Practical thinking for boys' schools.
Exploring Boys' Education treats boys' schooling as practical work: schedules, phones, sport, green spaces, peer support, and adult relationships. Its conversations stay close to school life, with IBSC educators and guests connecting research language to decisions teachers and leaders can actually make.
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Exploring Boys' Education is a professional IBSC podcast about the everyday systems that shape boys' lives in school. Its recent run is wide, but not scattered. Sport, wellbeing, phones, deepfakes, green spaces, classroom agency, peer relationships, and online influence all return to one central question: what conditions help boys grow well? The show often begins from a concrete school problem. A boy is pulled between sport, academics, arts, and recovery. A school rethinks phones, recess, choice blocks, and clubs. Educators confront deepfakes and the fading boundary between real and fake media. A wellbeing team tries to make support visible before distress becomes a crisis. From there, the conversations move toward practice. The language is formal, but the concerns are immediate. Listeners hear about schedules, coaching communication, personal best goals, outdoor play, student affairs teams, adult vulnerability, and digital discernment. The show is careful with institutional context, naming IBSC roles, member schools, conferences, research reports, and professional development opportunities. It also has a clear moral center. Boys are treated as whole students rather than academic units, athletes, risks, or data points. That makes the series useful when the topic is tense, especially around deepfakes, online radicalization, misogyny, and shame. The better answer, the show repeatedly suggests, is not panic or avoidance. It is trusted adult presence, clearer structures, peer connection, and a willingness to ask boys sincere questions. Exploring Boys' Education works best as a practical companion for school leaders, teachers, coaches, and wellbeing staff who want language and examples for improving the daily architecture of boys' education.
Made for: Suits a listener who works with boys in schools and wants grounded examples of wellbeing support, teaching practice, school routines, and digital literacy. It also suits education leaders looking for language that connects research with daily school decisions.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by keeping its focus on boys' schools as lived systems: timetables, coaching cultures, playgrounds, phone policies, peer support, and adult trust. Its editorial weight comes from IBSC's school network and repeated attention to implementable practice.
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A grounded conversation about school sport and the boy's whole week.
Exploring Boys Education moves the idea of high performance away from Saturday results and into the crowded weekly life of a boy. Bruce Collins, IBSC Director of Membership Engagement, speaks with Chris Ekron, formerly Head of Sports Performance at Bishops in Cape Town and now…
A focused look at why deepfake literacy has to go beyond spotting visual clues.
Exploring Boys' Education treats the deepfake problem as more than a tech scare, using it to ask what boys need when the line between real and fake keeps getting harder to see.
A grounded look at one school reshaping the day around movement, autonomy, and human connection.
The Boy-Friendly School frames a post-pandemic reset as a practical design question: what happens when the school day is shaped around boys' developmental needs?
A practical discussion of positive belief, personal-best goals and relational support as tools for better school practice.
Boys' well-being is framed as part of everyday school practice, not a broad slogan. Bruce Collins speaks with Professor Andrew Martin from the University of New South Wales about the latest IBSC Global Research Report, shaped by participation from more than 40 IBSC schools.
A school green space becomes a grounded lesson in belonging, wellbeing, and shared purpose.
A green patch gives this PlayNext episode a clear, grounded way into boys' wellbeing, belonging, and the value of making something together. Bruce Collins speaks with Melinda Baguana, Specialist Environmental Educator at Trinity Grammar School in Sydney, about action research…
A concise, human-centered look at how boys' schools can respond to change with care, connection, and purposeful practice.
The 2025 IBSC Highlight Reel follows a year of conversations and PD programs on boys' education, centering on a clear question: how should schools respond as the ways people share information keep shifting?
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Small habit changes meet hands-on AI experiments.
Exploring Boys' Education S7/Ep.05 pairs Bruce Collins with Chris Ekron, the former Head of Sports Performance at Bishops in Cape Town, to rethink high performance in boys' school sport.
Harris says about 90% of deepfake sexual-abuse victims in the United States are female and about 90% of perpetrators are boys, and he says shame makes boys slow to disclose when they are targeted.
Boys' Latin School of Maryland responds to a post-pandemic reset by combining a door-to-door cell phone ban with a school-day redesign built around play, choice, and mentoring.
["Exploring Boys' Education uses IBSC's latest Global Research Report to turn boys' academic and social-emotional wellbeing into a practical school blueprint.", "Bruce Collins speaks with Professor Andrew Martin of the University of New South Wales, who says the project started with 7,500 boys' survey responses from more than 40 IBSC schools.", "The episode focuses on positive belief, relational support, autonomy support, and quality instruction, with process goals, personal best goals, and the \"I do, we do, you do\" model as concrete tools.", "Martin's closing message is to do fewer things better, keep high but attainable expectations, and stay in a boy's orbit with explicit support."]
Melinda Baguana, a Specialist Environmental Educator at Trinity Grammar School in Sydney, describes 26 boys aged 7 to 12 building a biodiversity pond over eight weeks for IBSC.
Exploring Boys' Education's S6/Ep.10 highlight reel brings together Bruce Collins, IBSC Executive Director Tom Batty, and educators discussing boys' education in 2025.
Exploring Boys Education S6/Ep.09, “Boys, Breath, and Balance,” examines Tracy McKenzie’s well-being work at St Andrews College in Makanda, South Africa.
John Boddy, Head of School at the Browning School in New York City, reflects on Netflix's four-episode Adolescence and its portrayal of online radicalization, boyhood, and familial trauma.
Exploring Boys' Education examines online gambling and sports betting among boys' school communities through Bruce Collins's conversation with Saul Malik.
Exploring Boys' Education examines technology and boys' developing brains through Bruce Collins's interview with Catherine Burkett, whose background includes educational psychology and the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics.
This episode explores how digital selfless portraits can foster cognitive empathy in 8th grade boys, featuring Corey Brown's IBSC Action Research Project.
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A highlight reel of season 3 conversations on boys' education, featuring a preview of the IBSC Annual Conference at St.
This episode discusses the importance of teaching boys about consent, focusing on affirmative and enthusiastic consent, and empowering them to become upstanders in social settings.
IBSC leaders discuss the future of boys' education and the upcoming annual conference.