At Primary Futures, we are on a mission to build a better future for primary education.
The future is in your hands!
How are things in primary education? How do we want them to be? And what actions can we take to move us from 'here' to 'there'?
We'd love you to join us in the mission to build a better future for primary education.
We encourage you to share the podcast with your teaching community. Perhaps even listen to it together, pause when an idea particularly resonates or inspires you, discuss it with your fellow educators!
The future is not what we're moving towards. The future is what we inhabit in the present.
Professor Patrick Alexander
And then - come up with an action plan, using our #PrimaryFutures Pledge card.
Share your pledge card by tagging Hamilton Brookes on your preferred social platform.
Meet the host
Ed Finch is a teacher and headteacher with more than twenty years’ experience. He is also a storyteller, celebrant, radio host and occasional writer.
Ed co-created the #BrewEd movement, bringing people together and creating spaces for authentic talk about what really matters in Education. In 2019, the Times Educational Supplement named Ed one of the ten most influential people in Education for the impact of #BrewEd on the national debate.
Ed is passionate about professional agency, about messy curriculum and about the place of the arts right across the school system.
Ed lives in Devon on the edge of Dartmoor and loves walking and swimming on the moor and coast. He is an eager, but sadly limited, ukulele player and linocut artist.
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Production team
- Host: Ed Finch
- Producer: Laura Wilkes, Communicating for Impact
- Executive Producer: Joanna Borysiak, Hamilton Brookes
- Recorded and edited by: Story Ninety-Four
Primary Futures podcast is supported by funding from Oxford Brookes’ Small Knowledge Exchange Awards.