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The Independent Schools Association podcast shares advice and information for our Members, from our Members.
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Protecting Childhood: Balancing Ambition, Safety, and Play in Modern Education (opens the original)
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Is modern childhood becoming over-scheduled, over-supervised, and overly focused on the future? In this episode of Independently Speaking, host Helen Stanton-Tonner sits down with leadership from Downsend School: Executive Head Bex Tear, Head of Junior School Sally Johnston, and Head of Little Downsend James McCarthy-Mitchell. Together, they explore how adult anxieties and social pressures shape young lives, and why structured environments must be balanced with unstructured play, risk-taking, an
Values-Led AI Strategy for School Leaders with Ben Whitaker (opens the original)
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In this episode of Independently Speaking, host Helen Stanton-Tonner sits down with education consultant, speaker, and EduFuturists podcast host Ben Whitaker to confront one of the most pressing questions facing modern education: How do we thrive as humans in the age of artificial intelligenceMoving completely away from the "shiny penny" obsession with new apps and prompt engineering, Ben challenges school leaders to stop treating AI as an IT problem to be handled by a technical department. Inst
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