Education reading, tested against classroom reality.
From Page to Practice follows conversations with teachers, authors, and others interested in education about what evidence-informed work looks like once it leaves the page. Recent episodes move through creativity, equity, SEND support, geography, CPD, school governance, and parent-school relationships.
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From Page to Practice is an education conversation series about the gap between reading and doing. It starts with books, research, CPD, and professional curiosity, then asks what any of that means in real classrooms and school communities. The result is grounded and specific. Recent episodes show a wide range of education contexts without turning them into a single prescription. Claire Badger talks about leading teaching and learning and about creativity as something that can be noticed, reframed, and developed through small changes. Miriam Hussain brings attention to leadership environments, teacher growth, wellbeing, values, and the conditions that help staff flourish. Jo Blackman discusses CPD, a teaching and learning library, and the importance of allowing staff to find meaningful routes into professional reading. Clara Mason uses Equity in Education to think about relationships, feedback, motivation, capability, and why a strategy can lose power when its purpose is forgotten. Anthony speaks from primary geography, where contextual learning, questions, artifacts, guests, and subject experience all matter. Lucy focuses on SEND support, authentic texts, language access, and the careful work of helping students build comprehension from clues they can actually use. Andrea Baumgartner widens the frame beyond school, reflecting on parents, curriculum awareness, knowledge organisers, and the pleasure of learning with children. The show is calm, conversational, and often self-aware. It is also more concrete than many education discussions, because the recurring question is always what changes in practice. Not every answer is neat. That is part of the value. The conversations leave space for workload, autonomy, school culture, student need, and the difficulty of translating a good idea into a good habit. From Page to Practice is best understood as a working notebook of education thinking spoken aloud. It offers examples, hesitations, and practical language for people trying to connect evidence with the messy realities of teaching, leadership, support, and learning at home.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants education research discussed through classroom practice, school leadership, CPD, SEND support, subject teaching, and parent support. It is especially useful for someone who prefers reflective practitioner conversation over packaged teaching formulas.
What sets it apart: The show’s centre of gravity is translation: how a book, framework, or idea changes when it meets a particular school, class, child, department, or family. Its range of guests keeps the discussion close to lived educational contexts rather than abstract policy talk.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A reflective finale connects evidence-informed practice with the patient, practical work of school governance.
The finale of From Page to Practice closes by looking back at the podcast's interest in evidence-informed education, then widening the frame to the conditions that shape school life.
A grounded conversation on making creativity visible through small changes in everyday classroom practice.
Creativity comes through as a classroom habit, not a grand scheme. Claire Badger, assistant head for teaching and learning at a school in West London, links evidence-based practice to small, visible shifts: watching what students are actually doing, then making tiny adjustments…
A grounded discussion on the conditions that help education staff feel valued, grow well and find work aligned with their values.
Miriam Hussain brings a wide education background to From Page to Practice, spanning Teach First-related roles, assistant headship, governance, lead practitioner work and head of year experience, as well as her current role as a director within a West Midlands trust.
Jo Blackman makes a measured case for research engagement that leaves teachers room to find their own route.
Jo Blackman frames the episode around a grounded problem for schools: how educational research can become part of classroom life without hardening into a script.
A deputy head teacher links evidence, relationships, and motivation to classroom practice.
Clara Mason brings a deputy head teacher's view to From Page to Practice, where the focus is how educational research can make its way into classroom practice.
Psychology teaching, one career story at a time.
Honest school talk with practical stakes.
From Page to Practice closes its run after 87 episodes and close to 75,000 downloads with a conversation about Liam Anderson's school governor role.
Claire Badger says research only matters when teachers can adapt it, and she frames From Page to Practice around that translation problem at a West London school.
["Series 5 Episode 24 of From Page to Practice is one of the podcast's last three episodes, with Rebecca interviewing Miriam Hussain about how educational research becomes classroom practice.", "Miriam, a director in a West Midlands trust, traces her route through Teach First, assistant head, chair of governors, lead practitioner, and head of year before defining 'from page to practice' as adapting CPD to context.", "She uses Dame Sally Coates's Headstrong and Professor Rob Coe's School Environment and Leadership Their Evidence Review to argue that leadership is built on visible routines, codified expectations, and systems that work on the ground.", "The conversation moves into staff buy-in, behaviour, workload, teacher wellbeing, and networks like Lit Drive, ResearchEd, and WomenEd, with Miriam saying schools need support that helps teachers stay and improve."]
Jo Blackman ties Sir William Perkins School's CPD, governance, and Design Technology work to the phrase "from page to practice." Her level 7 senior leadership apprenticeship, funded through the apprenticeship levy, gives her a framework for decision making, forecasting, and prioritisation.
From Page to Practice episode 22 with Clara Mason focuses on applying educational research to classroom practice through her reading of Equity in Education.
Anthony Barlow says 'from page to practice' means applying research and theory to context, and he opens with an Ordnance Survey map as a selected view of place.
From Page to Practice series 5 episode 20 focuses on language teaching, SEND, and how classroom research becomes daily practice.
From Page to Practice host Bec interviews Andrea Baumgartner, a Melbourne lawyer and mother of two who applies educational research to home learning.
Mark Taylor says Education on Fire has run since 2016 and passed 360 episodes, and he links that longevity to practical support for teachers.
Nathan Douglas, a deputy headteacher at a large inner-city primary school in Birmingham, describes a 15-year route through literacy leadership, assistant headship, and deputy headship.
A podcast discussing how to apply educational research and books like Teach Like a Champion in classroom practice.
This episode discusses the book 'The Revision Revolution' and its application in the classroom to improve revision strategies for all students.
A podcast that applies educational reading to classroom practice, featuring a discussion on 'The Complete Guide to Pastoral Leadership' by Amy May Forrester.