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Naylor's Natter is the brainchild of Phil Naylor , created initially to share musings on evidence, research and CPD. The podcast has grown significantly since its first episode in early 2019 and is now proudly independent. We have no sponsorship or affiliation.
As the podcast has evolved so has its reach, we feel passionately about diversity of opinion and representation of our profession. To ensure we better reflect teaching , we are now proud to add more hosts to the podcast. Opinions are guests and hosts alone.
Latest episodes

Apr 30, 2021 • 1h 6min
TDT Takeover April
Naylor’s Natter TDT Takeover Show Notes
In this month’s TDT Takeover of Naylor’s Natter, we’re talking leadership, communication, and wellbeing with TDT CEO, David Weston @informed_edu, Barham Primary School Headteacher, Karen Giles @MsKarenGiles and MalCPD Director, Mal Krishnasamy @MalCPD
We are also delighted to announce that TDT have been appointed by the Department for Education in England to be a new Lead provider for the new suite of National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) for school leadership. Find out more and sign up to get more information about delivering or participating in the new TDT National Professional Qualifications: https://bit.ly/3u3zCIn
Download our working paper 'A Culture of improvement': https://tdtrust.org/coi/
Find out more about our Pedagogical Coaching Programme: https://tdtrust.org/pedagogical-coaching/
Sign up to our monthly newsletter to stay up to date with all things CPD: https://tdtrust.org/newsletter/

Apr 24, 2021 • 52min
Those who can, teach with Andria Zafirakou, MBE. The winner of the 2018 Global Teacher Prize
Andria Zafirakou, a teacher at Alperton Community School in Brent, won $1 million when she was crowned the best teacher in the world by the Varkey Foundation.
Andria was born in north-west London to Greek-Cypriot parents and state-educated in Brent and Camden.
She is an art and textiles teacher in Brent on the outskirts of London, one of the world’s most ethnically diverse places. She is passionate about education and changing the lives of young people and underserved communities through creativity.
She has worked her entire teaching career of 14 years at Alperton Community School and was promoted to Deputy Head of Art within a year of her arrival. She is now Associate Deputy Headteacher leading on staff professional development.
Using the prize money awarded by the Global Teacher prize, Andria founded a charity called Artists in Residence (AiR) with an aim to improve arts education in schools.
Andria has also been named in the top ten of The Evening Standard's 1000 Londoners List, a list of the most influential people in London. She is a Culture Leader for the World Economic Forum's as well as a member of their Global Future Leaders Council.
Andria sits on the Advisory board for the Cultural Leaders Alliance.

Apr 3, 2021 • 55min
EdTech Evidence and Research and the work of Just Like Us for LGBT+ young people
EdTech evidence discussion with: Dan Sandhu, co-founder of the EdTech Evidence Group and CEO of Sparx - @DanSandhu - dan.sandhu@sparx.co.uk Murray Morrison, co-founder of the EdTech Evidence Group and CEO of Tassomai - @Tassomai - murray@tassomai.com Details for EdTech Evidence Group - https://www.edtechevidence.com/
Just like us The charity for LGBT+ young people – we work directly with schools and colleges to make education more inclusive through school talks, our Pride Groups programme and School Diversity Week. Chief Exec Dominic Arnall chats to Phil

Mar 27, 2021 • 53min
TDT Takeover March
This month's TDT Takeover
In this week's TDT Takeover edition of the Naylor's Natter podcast, we discuss the importance, impact and future of EdTech for teaching with TDT's Head of Education, Maria Cunningham, TDT Project Officer, Dave Price and Lampton School's Head of English, Richard Iglikowski-Broad.
Download our working paper 'A Culture of improvement' and sign up for our upcoming video unpicking the findings with authors Maria Cunningham and Bethan Hindley: https://tdtrust.org/coi/
Sign up to our monthly newsletter to stay up to date with all things CPD: https://tdtrust.org/newsletter/

