Scottish Educators Connect : Recent Episodes
Anita Le Tissier & James Cook
The Scottish Educators Connect has grown across social media to provide a safe space for educators to develop professionally through topical and academic reading.
Throughout the SEC meetings, many education and political issues are explored -this podcast has been set up to explore further some issues raised.
If you have an interest in Scottish educational issues, do get in touch to guest on our podcast.
New episodes every Thursday.
Podcast Hosts: James Cook and Anita Le Tissier
James and Anita summarise the series, offering their changing thoughts on The National Discussion.
Anita and James talk to Carmel, Edinburgh educational psychologist and advocate for care experienced young people. What an episode to end our interviews on! You can find Carmel on Twitter @carmel_jacob
James talks to Blair Minchin about The National Discussion. Key themes include playfulness, care and respect for pupils. You can find Blair on Twitter @Mr_Minchin
James and Anita talk to Sarah Philp, psychologist, coach and cohost of Changing Conversations Podcast. Key themes include systems level improvement, humanness and energy for change. Find Sarah’s podcast @ChangingConversation on Twitter and you can listen on all major podcast platforms.
James and Anita talk to primary school teacher Hazel Pinner about The National Discussion. They explore global citizenship, professional learning and a curriculum for inclusion. You can find Hazel on Twitter @Hazelmpinner
James and Anita talk to Dr Al Azzawi about the National Discussion in Scottish education. Key themes include transition, professional collaboration and employability of teachers.
James and Anita talk to Edinburgh Principal Teacher Tom MacKenzie Chalmers about The National Discussion. They explore the attainment gap, sharing practice and professional learning. You can follow more of Tom’s work by following on Twitter @Tommc93 #TalkScottishEducation
James and Anita continue the conversation around #TalkScottishEducation and ask Glasgow teacher, EIS Anti-Racist sub committee chair, and founder of @GCEducationScot, Nuzhat Uthmani about her views on developing Scottish Education. Join the discussion by following us on Twitter @ScotEdConnect
James and Anita return to #TalkScottishEducation as the National Discussion on education continues across the country.
After a nine month hiatus, James and Anita are back, and this time, we get deep and personal - sharing our own live in imposter. To find out more visit www.scottisheducatorsconnect.com or follow @ScotEdConnect on Twitter.
James and Anita blether together as they share their experiences of being LGBTQI+ young people and now educators.
As our book club explores Professor Morag Treanor’s Child Poverty: aspiring to survive, James and Anita interview Sara Spencer from Child Poverty Action Group Scotland.
For this episode of Scottish Educators Connect Podcast, James and Anita chat to author, speaker and educator, Richard Gerver. Richard is the author of SEC's most recent book study and this conversation explores leadership, values and collaboration. Find out more at www.scottisheducatorsconnect.com or @ScotEdConnect on Twitter.
James and Anita explore leadership and values with inspiring and interesting Highland leader, Audrey Buchanan. Find out more at www.ScottishEducatorsConnect.com or @ScotEdConnect
James and Anita talk to Glasgow teacher, and former Clinical Psychologist, Pamela. Pamela talks about her journey to teaching, her journey to SEC and her values. Find out more at ScottishEducatorsConnect.com
Continuing with their theme of interviewing current SEC members, James and Anita interview Fife teacher, and SEC member, Hannah MacGregor. Hannah shares her professional journey, values and other interests.
James and Anita continue with the suite of podcasts interviewing Scottish Educators Connect participants. This episode is Dolores values, leadership and supporting families with children who experience complex medical and addition support needs. You can find out more at www.ScottishEducatorsConnect.com or on Twitter @ScotEdConnect
In this episode of Scottish Educators Connect podcast, James and Anita interview Edinburgh Headteacher and recent SEC member, Kevin Brack. Values, Leadership and responding through COVID-19 are all discussed. Find out more at ScottishEducatorsConnect.com or @ScotEdConnect on Twitter.
James and Anita interview SEC member and Highland AHP, Rebecca Castelo. They talk SEC, values and leadership. Find out more @ScotEdConnect
For this suite of podcasts, James and Anita interview members of SEC about their experience of joining the professional learning network and what the impact is on their practice. You can find out more at www.scottisheducatorsconnect.com or @scotedconnect on Twitter.
