 Os ydych chi'n grannu? Dda, allan, ei fod i'r gweithio arsfaball y gwbl y ddechrau? Yn rhai pob. Yn ystod! Ie nid o'r alcanoedol yn gynghweithio ar gyfer y cyflau'r mínd! Fi'n bod hyn, mae gwasanaethol yn yrgaf. Mae gwasanaethol yn yrgaf. Rydym ei fod yn ymweld ym deall gael chi'n gweithio ardincadwyr y pwysig y fyrdd. Fym lawer o'i rhan i'r ymwyllwr. ac i ddweud i fan hynny, mae'n yn ei wneud yn gweithio cyfnodd. A'r gweithio'n hynny yw'n olygu'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio. Mae'n gweithio. A wneud, rwy'n teimlo i'r gweld, ac rwy'n gweithio i ddyn nhw, ymddangos ymddangos yma yn y system ddechrau yn y UK. Rwy'n credu! Yes, enemy number one, the only problem is I'm still waiting for that van to come pass with the blackout windows, the door to open, me to disappear and you'll never see me again because it's coming, it's coming. I'm going to tell a story though because there is a backstory to this, it's not just about education, it's about society as a whole and we need to understand that and I'm going to tell a story about this young man. Yes, it's me. Yes, it's me. I show this photo, you know when I go to the States and do this talk, I show this photo and they in the States they all go, oh, here in the UK they go, oh, twat. Anyway, anyway, that's 1977, I was five, you can work out how old I am now. I came from a very impoverished background. Dad was a miner, mum was a cleaner, we had nothing, we didn't have carpets, we had one of those plug-in cookers with the two rings, we didn't have a fridge, we didn't have a telly, sounds terrible but I loved it, I loved it. I didn't know anything different, I slept on the floor in my bedroom, I didn't know any different, that was life, that's what it was all about. The only problem was that little boy was going through an education system that was poor, really, really poor and I remember, I used this photo because I remember that year so well, I remember a teacher stood there and another adult who I don't know was stood there and the teacher said to this other adult, don't bother teaching him to read, he's going down the pit and I remember that as if it was yesterday, that was the first time that I realised but my life, my dreams might not become a reality and when you're that old and your dreams, the only thing that you've got when you've got nothing, other people don't care about them, that was hard because I did have a dream, that dream was to fly aeroplanes, that's what I wanted to do, I used to watch aeroplanes at the weekends, I used to get on my cycle, I used to ride five miles to watch them take off and come back, all I wanted to do was join the Royal Air Force but how does a boy from an impoverished background get anywhere close to that? Well I decided at the age of 12 there's only one person who's going to make it happen and that was me so I got a job and I got a job because I knew my chances of becoming a pilot in the Air Force were greatly increased if I had a pilot's licence, it's true so I got a job washing pots at a local restaurant six nights a week age 12, I started at seven, I finished about midnight, I did that for five years, I didn't spend a penny, not one penny and at the end of it I had enough money to get my pilot's licence, 17 and four months I qualified as a private pilot, get me, did it! Okay now I've got my pilot's licence, I've got my qualifications, I worked hard, I got those as well, I did the application form, I went off to Biggin Hill as it was in those days office selection for the Royal Air Force, I was accepted onto the selection procedure, it was a five day procedure in those days, 50 started at the beginning of the week, Monday we all turned up 50 of us, by the end of the week if you got to the end of the week you were in pretty much give or take and every time it was normally every sort of break they would call a few away and they'd go through a door and you'd never see them again, where they went nobody knew but as the week went on it was becoming less and less and less of us, by the end of the week there was three left and guess what I was one of the three there was me and two lads from private school, nice guys actually still in touch with them are we sat in this room and we're really nervous is it happened have we done it is it could it be could I have achieved the dream first boy goes in he comes out he's high fiveing us he's hugging we're like yes next one was called in he comes out he's high fiveing he's hugging we're all hugging together and I thought I've done it I've actually done it all that hard work paid off I was called into the room there were two RF officers standing sitting in front of me I went and I sat down at a chair the first RF officer said to me sunny well done there are very few who get to Friday you've passed everything not just passed everything passed everything with flying colours yes I thought the second one piped up but no commissioned officer in the royal air force has a father who reads the daily mirror and your father reads the daily mirror we're not selecting you however we do have a cook's job and you can have that instead late 80s miners weren't overly popular do you remember my dad was a my dad was a miner and society has in the system didn't like miners and because of where I came from and the family I came from my dreams destroyed I remember that trip home feeling like the the world had fallen from beneath me I spent the next six months feeling like that I got a few part-time jobs but it got to the point where and it had to do something with my life so I decided that I wasn't enjoying these jobs I'll I'll do something I'll go into some kind of business I'll buy a business and happened it fell in my lap somebody came along said I'm selling my business do you want it and I said yeah fantastic how much said a pound a pound what kind of business is it what do you get for a pound you said you get 300 thousand pounds worth of debt guess what I took it I took it I learned about change management I learned about engaging a workforce I learned about how you could have flat structures so that everybody's pulling together to make it work I brought every single member of my team on board to make it a success and five