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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Twitter – @360SkillsForLife
LinkedIn – /360skillsforlife
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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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www.facebook.com/rickchromeyspeaker
www.instagram.com/drrickchromey/
twitter.com/Dr_Rick_Chromey
www.youtube.com/channel/UCoXjDFeB-2ZcQmsOeISJq-A
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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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273: The role of edtech in narrowing the attainment gap with Tassomai
Narrowing the attainment gap remains the key challenge for the education system, especially as we steer our way out of the pandemic.
In February 2022, Tassomai hosted a round table discussion, bringing together some of the leading thinkers and innovators in the education world to consider the role that edtech software could, and should, play in tackling this challenge.
The participants felt edtech had the potential to support but it wasn’t a magic wand, it needed to be considered with care:
- Data from edtech software needs to be easy to analyse so it can effectively inform teaching and learning decisions and support disadvantaged learners.
- Connecting data with demographics is essential for schools to understand how disadvantaged learners are progressing.
- Designing for disadvantaged children from the start can ensure their needs are prioritised.
Following the round table a short report has been produced to capture the wide ranging and insightful discussion.
You can download the report here.
James Stradling is Head of Science at All Saints Academy in Weymouth and has been at the school for around 15 Years.
Tassomai was founded by learning and revision expert Murray Morrison, who built the program to help his own students learn more effectively. Using techniques from sports and music coaching, Murray created a program to test and teach through continuous practice and adapted repetition.
Since 2012, Murray has focused fully on developing Tassomai as a software and a business. Tassomai has established itself as an edtech tool able to transform teaching and learning, helping over 250,000 students get their best possible grades. Its essential power is to be able to identify where students need more support and direct them (along with their teachers and parents) to practice and resources that can help.
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@Tassomai
@MurrayTassomai
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272: Learning through connection and community with Decoteau Irby
Decoteau creates teaching and learning experiences, music and stories, and opportunities for people to be in community. Be it through music, encouraging the use of urban green spaces, or creating opportunities for Black people to generate wealth and wellness, his priorities are grounded in “going at it” together and creating space for people to shine.
Throughout his life, he has created all sorts of things, spaces, and experiences. These include businesses, such Derute Consulting Cooperative, a firm he co-founded in 2013; Visioning Black Spaces LLC, a collective of families that pool and invest our resources to improve Chicago’s Black neighborhoods; and Deaky Bug Creative Works LLC, a firm he uses to curate and finance his personal creative endeavors and collaborations.
Decoteau is a professor at University of Illinois at Chicago and author or co-editor of several books, including Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership (Harvard Education Press) and a children’s book Magical Black Tears: A Protest Story (Derute Consulting Cooperative).
Through all of his work, he is committed to creating spaces that bring people together in community. He is active in his neighborhood community garden and serves as treasurer for his local park advisory council. Finally, a self-taught guitarist, songwriter, performer, and recording artist; with two albums released and available on his website.
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Twitter: @decoteauirby
IG: decoteaublack
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/decoteau-irby
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