Shaun Allison

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Mind the Gap: Making Education Work Across the Globe · Making Every Lesson Continue to Count (11 Years Later) with Shaun Allison and Andy Tharby, Mind the Gap, Ep.126 (S6,E24) · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

So yeah, that's me.

And I'm a science teacher as well, Tom.

I forgot to mention that, of course.

And uh and I still teach science as well.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, we did uh

We did Teach Meets when everyone was really excited about Teach Meets, but then kind of stopped doing them because it was I don't know, they were the they were a bit um odd, weren't they, Teach Meets?

Because it sounds like a really nice idea, but then nobody really checked what people were going to come up and talk about.

And a lot of them unfortunately talked about a load of old nonsense.

Um you know, so it was it was uh you know, it was a lovely movement and uh, you know, I think the idea and the ethos behind it was absolutely lovely.

But um I'm not sure about the kind of credibility.

And then research sheds came along.

Um and we did a r uh was it a research meet that we did, Andy?

I think something like that.

Well, Tom, the official line is helping teachers and leaders to break the link between family income and attainment.

That's what research schools do.

Um no, you you're you're absolutely right.

You know, we could um you mentioned your your blog actually and uh you you kind of skitted over it very quickly, but it

That was very influential to us back in the day.

You know, there were a few very

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