As Principal of rural comprehensive Ansford Academy, Shonogh Pilgrim spent the last 7 years designing for and around student agency. We discuss how the pandemic accelerated the move toward giving students independence, why every school should have a flexi schooling option and an entirely different approach to student exclusion.

This episode is sponsored by SMART Technologies: https://www.smarttech.com/education/profile

Show notes:
More about Ansford Academy: https://www.ansford.org.uk/
More about Whole Education: https://www.wholeeducation.org/about-us/
More about Ansford’s coaching model: https://www.wholeeducation.org/watch-how-ansford-academy-develops-student-agency-and-independence-with-coaching/
More about Kunskapsskolan: http://kunskapsskolan.com/aboutus.4.1d96c045153756b0c14d5714.html
Favourite book about learning: ‘Craft of the Classroom’, Michael Marland https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3272096-craft-of-the-classroom
Favourite book: ‘Start With Why’, Simon Sinek, https://simonsinek.com/product/start-with-why/