We welcome Christian Gompert to the Long walk up to join us for the first part in what will be multiple conversations to discuss student centered learning approaches inside and outside of the classroom. Christian is a High school soccer coach and English teacher from Northwood, USA. As he introduces in this episode, he is an educator who joins us in exploring how he can implement child centered approaches in both his english teaching and his coaching and how the two worlds are entangled.

This was the first of what we hope will be many fascinating reflections with Christian, but to get started in this episode you will here about:

• Debunking the Myth, that student centered means 'Entitled'
• How do we create the sweet spot between challenge and support
• How do we think AI will Positively disrupt traditional approaches to teaching
• What do we feel will e the key teacher qualities needed in the wake of AI

Plus much more....

To find out more about Christian and his work you can check out his learner centered Youtube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/@LearnerCenteredSkillDevt which documents a week in the UK on a travel grant visiting with researchers and sports coaches that are exploring a learner-centered approach to developing motor skills including a visit to north wales to watch yours truly!

You can also find Christian on Twitter at: @CAGompert

As always Thanks for Listening!

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Today we cover:

- The need for removal of survayorship

- The problems with end point assesment

-using competance fram works instead of specific outcomes.

This is just the start of many more reflections on this topic

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In this episode we discuss:

• Why are templates so popular in coaching/teaching?
• What do people need in order to be open to change?
• How can we help people to help themselves?
• Alex shares her inspiring analogy 'the cabin in the woods' to help us thing about creating the conditions for people to open up to change.

Plus much more.....

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• How learning is a process, the importance of placing the process before the outcome.
• The significance of creating a learning thread that goes through each stage of your school journey
• The importance of building connections between your past and present context in your learning?
• Connecting learners at different stages of their learning

And much more!

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We Cover:

• Toms story from being a PUpil to a student at university
• Tom's experiences of being with us for a week
• We chat through the importance of co-coaching and embracing 'The dance'
• Tom shares His answer for the guiding question for our level 2 course this year 'What is a good coach?'
• To shares his advice for coaches

This really was a fun conversation to record and we hope you think the same!

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• How we support young people to regulate
• The importance of Being regulated yourself when you coach
• using Stretch and support with individual's
• Show me vs tell me
• Designing environments built on self determination.

And much More! Listening to teenages talk about coaching like this gives us hope for the future. We really Hope you agree.

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• Its relational Rather than It depends
• How learning as a complex system helps us avoid dogma
• Ecological approaches to learning are not another version of behaviorism
• Making room for the individual's story in the their learning experience

Plus the usual analogies and wondering sensemaking stories.

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Together we cover:

• Tims question from listening to last week's episode, which were: 'what is the difference between story and Narrative?'
• What does narrative mean when it comes to seeing the person first?
• What does it mean to be a disruptor?
• What needs to be in place to facilitate change?

Plus lots more...

Tim Has been a school chaplain at St David's college for over 40 years and has a wealth of experience as a teacher, spiritual guide and charitable founder. Tim is also someone who we both hold a lot of respect and admiration so we are very happy to share his presence with you all.

As ever, Thank you for taking the time out to listen and we welcome any feedback!

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In this episode we cover:

• The importance of narrative when trying the make sense of the world.
• Seeing the person first when dealing with behavior's
• Understanding that the world of education is a complex dynamic system.

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Some things we cover this week:

• Dan rifts on creativity in education
• Finding meaning in the learning process
• The thin veneer on single point assessment
• Being intentional about creating search spaces for learning
• Making sure the student is always in the driving seat

We will tell you were to look, but never what to see!

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Welcome back to the Long walk up, a podcast about education change and the reflections of Dan and Ross as they embark on a journey to embrace different approaches to teaching and learning. In This episode Join us for a deep reflection into our educational experiences and here our throughts on why we do we what do.

Today we cover:

• Attending to the positives in your reflective process
• The importance of a community of practice.
• Teaching the Whole person first, Our strongest guiding principle
• The biology driving our behaviour and decision making process
• Dan finishes with another wonderful analogy 'it's not darkness, just an absence of light'

We hope you enjoy!

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• The landscape of Physical education
• The complexity of the challenges faced in PE and education
• Creating meaningful change in your context
• A minor (non serious) Car crash
• The importance of sharing your story.

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This week we cover:

• The collective mountain (why we need a shared task or project to build from in our learning)
• Remembering our belief's Self determination theory and non-linear approaches.
• The importance of building relatedness
• The self-directed learning pyramid created by Dr Niomi Fisher
• Finally Dan and Ross share what they are learning so far on this unique journey.

