Prism Talks
A podcast & practitioner network

Light enters
as one thing.

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.

Shez Russell

Shez Russell teaches English. She also builds the tools to teach it better.

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.

Structure
What the classroom asks of a body before it asks anything of a mind.
Transformation
The moment teaching stops being delivery and starts being change.
Knowledge
Whose knowing counts in an English classroom — and who decided that.
Space
The room shapes the thought before the lesson ever does.
Thought
Where every facet returns to the person doing the thinking.

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.

Get each turn of the prism before it's recorded.

One letter, every fortnight. No noise, no filler — just the thinking behind the next episode.