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Hosted by Rachael Snowdon-Poole · education · EN · 41 episodes
The Leadership Lens Free Podcast is your weekly dose of insight, inspiration and practical strategies for school leadership. Each episode gives you bite-sized reflections, tools and ideas to help you grow in confidence and clarity.For those who want to dive deeper, the Premium Hub offers extended training, downloadable resources and exclusive content.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Leadership Lens Free Podcast is your weekly dose of insight, inspiration and practical strategies for school leadership. Each episode gives you bite-sized reflections, tools and ideas to help you grow in confidence and clarity. For those who want to dive deeper, the Premium Hub offers extended training, downloadable resources and exclusive content.
The Leadership Lens is hosted by Rachael Snowdon-Poole. The show has published 41 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Managing Emotionally Heightened Conversations in Schools" (10 May 2026, 32 minutes), "Beyond labels - Getting inclusion right for children known or previously known to social care" (3 May 2026, 38 minutes), and "Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Why Getting the Right People Matters, and Why Keeping Them Matters Even More" (26 April 2026, 41 minutes).
The Leadership Lens publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 36 minutes across 41 episodes.
Booking probability for The Leadership Lens is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Leadership Lens requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Leadership Lens's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Leadership Lens are Schools (K-12) and Educational Support Services. The Leadership Lens has an education audience.
Rachael Snowdon-Poole hosts The Leadership Lens, an education show with 41 episodes published.
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<p>In this episode of The Leadership Lens, we explore the powerful ideas behind Talking to Crazy by Mark Goulston and what school leaders can learn about managing emotionally heightened conversations with parents.</p>...
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<h2>Beyond Labels: Getting Inclusion Right for Children Known or Previously Known to Social Care</h2> <p>In this week’s episode, we explore one of the most important—and often misunderstood—areas of the renewed...
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<p>🎧 The Leadership Lens Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Why Getting the Right People Matters – and Why Keeping Them Matters Even More </p> <p>In this week’s episode, we explore one of the most complex and...
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<p>I Thought We Had Our Personal Development Offer Sorted… Then I Properly Looked at It </p> <p>This week’s episode is an honest reflection on what started as a simple PSHE/RSHE update… and quickly became something much...
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<p>In last week’s episode, I explored why so many school development plans don’t quite do what we hope they will. We looked at the idea that we often focus too heavily on goals, rather than the day-to-day systems and...
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🎙️ The Leadership Lens – Show Notes Episode: Why Most School Development Plans Don't Work and How to Write One That Actually Does Most school development plans look right on paper… but don’t actually change what...
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<p>KCSIE 2026: The Safeguarding Briefing You Actually Need – Part 2 </p> <p>In this episode of The Leadership Lens, we move into Part 5 of the KCSIE 2026 consultation draft.</p> <p>We unpack:</p> <p>The explicit...
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<p>Episode Title: KCSIE 2026: The Safeguarding Briefing You Actually Need This week’s episode cuts through the noise surrounding the draft Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2026 guidance and focuses on what...
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🎧 The Leadership Lens — This Week’s Episode Show Notes This week’s episode tackles one of the most urgent emerging areas for school leaders and DSLs: Generative AI and safeguarding — what leaders actually need to know...
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<p>In this week’s episode of The Leadership Lens, we take a deep dive into the government’s newly published Schools White Paper - 'Every Child Achieving and Thriving' and the wider programme of reform currently shaping...
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<p>This episode came about after I was asked to lead an hour long training session (with out fabulous Trust Inclusion Lead- shout out to Beth!!) with staff in primary and secondary schools on how to create a culture of...
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<h2>The Curriculum Monitoring Blueprint - Sequencing Monitoring Activities for Real Curriculum Impact</h2> <p> </p> <p>Monitoring isn’t a calendar. It isn’t compliance. And it isn’t something you “do” for inspection...
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<p>Half Term Reset: The 1% Shift That Protects Your Leadership The Leadership Lens – Episode 29 February half term is not just a break. It’s a checkpoint. Far enough away from January to see what’s actually stuck. Close...
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<p>🎧 The Leadership Lens</p> <p> Early Writing, Strong Foundations, and the Writing Framework</p> <p>In this episode of The Leadership Lens, we focus on one of the most important — and often least secure — areas of...
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<p>When the Behaviour Policy Isn’t Enough</p> <p>Even in schools where behaviour systems are strong, there is often a small number of pupils whose needs sit outside the universal approach. Their behaviour escalates...
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<p>In this episode, I’m talking about choosing the right interventions for pupils - and especially for pupils with SEND — and why, in so many schools, it can start to feel confusing and over-complicated.</p> <p>In lots...
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<p>SEND has rightly been reframed around 'inclusion' and the Ofsted toolkit echoes this approach through every evaluation area.</p> <p>In this episode, we explore how leaders can ensure that pupils with special...
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<p>Personal development is one of the judgements school leaders talk to me about more than any other — and often with the most uncertainty.</p> <p>Not because schools aren’t doing good work.</p> <p>Not because leaders...
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<p>Over the last few years, staff wellbeing has become one of the most commonly used phrases in education leadership. Yoga after school. Mindfulness apps. Staff breakfasts. Wellbeing days. And yet — teachers and support...
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