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🎙️ Podcast on 🏢 Michaela School run by "Britain's Strictest Headmistress", Katharine Birbalsingh 📏 hosted by 3️⃣ Teacher/Researchers
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🎧 Graded Podcast focuses on Michaela Community School. We ask what learning, behaviour, and social justice should look like. Interviews with an ex-student, Katharine Birbalsingh, Prof Stephen Ball, Tom Bennett, Prof Diane Reay, Andreas Schleicher (OECD/PISA) +more🏫 linktr.ee/yap.productions
NEW INTERVIEW
Kadra Abdinasir is Associate Director for Policy @centreformh.bsky.social She speaks about highly punitive schools impact on young people’s mental health. So much important research and thoughtful insights + race, behaviourism, sanctions.
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Kadra Abdinasir is Associate Director for Policy @centreformh.bsky.social She speaks about highly punitive schools impact on young people’s mental health. So much important research and thoughtful insights + race, behaviourism, sanctions.
Listen here:
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December 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
NEW INTERVIEW
Kadra Abdinasir is Associate Director for Policy @centreformh.bsky.social She speaks about highly punitive schools impact on young people’s mental health. So much important research and thoughtful insights + race, behaviourism, sanctions.
Listen here:
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Kadra Abdinasir is Associate Director for Policy @centreformh.bsky.social She speaks about highly punitive schools impact on young people’s mental health. So much important research and thoughtful insights + race, behaviourism, sanctions.
Listen here:
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NEW EP - The Future
This 1 has quite a few 🔥takes...
We discuss whether Michaela sets young people up for success - the ex-student had a lot to say on this topic. Interviews with Andreas Schleicher, Stephen Ball, Katharine Birbalsingh and Chloe Combi.
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This 1 has quite a few 🔥takes...
We discuss whether Michaela sets young people up for success - the ex-student had a lot to say on this topic. Interviews with Andreas Schleicher, Stephen Ball, Katharine Birbalsingh and Chloe Combi.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
NEW EP - The Future
This 1 has quite a few 🔥takes...
We discuss whether Michaela sets young people up for success - the ex-student had a lot to say on this topic. Interviews with Andreas Schleicher, Stephen Ball, Katharine Birbalsingh and Chloe Combi.
linktr.ee/yap.producti...
This 1 has quite a few 🔥takes...
We discuss whether Michaela sets young people up for success - the ex-student had a lot to say on this topic. Interviews with Andreas Schleicher, Stephen Ball, Katharine Birbalsingh and Chloe Combi.
linktr.ee/yap.producti...
Our hosts spoke about an artwork by Palle Nielsen called The Model (1968), in which young people built their own structure and learnt through play, and discussed what it might tell us about education for creativity.
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Have you listen to our Creativity Episode yet? Here the Graded hosts discuss an artwork by Palle Nielson (The Model, 1968) and the place of ‘play’ in its creation
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November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Our hosts spoke about an artwork by Palle Nielsen called The Model (1968), in which young people built their own structure and learnt through play, and discussed what it might tell us about education for creativity.
Watch here:
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Prof Diane Reay (University of Cambridge) on Michaela out now.
Some key phrases from the interview:
"Docile workers"
"Civilising the masses"
"Missionary zeal"
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Some key phrases from the interview:
"Docile workers"
"Civilising the masses"
"Missionary zeal"
Listen here:
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November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Prof Diane Reay (University of Cambridge) on Michaela out now.
Some key phrases from the interview:
"Docile workers"
"Civilising the masses"
"Missionary zeal"
Listen here:
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Some key phrases from the interview:
"Docile workers"
"Civilising the masses"
"Missionary zeal"
Listen here:
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🚨 Diane Reay interview out tomorrow
Diane is a highly influential prof of education at Cambridge. She doesn’t hold back in her challenges to Michaela’s approach and her concerns about what their model means for education.