years later the business was turning over 10.8 million and I was bored I was 24 and I was bored and I realized something and I again I remember this like yesterday I was stood by the way the business was a nightclub if you know if you know it was a chain of nightclubs in the end I stood at the Nottingham nightclub Christmas Eve it was snowing and I decided that actually I'm not actually giving anything back to society and what happened to me as a youngster was out of order and we need to change that so that point in time I decided I was going to go back to education and try and affect one young person's life just one so what happened to me wouldn't happen to them and in a in a weird strange sort of way I made the decision then and that was it I was selling the business to the partner who I had and off we go and within nine months I was enrolling at university and then I spent four years pissing all the money up the wall that I'd earned over those past five years fine no problems but I became a teacher and I did really well at it but the problem with it was I'd got a business mind on my head and I was going into education and when I went into education something weird happened and the weird was I found on my first few days as a teacher that the things teachers do were not for kids it was for the system and I asked one question and I've not stopped asking that one question that one question is why why do we do that when it has no effect why do we do that if that's not improving their lives and I became the mosquito and from that day on I decided that I was going to go and find out what are the best school systems out there what are the best things that we could do so I travelled the world I went to the best schools in the world and I brought all that information back with me and I said right one day we're going to have a school and we're going to put all of this in there that chance came in 2009 where I saw an advert in the newspaper and all this advert says was please save our school we need a head teacher from the parents I decided to go and have a look at this school it was in a place called Lincoln I hadn't really been to Lincoln before I thought oh nice day out we'll go to Lincoln and I got to this school and instantly I knew this school was having problems the reason I knew is because there were kids running around the playground but it wasn't playtime not only that there were two members of staff doing this to a kid who was sat on top of the gate please come down please come down and I got to the gate and he just looked down at me went I'm not getting down what I said can I come through yeah no problem so I opened the gate he swung out with the gate and I swung it back again and shut the gate I went in that school and it was chaos it was like Beiru on a bad day there was no teaching and learning going off and the kids were running riot after about half an hour I walked back to the door I walked back to my car going no chance nobody's going to take that school on it's the worst I've seen but by the time I got to my car and I grabbed my grab the car door I remember looking back up at the school door and thinking if I don't nobody will so I applied for the job guess what I was the only one who replied for the job guess what I got the job I don't know why but I did and I think this is really important because as soon as I got the job the local authority said to me I'd signed the bottom line there's contracts signed local authority turned around went oh it was one thing we forgot to tell you we're closing this school in six months time if you don't improve it I was the 15th head teacher in seven years what chance did I have what chance did I have anywhere I thought well I will give it a go we'll give it our best shot and on the first day was an insect day and all the staff sat there growling at me they're all looking at me as if to say oh here we go another planning format that's going to change the world and I turned around to them and I said look hold on a minute if we're going to do this we've got to do this together but if we're going to do this we're going to have to change our mindsets as well we're going to have to think differently about this go back to your classrooms now and go and fetch all the things you've been told to do over the past seven years all the schemes of work all the curriculums all the planning all those strategies that were put in place to make it better go and get them now and they all got up one of the teachers no word of a lie turned around and shouted wanker as they left the room I thought whoa this is going to be harder than I thought anyway they'd gone and I prepared outside some fire doors here I ran out I opened the fire doors and I dragged in one of those great big steel bins you know the three wheels on the bottom huge thing I dragged it into the hall before they all came back and I stood there dead coolly against this bin and they all came back in even the person who called me a wanker and I said put all that in there put all that in there all of it and they reluctantly did it and then I dragged that bin outside and I said come with me I pulled diesel in that bin I set fire to it it was great from that moment onwards I proved to my staff that we needed to think differently and I went back in that hall and I said I'm not going to tell you how to teach I'm not going to tell you what to teach you're not going to use this to teach you're going to use this to teach go and do it and they did the worst well the fifth worst let's not exaggerate the fifth worst school in the country became one of the best schools in the country in under two years that was the success story those kids were amazing those same same staff and the person who called me a wanker is still there today how I don't know right so to understand the education system we've got to understand where it comes from the education system actually is fundamentally broken and that story sort of illustrates that if you think differently you can do differently you can change the education system but the government don't want you to why well the education system came around in the 1870s and the first education bill was published everybody had to go to school