Hywel Roberts

Teacher, Writer and Storyteller based in the UK

Workshop Information:

Leadership can be an isolating and challenging role. This session will encourage new (and perhaps experienced) leaders to view their roles with fresh eyes. It will be positive and joyful.

In this session, Hywel will share a manifesto of promising imaginative leadership. 

Too often children and colleagues can be 'delivered to' by leaders. We need to rally against that. We should see ourselves as 'transformational' professionals.

Hywel will combine narratives of leadership, learning and joy, that are embedded in genuine research and lived experience. Hywel will also share his ideas around 'botheredness', and its key principle that if children feel part of a community, they won't drop out. 

The session will be research-informed, warm, useful, and grounded in optimism. 

Session Outcomes: 

1. Colleagues will leave with a renewed vigour and enthusiasm for their role

2. Strategies and thinking to be applied on return to school

3. The importance of being a 'warm demander'

4. The roles of professional imagination, grounded optimism, orientated spontaneity, and phronesis, in developing leadership

Biograhpy

Hywel is an experienced teacher in Special, Primary and Secondary settings, nationally and internationally. He is recognised as an in-demand speaker, writer, humourist, and pedagogy philosopher. Hywel specialises in using Drama approaches and storytelling in classrooms.

His books include ‘Oops! Getting Children to Learn Accidentally’, ‘Uncharted Territories’ (written with Dr Debra Kidd) and ‘Botheredness’

He was recently described as ‘..a world leader in enthusiasm’.

He also runs a brewery.

www.botheredness.co.uk

Ian McMillan, writer and broadcaster on the book ‘Botheredness’: This book places teaching where it should be: at the centre of a nexus of art and science and thoughtfulness and resourcefulness and practicality and dreaming and love. This is a book for all teachers and, let’s face it, all human beings. Read it and grow.