291: Tiney – Your modern community of exceptional childminders with Brett Wigdortz
Brett’s lifelong mission is to help every child access an excellent education. He is the co-founder and CEO of Tiney.co, a digital platform and operating system enabling micro-entrepreneurs to launch and run childcare businesses from their homes and giving families access to quality, affordable and flexible early years education. He is also the non-executive chairman of the National Citizen Service Trust, the largest youth programme in the UK for those on the cusp of adulthood.
He wrote the original business plan for Teach First and led the organisation for fifteen years, helping to build it into one of the UK’s leading movements to tackle education inequality and the largest graduate recruiter in the country. He is co-founder and was Deputy CEO of Teach For All, which has brought the model to over 50 countries around the world. He is also a trustee & co-founder of Teach First Israel and the UK Fair Education Alliance and on the board of Bite Back 2030 aiming to reduce youth obesity. He received an OBE for services to education in 2012.
Website
Social Media Information
www.facebook.com/tiney.co/
twitter.com/tineyco
www.instagram.com/tineyco/
Resources Mentioned
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290: Imperfect Heroes Podcast – Insights into Parenting with DJ Stutz
DJ Stutz is the host of Imperfect Heroes: Insights into Parenting. An early childhood specialist with endorsements in special ed and music. She is recently retired with more than 20 years of classroom experience mostly in kindergarten and pre-k. DJ was also a parenting facilitator for the Clark County (Las Vegas) Department of Family and Youth Services where she led classes in a wide variety of venues including 2 women’s prisons.
On her podcast, DJ and her guests share their knowledge and experience through thoughtful episodes whose subject matter is designed to help you develop the confidence and peace to be a great parent and imperfect hero raising independent, productive, and happy children.
DJ fully understands the challenges and concerns that come with parenting. Through Little Hearts Academy USA she offers parenting coaching in group or one-on-one sessions to support parents in their most important job.
DJ is the oldest of 7, mother to 5, grandmother to 12, and auntie to 70.
Website
www.littleheartsacademyusa.com/
Social Media Information
@ImperfectHeroesPodcast – IG
@ImperfectHeroesPodcast – FB
Resources Mentioned
Love at home, starring father – George D Durrant
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289: Leprosy Awareness and Global Citizenship with Lepra
Anna Ansted has been working with international charity, Lepra, for 9 years. Lepra works in India, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe helping people affected by leprosy.
Every day 600 people are diagnosed with leprosy; 50 of those are children. Anna works with schools across the UK to raise awareness about leprosy – that it still exists, that it is curable and with more support, Lepra can help more people.
Working with schools for over 50 years, Lepra have develop a schools’ programme that offers students key learning benefits with strong curriculum links which embed British Values and citizenship. The programme highlights the importance of charities and the work they do and helps students to understand the role they play as global citizens.
As part of Lepra’s schools’ programme, they have teamed up with Maria’s Island author, Victoria Hislop, illustrator, Gill Smith, and Walker Books to develop an educational project, available for schools to download and use for free. The story of Maria’s Island, as seen through the eyes of 10-year-old Maria and her family, helps young people understand the challenges people with leprosy face and, most importantly, how they can be overcome.
Download the free Educational Project Resource including a video assembly with a reading by Victoria Hislop, a free Maria’s Island PDF extract, and helpful teacher notes that prompt exploration into the book’s complex themes.
Anna is married with two primary-aged children and is passionate about inspiring children to use their creative talents to fundraise and help make a difference for people whose lives are affected by leprosy.
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www.facebook.com/LepraUK
twitter.com/LepraUK
www.instagram.com/LepraUK
www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Blr8kQMeNtP–vsw7pJfQ?view_as=subscriber
Resources Mentioned
Download the free Educational Project Resource from Lepra
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288: The Good Eggs – Essential Concepts for Children about Virtues, Diversity, and Service.
The Good Eggs book series is Sandy Ciaramitaro’s contribution to supporting children as they learn about virtues, diversity, and service – essential concepts to integrate into their lives as they grow into Good Eggs! This social emotional learning series is perfect for children ages 5-12.
The Good Eggs Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that works hard to identify childhood support programs, organizations, and families facing challenges in order to provide care and assistance. Once an organization is ‘EGGED,” it will receive the help that is needed. “EGGINGS” can take various forms, such as offering jackets/hats/gloves, offering school supplies to a group of students, or even helping with local children’s events for those in need.
Discover how Sandy is using her passion for learning and good to support children in her community and beyond.
S. Ciaramitaro (Sandy) holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Detroit Mercy and has taught morality, ethics, and social justice courses at a private high school in Michigan. In addition to her teaching career, she has taught, developed, and implemented programs and curricula that are focused on helping children realize the importance of living altruistic lives centered on love. The Good Eggs series is her contribution to supporting children as they learn about virtues, diversity, and service – essential concepts to integrate into their lives as they grow into Good Eggs!
We help raise awareness and funds to make children’s lives a little bit better.
Website
Social Media Information
www.youtube.com/channel/UCaTgWWHXR7_Yueqv4kxjvNA
www.facebook.com/TheGoodEggsFoundation
twitter.com/EggsFoundation
www.linkedin.com/in/thegoodeggsfoundation/
www.instagram.com/thegoodeggsfoundation/
Resources Mentioned
Education on Fire episode 109 as mentioned by Mark Taylor
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287: Dwight Schools with Brantley Turner
Drawing on 25 years of China-based work and 10 years as the founding principal of the only Sino-U.S. independent, cooperatively run high school approved by the Ministry of Education in China, Brantley is consistently ahead of conversations that others are having about globalized education for the 21 st Century.
Driven by a belief in the power of disruption, Qibao Dwight is a living laboratory that allows those within it to experiment with the assumptions and world-views that we all hold and the ways those can hinder or empower us to advance.
She is committed to restless innovation in leadership and management, school improvement, and a cutting-edge arts program that drives student outcomes unmatched in China. This unique school setting is used as an example for policymaking in Beijing that shapes education in China and around the world.
Brantley is recognized for her pioneering work with East-West school leadership and impeccable Chinese communication skills.
Website
Social Media Information
www.linkedin.com/in/brantley-turner-龙梅-39858ba7/
Resources Mentioned
In Praise of Walking – Shane O’Mara
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The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. Get a FREE e-copy of their professional journal at nape.org.uk/journal