Recent/related blog @lseblogs.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
Diane is a highly influential prof of education at Cambridge. She doesn’t hold back in her challenges to Michaela’s approach and her concerns about what their model means for education.
Recent/related blog @lseblogs.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
The chronic miseducation of working class children in the UK
A regime of “teaching to the test”, harsh discipline and a narrow curriculum is robbing working class children of a good education and tools for self-expression
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November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
🚨 Diane Reay interview out tomorrow
Diane is a highly influential prof of education at Cambridge. She doesn’t hold back in her challenges to Michaela’s approach and her concerns about what their model means for education.
Recent/related blog @lseblogs.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
Diane is a highly influential prof of education at Cambridge. She doesn’t hold back in her challenges to Michaela’s approach and her concerns about what their model means for education.
Recent/related blog @lseblogs.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
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I have been thinking about this tweet from Katharine Birbalsingh for a while, where she says how eloquent Zia Yusuf is. It doesn’t feel great to me…
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I have been thinking about this tweet from Katharine Birbalsingh for a while, where she says how eloquent Zia Yusuf is. It doesn’t feel great to me…
🎭📷🤸 Ep on Creativity at Michaela out now
Does silence, no excuses, and this highly punitive environment help Michaela students to feel safe enough to explore, or limit their creativity?
Find out what we think here:
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Does silence, no excuses, and this highly punitive environment help Michaela students to feel safe enough to explore, or limit their creativity?
Find out what we think here:
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November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🎭📷🤸 Ep on Creativity at Michaela out now
Does silence, no excuses, and this highly punitive environment help Michaela students to feel safe enough to explore, or limit their creativity?
Find out what we think here:
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Does silence, no excuses, and this highly punitive environment help Michaela students to feel safe enough to explore, or limit their creativity?
Find out what we think here:
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🚨🚨Ep 4 CREATIVITY out tomorrow! 🎭🎨🤸
Does Michaela help young people feel safe enough to explore ideas, or are the boundaries so strict that they stop them thinking outside the box?
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Does Michaela help young people feel safe enough to explore ideas, or are the boundaries so strict that they stop them thinking outside the box?
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November 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨🚨Ep 4 CREATIVITY out tomorrow! 🎭🎨🤸
Does Michaela help young people feel safe enough to explore ideas, or are the boundaries so strict that they stop them thinking outside the box?
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Does Michaela help young people feel safe enough to explore ideas, or are the boundaries so strict that they stop them thinking outside the box?
🎧Follow us👇
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Ep1 (Learning) of Graded goes inside Katharine Birbalsingh's Michaela to unpack its routines, small-c conservative values, + curriculum.
Young people face forwards all lesson. Every hand up.
Is this love of learning – or immaculate compliance?
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Young people face forwards all lesson. Every hand up.
Is this love of learning – or immaculate compliance?
Listen here:
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November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Ep1 (Learning) of Graded goes inside Katharine Birbalsingh's Michaela to unpack its routines, small-c conservative values, + curriculum.
Young people face forwards all lesson. Every hand up.
Is this love of learning – or immaculate compliance?
Listen here:
🎧 linktr.ee/yap.producti...
Young people face forwards all lesson. Every hand up.
Is this love of learning – or immaculate compliance?
Listen here:
🎧 linktr.ee/yap.producti...
🎧 Graded Podcast focuses on Michaela Community School. We ask what learning, behaviour, and social justice should look like. Interviews with an ex-student, Katharine Birbalsingh, Prof Stephen Ball, Tom Bennett, Prof Diane Reay, Andreas Schleicher (OECD/PISA) +more🏫 linktr.ee/yap.productions
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November 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🎧 Graded Podcast focuses on Michaela Community School. We ask what learning, behaviour, and social justice should look like. Interviews with an ex-student, Katharine Birbalsingh, Prof Stephen Ball, Tom Bennett, Prof Diane Reay, Andreas Schleicher (OECD/PISA) +more🏫 linktr.ee/yap.productions