The International Schools Podcast

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Saturday Jun 24, 2023

102 - A conversation with Angela Newton and Peter Gravell Co-Founders of RealFastReports

Saturday Jun 24, 2023

Angela and Peter educators and now entrepreneurs share their journey around the transition to starting a company focused on report writing and leveraging new AI technologies to save teachers time, improve workload and enhance the quality of feedback to students and parents. We explore why such a company, the challenges and opportunities of using artificial intelligence in delivering an educators service and learnings from the experience.

About Angela Newton

Angela is Co-Founder of Real Fast Reports - an AI-powered report writing tool that helps teachers to write better school reports, faster. She is an established education professional with experience across the education landscape.

She started out as a teacher, working in a range of secondary school contexts across London as a Chemistry teacher and Head of Faculty..

Alongside developing and growing Real Fast Reports, she is a policy and delivery advisor at the Department for Education, with special interest in social mobility, support for vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young people, and early help to improve educational and health outcomes.

Angela Newton on Social Media

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/newtonangela

Twitter: @newton_angie

About Peter Gravell

Peter is the Co-Founder of Real Fast Reports, an AI-powered tool that is revolutionizing school reports.

As a former teacher, timetabler, and Head of Science in top UK and international schools, Peter understands the challenges educators face. He’s also a parent of two, so he has experienced reports from a parent’s perspective.

An experienced programmer and Google Certified Innovator, Peter co-founded Real Fast Reports with Angela after recognizing the potential of GPT-3, a precursor to ChatGPT.

Based in Gran Canaria, Peter remains focused on creating innovative tools that enable educators to thrive and enrich students' academic experiences.

Peter Gravell on Social Media

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petergravell

Resources

Website: realfastreports.com

Twitter: @realfastreports

John Mikton on Social Media

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https://smithvisualizations.com/

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Saturday Jun 10, 2023

101 - Leveraging and understanding the power of Data with Chris Smith

Saturday Jun 10, 2023

Data and information have become a critical component to leading and managing international schools. Understanding the data and more importantly getting it into a format and visual representation that all stakeholders can understand and engage with comes with challenges and opportunities Chris Smith shares his experiences supporting schools, the technology behind the data, and how this process supports schools to be agile and responsive to changes and needs of the school community.

About Chris Smith

Chris is an academic data specialist for school leaders and educators. He helps them make sense of their data by turning it into information that informs effective decision-making.

Chris has worked with clients such as Bedford School District, Singapore American School, Yongsan International School Seoul, Dallas Independent Schools, and Ferndale School District. He has coached and trained nearly 300 educators through his online synchronous and self-paced courses. Chris leads teams through data literacy, data visualization, and dashboard design workshops for organizations such as Apps Events and 21st Century Learning International using Google Workspace tools such as Google Sheets and Looker Studio.

Chris has 25 years of experience in education. Starting off as an elementary classroom teacher for 17 years, he moved into an educational technology coaching role and eventually found himself helping others be more efficient with their work around data analysis and data literacy. Chris holds a master’s in educational leadership from California State University, data science certification from Harvard Business School, and data visualization certification from Cornell University.

When not jamming out on spreadsheet formulas and chart elements, Chris can be found ascending punchy climbs and bombing down drops in the jungle on his mountain bike.

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Chris Smith on Social Media

Twitter: https://twitter.com/smithrchris

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smithvisualizations/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smithviz

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smithrchris/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@smithviz

Resources

https://courses.smithvisualizations.com/

https://appsevents.com/data-studio-course

John Mikton on Social Media

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Saturday Jun 03, 2023

100 - 100th episode conversation with Dan and John

Saturday Jun 03, 2023

100 hundred conversations, 100+ guests who have come to share their story, learning, challenges and interests. Dan and I spend a few moments reflecting on how this podcast started in June 2019, some of the themes, focus areas, and reflection of the podcast and the times we live in. Thank you to the generosity and kindness of our guests. A huge shout out to our audience for your support and taking the time to listen, we both are most grateful. Ready for the next 100! Tune in with us!

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Creative Schools, Revolutionising Education from the Ground Up

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Saturday May 27, 2023

99 - Conversation with Brett Gray, Director The Ostrava International School

Saturday May 27, 2023

Brett shares his journey founding and leading a small international school in Ostrava in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. As Director of the first IB Continuum World School in the country, Brett gives us insights to his struggles with the Czech state school system, and what he has been fighting for as a teacher and educational entrepreneur for over 30 years: Leading a Mission-driven school at a time of great local and global change.

About Brett Gray

Brett Gray is the Founder and Director of TOIS - The Ostrava International School, Czech Republic.

Armed with a Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism and French from the University of Southern California, Brett arrived in post-communist Czechoslovakia in January 1991 with plans to write news articles about the Czech transition to democracy, and teach English on the side - for perhaps 6 months, a year at most.

Thirty-two years later he finds himself leading the only International Baccalaureate Continuum World School in the Czech Republic, and a devout believer in the principles of the IB as a foundation for education and support of Civil Society.

Over that time, Brett has confronted the challenges and opportunities inherent in creating a truly internationally accredited school in a region that desperately needs one, but doesn’t quite understand why, including; the local, regional and national politics of Czech education; the economics of a region transitioning out of heavy industry into an unknown future; the opening of a culture and way of thinking that had been sequestered behind the Iron Curtain for over 40 years, and on and on.

Brett is also a founding member and current Board Chair of ACES - the Association of Central European IB Schools, with 43 members across 12 countries working together to implement the best of IB practices, many of whom are also facing the challenges of moving beyond the traditional approaches to education in their national systems.

Brett Gray on Social Media

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brett-gray-8b6bb4171

Facebook: www.facebook.com/TOISWORLDSCHOOL/

Web: www.tois.world

Email: brett@tois.world

Resources

Books:

Vaclav Havel: Letters to Olga

Simon Sinek: Start with Why

Sir Ken Robinson:

Patrick Lencioni: The Advantage

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