As always, Thanks for listening and if you are out there, we would love to hear from you!

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This episode felt honest and incredibly complex to try and navigate. We Hope that you don't get to lost trying to walk with us on this one as we journey through our Honest reflections about teaching in the complex system that is the traditional education approach.

In this episode you will find conversation about:

• How we are doing?
• THe role of teacher agency in learning?
• Ross asks Dan what is on the Horizon that's exciting him about the course...

WE hope you enjoy and really would value any comments or feedback.

Thank You for listening.

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On This episode we cover:

• What is Agency?
• How the students reacted to having Choices this week
• Feedback (what even is it?)
• Using guiding questions
• Our biggest HOPE for the future.

As ever thanks for listening.

(Ps. Stay tuned for new microphones next week!)

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Full of random wonderings, or as Dan introduces through his new word a right 'coddiwomple' which means to travel to a destination unknown. We certainly take the scenic route this week as we attempt to unpack our first set of student learning presentations with plenty of rabbit hole's and analogies along the way, such as:

• What did we notice in our first round of student learning presentations?
• What surprised us?
• Does all learning need to be certified to make it useful for progression?
• The broader purpose of education and learning
• Highlights of the week
• Shoutouts to a good friend of the show and fellow wayfinder
• What are we most excited about

Plus loads more random musings of two educator's, this time in Dan's Fancy new cabin at His home....Plus some hearty soup!

As always any questions welcome and You can find us both On Twitter:

Dan - https://x.com/MrlycettPE?s=20

Ross - https://twitter.com/_andCoach

And on Linked inn

Ross Williams and Dan Lycett.

Enjoy The show!

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This week we cover:

• Riding the waves and embracing the swell
• Reflecting on the continuous curriculum in PE (The lamb tagine)
• Unexpected moments in a non-linear approach
• Teeing Up our much anticipated learning presentations' next week.

Plus some exciting news....

As always any questions welcome You can find us both On Twitter:

Dan - https://x.com/MrlycettPE?s=20

Ross - https://twitter.com/_andCoach

And on Linked inn

Ross Williams and Dan Lycett.

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• Dan's Highlight of the week..
• What are we learning about learning?
• Adjusting to a non-linear approach from the students perspective.
• Biggest challenge
• What are we most excited about

We also touch on the effectiveness of learning meeting's so if you have missed that episode go and check out episode 4.

As Always!

Thanks for listening.

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During the episode share their reflections of what its been like working with individuals through learning meetings, the genuine value and importance of supporting student autonomy as well as..

• What Are learning meetings?
• How do we Use learning meetings to formulate learning agreements and create accountability.
• Some examples of stuff that we have noticed in our early learning meetings
• Ross shares some honest reflections around being challenged at time
• Dan and Ross both share their excitement and some challenges they may face in our quick fire questions at the end.

As promised In the episode bellow are an example of the questions we are using the frame our learning meetings:

1. What Have been the experiences in this topic so far that could support your learning presentation? 

2. What are you currently doing to support your understanding of this topic? 

3. What would you like to produce for your learning presentation? 

4. How will I produce this and who could support me? 

5. What will be the biggest challenge for me coming up? 

As always we welcome any questions or feedback and you can find us both on twitter at:

Ross - https://twitter.com/_andCoach

Dan - https://twitter.com/MrlycettPE

or linked in at:

Ross Williams and Dan Lycett.

Till next time, Thanks for listening!

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We Cover:

• A reminder about why we are here and what we are trying to do in education. For the full story see

(https://open.acast.com/public/streams/64fade23154f470011478696/episodes/6504259ec7bc5300111961b7.MP3)

• Our first experiences of introducing students to self-directed learning.

• We also look forward to taking students through their first individual learning meetings and discuss the value of Autonomy in learning.

Next week we look into 'learning meating's, co-creating learning agreements with students, So Stay tuned for more Educational ramblings on next weeks long walk up.

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• Who are we
• What is the new Course?
• Why are we sharing the journey?
• Our biggest Challenges
• What are we most excited about The new course

We would love feedback and welcome any questions.

You can find us both On Twitter:

Dan - https://x.com/MrlycettPE?s=20

Ross - https://twitter.com/_andCoach

And on Linked inn

Ross Williams and Dan Lycett.

Enjoy The show!

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