and at the time well even now people still think that people went to school to improve their chances to prove their life chances wrong it was nothing to do with that it was to prepare the young people for the factories it was to make them compliant the Victorian factories were very like school at the beginning of the day a bell rang everybody went and went to their place they sat down at their place and they got on with their work if they got stuck or there was a problem they had to put their hand up their supervisor would come over at lunchtime a bell rang and then a bell rang at the end of lunchtime then a bell rang at the end of the day if you wanted to go to the toilet you had to put your hand up does that remind you of anything because it does me and actually schooling changed no it hasn't we're the only industry left that hasn't changed for 140 years why because the politicians want compliant individuals to go out into society they don't want free thinkers and i've discovered this with the past 20 years research but i've been poking and prodding at it and thinking about it actually schooling is nothing to do with improving life chances i don't know if you've come across this thing called pupil premium pupil premium is money that's spent on those who are free school meals they've spent about four and a half billion pounds on it it's had zero effect over the past five years why because it's designed to have zero effect over over that time this is the state of the education system now and if we aren't strong enough and actually stand up to it we're going to end up with an education system like this in 130 years time we need to do something about it i might really standing here and saying that our schooling system is about making compliant individuals for the future of course our kids don't go into compliance industries in our country or do they 93% of the industries in our country about compliance and then people wonder why 85% of our employees are actively not involved in their jobs something's got to change something's got to move somewhere we actually went and we we these theories it's great okay do kids feel this so we actually went and asked do you enjoy school what percentage there were 6000 kids by the way age six to 13 mixed demographic what percentage do you think said yes 22 22% of them said yes now should we be over the moon that nearly a quarter i'll enjoy school or should we be questioning that nearly 80% don't we went on from that and we asked this question what's the best thing about school shout at me lunch times break times some i would have said pee some would have said art some would have said music i've asked this to about 50 000 teachers that same question not one of them yes yet said anything about mass in english they've all said what you said actually 64% of them said home time that's the best thing about school and the biggest thing that sticks in my mind from that survey was one eight-year-old boy deprived family deprived background and he said i live for the end of the day because then i can start living that's our education system it needs up in and up people and it needs changing and it needs changing quickly if we don't change it all we're gonna have is this i'm using this as a metaphor for our industries as well our employees that are out there we've got to get the whole of society moving why is this country one of the only countries that aren't doing that with education why are we holding our kids back it seems really bizarre so that's a question that i've been asking for many years now one of the things that did was actually let's go and try and find the answer let's actually look at these young people who are coming in and let's think about them as a little human beings what the little human beings need hold on a minute let me change that what the little human beings need and what the big human beings need to be engaged in their professions to be engaged in school how do we get them excited about work so they're excited at work and how do we get the leaders of the future to excite our workforce and make it more profitable and productive and actually sort out some of the moral problems that we've got now and what's coming well this is something that that i've been going over in my mind for ages and one of the things that i'd noticed in the research was you get these little kids at age four coming into school and they're full of absolute curiosity all they want to do is learn that's all they want to do and they will run around they will learn all day long by the time they get to 11 all of that's gone and i'm noticing more and more that those 11-year-olds are putting their hand up and asking if they can turn the page what's happening between there and there how are we taking that away from them but more than that whose fault is this that we're taking that away from them that passion for learning that drive that desire well quite simply it's our fault our fault is educationless and we've got to do something about that because if we don't the others won't one five-year-old boy this was in the summer i was visiting a school i get asked by lots of head teachers now can you come and see my school can you come and help me out a bit um summed it all up for me this little five-year-old boy came up to me like this didn't know me from adam he had a chest full of stickers he also had the biggest snot coming out of his nose as well and it was sort of going across his top lip so i'll wipe his nose first that was the first thing we did and i went wow let's loads of stickers you must be really good at something what did you do and he went yep got these in a week yep just this week and i'm changing my jumper this week so they're all still on there so what did you do seriously what did you do to get all those stickers i sat silently on the carpet all week and i got all these stickers hold on a minute you're five what do you mean you sat silently on the carpet all week the point that i'm making is we're getting kids into the school system and we're making them compliant instantly still by the time they're 11 they're incredibly compliant by the time they leave school all they want to do is leave school not really well educated