Powerful Curriculum

Powerful Curriculum


Latest Episodes

Episode 5: Dawn Cox and Louise Hutton on looking for good RE, the future of the subject and disciplinary lenses
April 07, 2021

The fifth episode of series 1 is a conversation with Louise Hutton and Dawn Cox who have recently written Making Every RE Lesson Count, a book all about teaching good RE. We talk about what good RE looks like, how we might use different disciplinary lense

Episode 4: Mark Enser on powerful geography, avant garde fieldwork and useless knowledge
March 24, 2021

This week I'm joined by geography teacher and author-extraordinaire Mark Enser. Mark is a secondary geography teacher in Sussex and the author of books like Making Every Geography Lesson Count, Powerful Geography and Teach Like Nobody's Watching. He joins

Episode 3: Mike Hill on worldbuilding in History, meaningful historical knowledge and In Our Time
March 17, 2021

The third episode of series 1 is a discussion with Mike Hill who teaches History at a secondary school in north-west London. We talk about the place of History on the British curriculum, the way theorising the curriculum has aided the subject, the concept

Episode 2: Neil Almond on the box set curriculum and the pitfalls and highlights of the primary foundation subjects
March 10, 2021

The second episode of series 1 is an episode with Neil Almond who teaches primary and works on the primary curriculum in London. We talk about the metaphor of the box set curriculum and just how far that will stretch and the pit falls and highlights of te

Episode 1: Joe Kinnaird on using scholarship in class, the power of RE and writing essays in KS3
March 02, 2021

The first episode of Series 1 of Powerful Knowledge is an interview with Joe Kinnaird who teaches RE in a secondary school in East London. We talk about the power of a knowledge-rich, multi-disciplinary RE curriculum, about Joe's work bringing scholarship