Education Heroes
Spotlighting educators who make a difference to learners every day.
The Education Heroes Podcast shares the stories of heroic educators with a focus on their professional journey. Our guests share insights, ideas, opinions and stories that will resonate with our listeners and hopefully inspire some new ideas or make professional decisions easier. We invite education heroes from around the world and from many different roles including principals, head teachers, leaders, teachers and ed-tech leaders.
Hosted by Paul Sibson, Co-founder and CEO of Hero, a software solution for schools with a mission to foster student agency, communicate learning and encourage best practice pedagogy.
Education Heroes
Ben Witheford - Values-aligned Leadership
Today’s guest on the Education Heroes Podcast is Ben Witheford, Principal of Shotover Primary School in Queenstown. With over 25 years in the education game and the last 16 as a Principal, he has a keen interest in creating environments that enable professionals to do their work. Ben is highly skilled in building effective teams, coaching, authentic curriculum design and building coherent, learning-focussed cultures, which all shine through in this conversation.
In this episode, Ben chats to Paul about his interesting journey to Principalship, his honest experience as a leader of a brand new, high-growth school, and shares helpful coaching tools he uses with his team.
Connect with Ben on LinkedIn.
Links
- Discover Hero for Schools
- Follow Hero on Twitter @Heroforschools
- Follow Paul on Twitter @sibsonp
- Connect with Hero on LinkedIn
The Education Heroes Podcast is hosted by Paul Sibson, Co-founder and CEO of Hero.
If you know a heroic leader in the education space, or would like to share your own leadership journey with listeners, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us at podcast@linc-ed.com.
