All Episodes
The Impact Podcast — 262 episodes
Episode 238: The disadvantage gap widens in Wales - again
Episode 237: Anna Brychan interview
Episode 236: The scaffolding effect, with Rachel Ball
Episode 235: Estyn’s 10 year record
Episode 234: Why isn’t the disadvantage gap closing in Wales?
Episode 233: Executive Functions, with Mitch Weathers and Sarah Oberle
Special episode: Wales’s new education minister
Episode 232: Post-election fallout - what happens now?
Episode 231: All about forgetting
Episode 230: Are your pupils paying attention?
Senedd election special episode 7: The debrief
Episode 229: Quality assuring assessment, with St Richard Gwyn
Senedd election special episode 6: Reform UK
Episode 228: Is Estyn expert or novice?
Senedd election special episode 5: Plaid Cymru
Senedd election special episode 4: Welsh Liberal Democrats
Senedd election special episode 3: Welsh Labour
Episode 227: Why pupils don’t act on feedback
Senedd election special episode 2: Wales Green Party
Senedd election special episode 1: Welsh Conservatives
Episode 226: What happens when a school rethinks learning
Episode 225: Two schools’ improvement journeys
Episode 224: Self evaluation - a tool that works
Episode 223: Reading - why Wales fails
Episode 222: Improving teaching practice, with Larbert High School
Episode 221: Teachers and Senedd elections
Episode 220: Retrieval practice - fidelity over form
Episode 219: What to do about cognitive load
Episode 218: Which country’s curriculum is best?
Episode 217: Our year in schools
Episode 216: Vocabulary, with Alison Williamson
Episode 215: The Illustrated Guide to Pedagogy
Episode 214: Executive functions, with Mitch Weathers
Episode 213: In the news #11
Episode 212: Barriers to learning #3: Low-level disruption
Episode 211: “Why I quit.” Literacy expert speaks out
Episode 210: In the news #10, with Rob Randel
Episode 209: Questioning for learning
Episode 208: Barriers to learning #2: Pupils don’t learn what they’re taught
Episode 207: Positive change, with Innes Robinson
Episode 206: Barriers to learning #1: Passive learners
Episode 205: Raising maths attainment, with Kieran Mackle & Estyn
Episode 204: Helping struggling readers
Episode 203: The NI curriculum review, with Lucy Crehan
Episode 202: In the news #9
Episode 201: Ten years of Impact
Episode 200: Compliance or empowerment?
Episode 199: Revisiting the learning trajectory, with Jared Cooney Horvath
Episode 198: We need to talk about oracy
Episode 197: Estyn’s recommendations 2024-2025 - Part 2
Episode 196: Estyn recommendations 2024-2025 - Part 1
A quick message…
Episode 195: Return to the middle tier review
Episode 194: Senedd elections and education policies
Episode 193: How to teach more words
Episode 192: The things we still can’t say
Episode 191: The expertise reversal effect
Episode 190: Closing the disadvantage gap, with Finola Wilson
Episode 189: How to teach reading, with Jolly Phonics
Episode 188: Estyn’s view of reading
Episode 187: Retrieval practice
Episode 186: Making Change Stick, with Dr James Mannion
Episode 185: Money really matters to schools
Episode 184: Worked Examples
Episode 183: Update to the Middle Tier Review
Episode 182: Successful Futures - Part 3
Episode 181: Successful Futures - Part 2
Episode 180: Successful Futures - Part 1
Episode 179: In the news #8
Episode 178: Our year in schools
Episode 177: Teachers rebranded
Episode 176: High impact schools
Episode 175: Making learning effortless
Episode 174: Generative learning
Episode 173: In the news #7
Episode 172: Reading, with Rhys Williams
Episode 171: Reading update & retrieval practice
Episode 170: Getting writing right
Episode 169: The three-legged stool of learning
Episode 168: Almost an interview with Lynne Neagle
Episode 167: DIY school improvement risks and fixes
Episode 166: How we have an impact in schools
Episode 165: Differentiation
Episode 164: In the News #6
Episode 163: Roundup of 2024
Episode 162: The power of drawing
Episode 161: Curriculum coherence
Episode 160: Education policy in Wales is failing
Episode 159: Curriculum for Wales, with Lucy Crehan
Episode 158: Analysis of Estyn recommendations - part 2
Episode 157: Analysis of Estyn recommendations - part 1
Episode 156: Where is Lynne Neagle taking us?