Mar 27, 2021 • 46min
Roma Dhameja on Student Voice in a Diverse World
Roma has been in education for 9 years now after a career in Marketing. She started her blog noonetoldmehowtodothis.com Through it, she shares ideas, reviews, discusses Leadership and Professional development and generally hashes out thoughts to help her navigate the world of education. Through the blog she has found an incredible and supportive community on Twitter.
Roma has been championing student voice for the past 5 years and believes that many of the answers to our most pressing questions in education can come through collaboration with students who have learnt the value of collective responsibility

Mar 20, 2021 • 50min
Dave McPartlin on Daring to Dream
Who is Dave McPartlin?
Dave McPartlin is the head teacher at Flakefleet Primary School.
He gained notoriety when he and his students blew away judges and reached the finals on Britain's Got Talent in 2019.
Before becoming head of Flakefleet Primary School, he was previously headteacher at St.Peter's CE Primary School in Lancashire.
Dave and his students trail-blazed all the way to the finals, narrowly losing out on the coveted prize to Chelsea pensioner, Colin Thackery.
His school's first performance was a rendition of Queen's hit Don't Stop Me Now.
It brought judge David Walliams to tears, landed them a golden buzzer and an automatic place in the semi-final.
Walliams said: "One of the most joyous things I have ever seen, full of unbridled joy, you’re a great teacher, you’re a great, great teacher."

Mar 20, 2021 • 56min
Teacher Hug Book Club - Naylor's Natter Takeover
Featuring conversations with teachers and authors .
Please be aware this contains natural breaks where adverts come in during live show.

Mar 13, 2021 • 54min
Halil Tamgumus (Mr T) on leadership, representation, diversity and back to school
Join Phil for this uplifting conversation with the wonderful Halil Tamgumus (Mr T). We take in:
Leadership
Growing up
Back to school
positives of social media
Phil and High Noon's Vinyl Suite
and we pick Halil's top 3 music choices that define him and his career.
Genuinely, one of the best we've done!

Feb 26, 2021 • 45min
TDT February Takeover
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Feb 19, 2021 • 1h 20min
Magic Weaving with Sir John Jones
There is a small and select band of educational professionals in the UK who have not only had their achievements recognised in the New Year’s Honours List, but who are also able to inspire others with their outstanding knowledge, passion and enthusiasm – Sir John Jones is one.
Knighted in 2003 for his services to education, Sir John worked most of his professional life in challenging schools across the North West of England, his last post being the head-teacher of a large secondary school in Merseyside.
His achievements and reputation for straight talking, leadership and creativity led him to be invited onto various organizations, panels and think tanks including the National College for School Leadership, the DfES’ Leadership Development Unit, the Teacher Development Agency’s National Remodelling Unit and visiting posts with both Manchester and Liverpool Universities.Principles
Sir John is:
I am committed to making a difference in the lives of individuals and in the sustained development of organisations by:
Using fully my experience and knowledge.
Helping people and organisations develop their vision for the future.
Promoting collaboration within and between organisations.
Teaching the power of positive goal-setting through hope and optimism.
Enabling organisations to find their own solutions that work.
Building capacity for sustainability.
Providing on-going support from planning through to the realisation of the vision.
Types of work
Work in which John has been engaged:
Presentations to groups of varying sizes and compositions, tailored specifically to the needs of the audience.
Extensive follow-up work to ensure that any ideas are developed and embedded.
Consultancy work on a full range of issues facing organisations, from short, technical consultancies to extended whole-organisation improvement processes.
Research on all aspects of leadership and management in order to improve and enhance current practice.
Support for action research projects.
Commissioned bid-writing for Local Authorities.
Chairing think tanks and leadership development groups
The book:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Weaving-Business-Finding-Learning-Teaching/dp/0956376029/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=59057008211&dchild=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAgc-ABhA7EiwAjev-j6VVlqLAD-bM8jUe7ZsWZ7lCIvVAOBRXU2MWaazAcIEfYcauHbPfVRoCAlAQAvD_BwE&hvadid=259059100500&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9046715&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=1801148813880316383&hvtargid=kwd-314451253387&hydadcr=10808_1789872&keywords=the+magic+weaving+business&qid=1611921368&sr=8-1&tag=googhydr-21