It leaves as five — structure, transformation, knowledge, space, thought. Prism Talks is where practitioners and researchers meet inside the fracture, and where English teaching for disadvantaged learners is looked at through a lens built for it.
Head of English. Doctoral researcher.
The answer became a framework — the Prism of Pedagogy, five facets, one lens, built from real classrooms rather than borrowed theory. Prism Talks is where it gets tested out loud.
She writes at Rewriting Our World, speaks at ResearchED and IPDA, and has spent a career refusing the idea that "disadvantaged" has to mean "diminished."
Not a ladder. A lens.
Prism Talks starts as one voice and five facets. It will not stay that way.
A podcast first — solo, deliberate, one framework tested against real classrooms. Then letters, in writing, for the space that audio can't hold. Then a network of practitioners and researchers, meeting where the light splits.
Not a ladder. A lens.
One letter, every fortnight. No noise, no filler — just the thinking behind the next episode.