Full line-up now available

To see all the speakers, talk descriptions and bios, visit rethinking-ed.org/rethinked23

Confirmed speakers and talk titles so far:

Keynotes

Adele Bates – Rethinking Behaviour

Jeffrey Boakye – Exploring identity for inclusion

Guy Claxton – School is very strange

Valerie Hannon – The new politics of education transformation

Alison Kriel – How education can create a better world

Sir Anthony Seldon – “We don’t need no education”: Why Pink Floyd were right

Tom Sherrington – Celebrating Achievement: Implementing your own school Baccalaureate

Speakers A-Z

Frances Akinde – Exploring the intersectionality between race and SEND

Jonas Andrew-Phillip – The teacher-student relationship: Authentic or authoritative?

Kate Appleby – The Importance of meeting children where they are

Kulvarn Atwal – The Thinking School: Developing a Dynamic Learning Community

Chris Bagley – Breaking the Silence – a curriculum shaped around constellation leadership, co-production and common humanity

Victoria Bagnall – Unpacking society’s unconscious bias about neurodiversity

Adele Bates, Kat Stern & Tony Meehan – Rethinking Behaviour (panel discussion)

Matt Bawler – Rethinking Our Mental Health Crisis: It all starts with Early Years

Claudia Bellwood & Andi Silvain – Values matter: how values can shape education

Thomas Breakwell – The teacher as activist – inside and outside of the classroom

Joshua Brown-Smith – How can we apply therapeutic action in Secondary Education?

Georgina Burt & Kate Anstey – Poverty and stigma: What young people want everyone in schools to know, think and feel

John Carden – Agency and the future of education

Emily Charkin & Len Senior – Instead of School: What’s the alternative?

Joshua Coombes – Do Something For Nothing: The Power of Human Connection

Amy Cooper & Kim Wells – ‘Experience is the teacher of all things’

Bart Crisp – Supporting the “forgotten third”

Jenna Crittenden – Rethinking Curriculum: A National Primary Project

Ian Cunningham – Subverting schooling in order to get a good education: A guide for parents and young people

Sarah Davies – Oracy: The What? The Why? and the How?

Ben Davis – Into the Mountain: staying the course in ethical school leadership and the art of showing up

Mark Deacon – Rethinking the language of ‘challenge’ and ‘rigour’

Anita Devi – SEND leadership in schools: a different perspective

Rosina Dorelli & Zubair Junjunia – Designing a Biophilic and Community-led Education Movement

Pete Dudley – Re-understanding education through teachers’ enquiring eyes

The Education Policy Alliance – Panel discussion – Translating ideas into action

Juliet English – The Learning Delusion: The Reality Gap between Education Policy and the Evidence

Maia Finlayson & Rosie Finlayson – Ups and Downs of Home Education: Learning, Socialising, and Exams

Tracy Firth – How to grow healthy young minds: Restorying limiting beliefs in primary school

James Fornara – Why creativity matters, and how to inject some into your setting

Charlotte Forwood – Design thinking for all: the power of co-creating

Eliza Fricker & Naomi Fisher – The Art and Science of the Polyvagal Theory: An illustrated talk

Poppy Gibson – Let’s talk about death

Carlie Goldsmith & Curtis James – The importance of community activism in challenging education inequality

Mark Goodwin – Rethinking community engagement: How to connect with ‘hard-to-reach’ families

Helen Gourley & Sarah Seleznyov – Play matters: infusing play throughout school

Sophie Hale – The UK childhood mental health crisis; why I quit my teaching career in mainstream education and what we can do better for the next generation

Joe Hallgarten – Pragmatic Progressivism: Why (so-called) education progressives keep shooting ourselves in the feet, and what can we do about it?

Andrew Hampton – Working with Boys, Creating Cultures of Mutual Respect in Schools

Heidi Rabia Heinemann & Clare Richardson – ‘Othering’ and the power of cross-sector contact

Kamalagita Hughes – Creating the weather in the classroom: How mindfulness can help teachers manage their wellbeing and create a positive school culture

Martin Illingworth & Rhythmical Mike – Forget School: Why young people are succeeding on their own terms and what schools can do to avoid being left behind

Sian James & Rosie McConnell – Change is Possible! Supporting a New Curriculum for Wales and the Case for Creative Approaches to Teaching & Learning

Iva Jankova – Comparing the educational experience in Macedonia and England

Laura Kerbey – The Educator’s Experience of Pathological Demand Avoidance

René Kneyber & Hilly Drok – The Creeping Crisis – How Dutch Education Policy is Making National Reform Impossible

Rebecca Leek – Permaculture as a model for school leadership

Emily Magrath – What we’ve learned: 20 years of long term support and local learning centres

Harriet Marshall – Human flourishing: the transformational power of real human stories

Toby Marshall (Academy of Ideas) – What is indoctrination within education and how might it be avoided?

Andy Mellor – Academic progress without the drilling!

Umaira Nauman Rizvi – The relevance of Partition of India and Pakistan 1947 in Modern Britain Society

Frank Norris & Meena Wood (and a panel of HMIs) – Raising standards is also about inspections!

Jacqueline O’Connell & Jodi Buchannan – Home Education/Alternative learning: Why it is vital for the happiness of our children

Ife Obasa – Why the future of education must have representation

Hayley Peacock – Atelier 21 Future School – A Revolutionary Response to School

Amelia Peterson – Interdisciplinary Learning and generative AI: what does good AI use look like?

Catherine Place & Ty Golding – What Could Be: A Collaborative Approach to Improving Practice

Lox Pratt & Kath Pratt – Abandon Ship! A drama and film-making workshop

Lucia Quadrini – Putting an end to the 11-plus

Rocktopus! – Interactive song-based fun

Sue Roffey – Not tweaking but transforming: The Future of Education

Dennis Sherwood – The Great Grading Scandal

Sarah Sivers & Maddi Popoola – “School is too much pressure!”: What Young People Feel has the Greatest Impact on their Mental Health

Sophie Smith-Tong & Megan Glenister – Exploring Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Early Years

Andrew Speight – Emoco: a cooperative & systems-level approach to embedding a culture of well-being in our schools

Alex Standish, Tom Rogers & Mark Taylor – Debate: Warm-strict is the answer to pupil misbehaviour in schools (Academy of Ideas)

Marcelo Staricoff – The Joy of Not Knowing- Exploring practical ideas that develop an intrinsic and deep love of learning in all students from an early age

Jess Staufenberg – What should Labour do about private schools?

Heidi Steel – Don’t Be Afraid of Play: The invaluable role of unstructured play beyond the early year

Lucy Stephens, Alison Macdonald, Caroline Oliver & Freya Aquarone – The New School: Evolving education; exchanging knowledge

Paul Sturtivant – Global Citizens Programme: Metacognition, Oracy and Self-Regulated Learning in Action

Roger Sutcliffe – Thinking Moves A – Z: a simple but comprehensive scheme for teaching thinking, metacognition and self-regulation

Diane Swift – Coherence in Curriculum Design and Development

Tim Taylor – Introducing Dramatic Inquiry – developing imaginary contexts for learning

Jon Thorne – How we created a more neurodiverse version of sports coaching

Ben White – Follow the Meaning: Exploring the place, power and potential of stories told in our schools

Meena Wood – Rebooting Education and Inspection: Learning from International Perspectives and AI

Curtis Worrell – Exploring deficit ideology in the classroom, and the role educators have in dismantling it