actually not really ready for the world but our school system is pushing us in that direction constantly and i'll say again the school system's broken one of the bits of research that came out of this was a connection and we worked with psychologists um and actually i went back to university and did a a master's in psychology and we we looked at this and we looked at this with a medical profession too and we said what is going off here and one of the things that came out of that research was the connection between motivation attitude and engagement if you can get people motivated and get them with the right attitude you'll engage them but you've got to have certain factors in place there are actually eight levels of motivation this is the science by the way eight levels of motivation they've all got different names and the weird bit or not the weird bit is that when we started to look at this we started to break these down and started to look at these not just in the school system but within the workplace as well there was something that came out quite highly number one the emoti am motivated or those who don't care is around two to five percent of school and of the workforce interested or interesting but the biggest piece that was interesting was the level one i do this to avoid consequence in other words i come to school i do as i'm told i don't care about it and actually i'm less than five percent engaged but i do it because i have to that is 80 percent of school children but it's also 80 percent of people in the workplace they don't want to be there and if they had a choice they could go one of our lowest motivational factors in being human as psychology goes is the majority of our population in this country i'll skip the next few you get a few of those in in classrooms you don't get many of those and that's all about being in prison you've got no choice the bit that was more interesting than anything was the next bit level five to seven the most engaged the most motivated you can be to either be in school or do your job and it was all around intrinsic motivation intrinsic motivation to know i'm curious that five year old kid is curious and you can get so much out of them that 11 year old kid is not curious and they don't care their productivity has gone through the floor and we went to industry as well and we checked it with industry and that's exactly the same as soon as you've got a kid curious or you've got a employee curious they want to go further they want to know more they want to research it they want to find out about it and then they go to level six and they start to master it as soon as they start to master it something happens endorphins are released in the brain you start to get a bit of a high a bit of a kick your self-esteem goes up and then you start to enjoy it can you imagine that enjoying work or enjoying school all of our research and all the things that we do within education at the moment because we're consulting with education and we're working with hundreds of schools across the world to try and get them to think like this but we're also doing it with business too to try and get employees engaged and again we're working with lots of businesses out there to increase productivity and all we're working on are these qualities here can we get them curious can we get them self-regulating to know more and as soon as their self-esteem starts to go up they start to enjoy their job and they become more profitable the thing is the workplace is changing not so much in this country but when I travel the world and I go to workplaces like this it's happening all over the place they're about 30% more productive than industries that don't think about their workforce and their workforce is just doing this is what we're putting into schools with teachers this is what we're putting into schools with kids the problem we've got is when I go back to this and I go back to these levels this bottom bit here is not on the curriculum for trainee teachers anybody any guess why it's not on the curriculum for trainee teachers it's it's nothing to do with measures because the results do come what happens is when you do this you get kids asking questions you get kids thinking for themselves you get kids debating and you get kids excited and they start to question society this is frowned upon by the government because the government doesn't want kids asking questions all that leads to is revolution hold on a minute that's why we're all here we're the crazy ones we're trying to change this so that workplaces like this are engaging and are exciting schools get kids thinking for themselves working out how they want to work where they want to work and being highly productive doing it thinking problem solving creating a world that actually is quite an exciting place to be can we have kids skipping into school and can we have kids skipping out of school and going to their parents and their parents asking the question what did you do at school today what's the standard answer nothing can we get them saying oh I did this and I did that and I was excited about this and I learned about this because when we get them to that point we know we've won let's go back to heartstone academy heartstone changed it became one of the best performing schools the government found out about me they found out about the school and for the past three years all I've had is the government trying to shoot the school now they're not far off succeeding in beating it the problem isn't necessarily that we can't do it because we can and we've proved it the problem is there's not enough of us parents to shout loud enough for our kids to get a decent education the other bit of my research recently has been around the difference between the curriculum in the state sector and the private sector the state sector curriculum has narrowed to a point where there's not much left the private sector has expanded and they're getting really good curriculum basis why maybe that's a question you can speak about among the people in the in the room we want to see faces like this in school and actually if I see that at any time during any day I know that I've made a difference to one child thanks for listening