Filling The Pail

Professor Dan Willingham is a psychologist at the University of Virginia. Dan started out as a cognitive psychology and neuroscience researcher, but an encounter with E. D. Hirsch Jr. led him to take ...

27 Jul 20201h 3min

Pam Snow is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia. In this episode, she talks to Greg Ashman about her new role in bringing cognitive science to teacher educa...

14 Jul 20201h 7min

Dylan Wiliam is a world famous educationalist and author probably best known for his research on formative assessment. In this episode, he talks to Greg Ashman about how he became interested in format...

1 Jul 20201h 7min

Katharine Birbalsingh is Headmistress of Michaela Community School, a Free School serving inner city London. In this episode, she talks to Greg Ashman about Free Schools, the challenges she faced sett...

23 Jun 20201h 4min

Andrew Old is the godfather of UK teacher bloggers. Not only does he write a blog that has influenced UK government policy and OFSTED, the English schools inspectorate, he has encouraged teacher blogg...

10 Jun 20201h 6min

Daisy Christodoulou is a former teacher and is currently director of No More Marking, an online engine which aims to help teachers with comparative-judgement assessment of school work. Daisy's influen...

26 Mai 20201h 3min

Tom Bennett is the founder of researchED, a grass-roots organisation that raises research literacy in education. In 2015 he became the UK government's school 'Behaviour Czar', advising on behaviour po...

13 Mai 20201h 5min