Episode 155: What teachers in Wales should stop doing
Episode 154: From novice to expert
Episode 153: Why resilience underpins all learning
Episode 152: Do we need Desperate Measures in Wales?
Episode 151: Five challenges for Wales’ new education minister
Special episode: Can our new cabinet secretary for education bring schools back from the brink?
Episode 150: In the news #5
Episode 149: Giving effective feedback
Episode 148: Teaching the basics
Episode 147: Multiple choice questions
Episode 146: A culture of professional learning, with Sue Marles
Episode 145: Something is rotten in the state of Wales
Episode 144: Deep learning
Episode 143: Progression in CfW
Episode 142: All about cognitive load theory
Episode 141: What teachers really think of CfW
Episode 140: The Impact Christmas Quiz
Episode 139: Resilience in learning
Episode 138: PISA - Part 2
Episode 137: PISA - Part 1
Episode 136: CfW - the reality gap
Episode 135: Independent learning
Episode 134: Looking back at the science of learning, with Jared Cooney Horvath
Episode 133: More budget cuts, bigger threat
Episode 132: Closing the disadvantage gap
Episode 131: Building CfW, with Hugo Hutchison
Episode 130: Looking back at deliberate practice
Episode 129: Reading comprehension, with Chris Such
Episode 128: Estyn recommendations - an analysis
Episode 127: Tracking progress in CfW, part 2
Episode 126: Pedagogy in CfW
Episode 125: Accountability - support, not shame
Episode 124: In the news #4
Episode 123: Tracking progress in CfW, with St Richard Gwyn
Episode 122: Made for Wales GCSEs
Episode 121: How we’re getting reading comprehension wrong
Episode 120: The trouble with online professional learning
Episode 119: Knowledge that makes a difference
Episode 118: Budget cuts - the threat to education
Episode 117: Questioning
Episode 116: Making curriculum work in the classroom
Episode 115: CfW progress and problems
Episode 114: Reading revisited
Episode 113: The Estyn effect
Episode 112: The teaching and learning gap
Episode 111: In the news #3
Episode 110: The Scottish Route to CfW
Episode 109: Assessment and progression in CfW, with Matthew McAvoy
Episode 108: Power Up Your Pedagogy, with Bruce Robertson
Episode 107: CfE is failing - Will CfW fail too?
Episode 106: Vulnerable and disadvantaged learners
Episode 105: Wellbeing revisited
Episode 104: Professional learning on social media
Episode 103: Estyn - how inspection might shape the future of CfW
Episode 102: Curriculum design, with Will Barrett
Episode 101: Deliberate practice
Episode 100: Celebrating a century!
Episode 99: Progression in CfW - the view from the classroom
Episode 98: Five lethal mutations in CfW
Episode 97: Success criteria
Episode 96: The best of the guests - part 2
Episode 95: Accountability - complex but clear
Episode 94: The best of the guests - Curriculum for Wales
Episode 93: Crystal ball
Episode 92: Crisis? What crisis?
Episode 91: Progress towards CfW, part two
Episode 90: When reading is a problem
Episode 89: Progress towards CfW, part one
Episode 88: The inner voice, with Ethan Kross
Episode 87: Closing the gap
Episode 86: Review of the year
Episode 85: Accountability - make or break
Episode 84: Equity in CfW
Episode 83: Are we nearly there yet?
Episode 82: Teacher wellbeing and resilience, with Dr Hayley Lewis
Episode 81: The wellbeing crisis
Episode 80: In the news #2
Episode 79: Assessment in CfW - making it work
Episode 78: The ‘must and should’ of CFW
Episode 77: Are we all frogs?
