Educational Assistants at her local College.
As a best-selling and award-winning author, Lynn has now teamed up with her niece, Amber Raymond, to co-author a children’s book series titled, “The Power of Thought”. Both are passionate about being proactive when it comes to children’s mental health. When children learn to manage their emotions at a young age, they learn to problem-solve and find positive solutions to everyday situations.
Lynn has hosted the podcast, Taking the Helm for over three years and introduces us to a new, courageous guest on Wednesdays. Every episode is archived and searchable on her website by keyword or topic. One of her guests might be the change agent you need in your own life!
Lynn’s professional speaking experiences have been local, provincial, and international. She is passionate about children’s emotional well-being and what we as adults must do to ensure our children have the skills, mindset, and strategies to be successful and happy in today’s world.
Dedicated to community causes, Lynn is a member of 100 Women Who Care Windsor/Essex and is a Rotarian. As a brain tumour survivor, she works tirelessly to support the goals of the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada.
Website
Social Media Information
www.facebook.com/lynnmclaughlin.co/
www.youtube.com/channel/UCkyeari6SNO4ZKQ5Un-_f4w?view_as=subscriber
www.instagram.com/lynnmcla/
www.linkedin.com/in/lynn-mclaughlin-med-bed-ba-2a8b5384/
twitter.com/lynnmcla
Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE)
Get access to all 20 videos from the the summit at www.nape.org.uk/summit
TEFOS 2023
Every year since 2018, tens of thousands of compassionate and proactive Parents and Educators from around the globe come together for TEFOS, The Executive Function Online Summit. It’s a unique, Free 3-day learning event, where leading experts teach you how to support Struggling Students with Executive Function challenges.
www.educationonfire.com/tefos (Affiliate Link)
352: Eteach and Early Career Teachers with Chantal Dos Santos
Chantal was a teacher for the past 17 years. Starting off in Primary education in the beginning of her career, then moving on to teaching maths and science. She has taught in South Africa, America and the UK.
She was then Head of Science for a few years before becoming the Head of the Upper School at an independent boy’s prep school. Chantal heads up the ECT side of Eteach; looking at how we can attract graduates and then how we can work on supporting them throughout their 2-year induction period and ultimately supporting and guiding ECTs to retain them in the education sector.
Website
Social Media Information
www.facebook.com/groups/eteachect
Resources Mentioned
The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE)
Get access to all 20 videos from the the summit at www.nape.org.uk/summit
TEFOS 2023
Every year since 2018, tens of thousands of compassionate and proactive Parents and Educators from around the globe come together for TEFOS, The Executive Function Online Summit. It’s a unique, Free 3-day learning event, where leading experts teach you how to support Struggling Students with Executive Function challenges.
www.educationonfire.com/tefos (Affiliate Link)