23rd August 2021Podcast

As schools across the country prepare for the new academic year, the Centre’s podcast Conversations on Character welcomes Director of Academies at United learning, Patron of the NCS and Chair of the 2016 Coats review of prison education, Dame Sally Coates.

A School leader for over twenty years in a variety of schools across the country, Dame Sally reflects with host Dr. Tom Harrison on how teachers have responded and continue to respond to the pressures of the pandemic, how she transformed behaviour standards in the schools she has led through a focus on role modelling and the place of character in the rehabilitative education of prisoners, five years on from the review which she led.

Listen now here.