Episode 76: The teaching delusion, with Bruce Robertson
Episode 75: Curriculum conversations, with Steph Robinson
Episode 74: In the news this week…
Episode 73: Is CfW being Anglicised?
Episode 72: CfW - The unanswered questions
Episode 71: Is education in Wales research informed?
Episode 70: Teaching grammar, with Ian Timbrell
Episode 69: Improving pedagogy, with Ceri Richmond
Episode 68: CFW - The Final Countdown
Episode 67: What’s with all the questions?
Episode 66: Reading wars, with Rob Randel
Episode 65: Changes to CfW assessment
Episode 64: Best of times, worst of times
Episode 63: New Year, new statistics
Episode 62: Extending the school day
Episode 61: Children’s habits, with Harry Fletcher-Wood
Episode 60: Accountability
Episode 59: Pedagogy in CfW, with Jamie Tennant
Special episode: The plan for reading, with Rob Randel
Episode 58: Curriculum for Excellence, with James McEnaney
Episode 57: Making an impact during Covid
Episode 56: Progress towards Curriculum for Wales
Episode 55: International curriculum development, with Lucy Crehan
Episode 54: Professional learning priorities
Episode 53: Professional learning with impact
Special episode: A crisis in education
Episode 52: Curriculum Theory, with Dr Kevin Smith
Episode 51: Is what we think about creativity right?
Episode 50: One school’s reading journey, with Tracy Jones
Special episode: The CFW Assessment Consultation
Episode 49: Resilience
Special episode: Jeremy Miles
Episode 48: What qualifies us to support you?
Episode 47: A quick solution for CfW
Episode 46: Lessons from Scotland
Episode 45: Building back better towards reform
Episode 44: How to teach for transfer
Episode 43: The importance of reading, with Rob Randel
Episode 42: An open and honest discussion
Episode 41: The challenges facing Wales’ new education minister
Episode 40: Research into practice, with Henry Sauntson
Episode 39: What is curriculum?
Election special 5: Analysis
Election special 4: Steven Aicheler
Election special 3: Siân Gwenllian
Election special 2: Tomos Dafydd Davies
Election special 1: Hefin David
Episode 38: The trouble with assessment
Episode 37: Standing for something
Episode 36: Knowledge or enquiry?
Episode 35: The science of learning, with Jared Cooney Horvath
Episode 34: Curriculum for Wales - are we ready?
Episode 33: Stories from teaching
Episode 32: Journey or destination?
Episode 31: Building back
Episode 30: Resilience and coping with pressure
Episode 29: Focusing on what works
Episode 28: The quality of teaching and learning in lockdown
Episode 27: Online learning and tech with Becki Bawler
Episode 26: The four key principles of learning
Episode 25: In conversation with Alex Barons
Episode 24: Building resilient learners
Episode 23: In conversation with Prof. Rob Coe
Episode 22: In conversation with Melissa Armishaw
Episode 21: Has professional learning changed forever?
Special Episode: Wales cancels 2021 exams - what does it mean?
Episode 20: In conversation with Daisy Christodoulou
Episode 19: We need to talk about assessment
Episode 18: In conversation with Leanne Eyre
Special episode: The journey to curriculum 2022
Episode 17: In conversation with Sam Eaton
Episode 16: Strategies for the Covid classroom
Episode 15: In conversation with Richard Jenkins
Episode 14: In conversation with Gareth Evans
Episode 13: In conversation with Kirsty Williams
Episode 12: Reflections on the return to school
Episode 11: Back to the classroom
Special episode: A-levels and education laid bare
Episode 10: Preparing for the new term
Episode 9: Adapting for Curriculum for Wales
Special episode: The September reopening guidance
Episode 8: Flexibility and the future of education
Episode 7: Planning for the long term
Episode 6: Blended learning
Episode 5: The return to school guidance
Special episode: The reopening of schools in Wales
Episode 4: Curriculum for Wales
Episode 3: The future of home learning
Episode 2: Life and learning in lockdown
Episode 1: An introduction to Impact