Swindon Festival Of Literature Kate Clanchy

Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me – with KATE CLANCHY

What is the role of teachers and education? Is school the best and right place to change the world? What should you say and not say in the classroom? How does a teacher get the best out of children, help them find their voice, and produce work of breathtaking brilliance?

Novelist, prize-winning poet, teacher, and writer, Kate Clanchy MBE is the author of Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, a book about her experience of teaching in state schools. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and Philip Pullman reckons that ‘No one has said better so much of what so badly needs saying' and that it is ‘the best book on teachers, children, and writing that I've ever read.’

Teaching today is all too often demeaned, diminished, and drastically under-resourced. This book and Kate’s experiences show why it should not be.