On this episode of SEC, James and Anita talk to Pauline Beirne of The Scottish Government. They talk about leadership across a multiagency national team, values and getting right for every child. Find out more at www.scottisheducatorsconnect.com or @ScotEdConnect on Twitter.
Continuing with the theme of leadership development, James and Anita are joined by Gillian Hamilton, Strategic Director of Education Scotland in developing Leadership and Professional Learning. Here the three talk about values, leaderships journeys, Scottish education during the COVID-19 Lockodwn of 2020. To find out more you can visit www.scottisheducatorsconnect.com or search @ScotEdConnect on Twitter.
To explore Education Scotland's professional learning online materials, visit professionallearning.education.gov.scot
On this episode of Scottish Educators Connect podcast, James and Anita interview multiple award winning Headteacher Lindsey Watt. They explore values based leadership and Lindsey's experience of turning around challenging schools with her values based approach. As always, find out more on www.scottisheducatorsconnect.com or find us on Twitter @ScotEdConnect
In this episode of Scottish Educators Connect podcast, James and Anita talk with Bernadette Cairns, Principal Psychologist with Highland Council. They talk leadership, change and values based practice. As ever, you can join the discussion at ScottishEducatorsConnect.com or search @ScotEdConnect on Twitter.
As we move on to our theme of leadership & change in education, Anita interviews James about his journey thus far. They talk openly about leadership, values and moral purpose. Find out more at www.scottisheducatorsconnect.com or search for @ScotEdConnect on Twitter.
As we move on to our theme of leadership & change in education, James interviews Anita about her journey thus far. They talk openly about leadership, values and moral purpose. Find out more at www.scottisheducatorsconnect.com or search for @ScotEdConnect on Twitter.
This week, Anita & James talk to Professor Morag Treanor of Heriot Watt University. We discuss Child and family poverty, impacts on schools and how we can help. Find out more on www.scottisheducatorsconnect.com or search @ScotEdConnect on Twitter.
This is the first episode in a duo which explores poverty, early years supports and treating all families with dignity and respect. We talk to Ruth McKenzie about the role of Early Years Centres in supporting families and how she manages to support families respectfully and with kindness. Find out more at www.scottisheducatorsconnect.com or #ScottishEducators Connect on Twitter.
This episode is the second in a series exploring trauma informed practice. We are joined by Yvonne Fulton, Depute Headteacher of the Inclusion & Wellbeing Service in Falkirk Council. Today we talk about the Education Scotland curricular resources called 'Compassionate & Connected Classrooms.' Join the discussion at www.scottisheducatorsconnect.com or #scottisheducatorsconnect
This episode is the first in a series exploring trauma informed practice. We are joined by James MacTaggart an Early Years Educational Psychologist. Join the discussion at www.scottisheducatorsconnect.com or #scottisheducatorsconnect
On this Episode of the Scottish Educators Connect Podcast, James and Anita have a conversation with two wonderful Primary 1 teachers. Both teachers are members the Scottish Educators Connect book blether group for CLPL. Both have also written blogs about their journey towards a play approach in P1 witch can be found here: https://scottisheducatorsconnect.com/member-blogs/
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This episode is the second in a trio exploring play pedagogy into Primary One and beyond. We are joined by Rhian Ferguson and Sharon Imray, two very passional Early Childhood Educators who have been prominent members of Scottish Educators Connect thus far.
Join the discussion at www.scottisheducatorsconnect.com or #scottisheducatorsconnect
This episode is the first in a trio exploring play pedagogy into Primary One and beyond. We are joined by Catriona Gill an Edinburgh nursery school Headteacher, author and university course tutor.
Join the discussion at www.scottisheducatorsconnect.com or #scottisheducatorsconnect
Scottish Educators Connect was started in May 2020 and has grown into a connection of education practitioners which was unprecedented. Throughout the connect meetings, the facilitators James & Anita were keen to continue to extend the conversation around the issues raised as well as offer a space where we can talk about what our new learning looks like in practice. We hope this podcast will do that.
This episode introduces to the Scottish Educators Connect movement and what it means to the founders.