Tony Ryan is the Chief Executive Officer of the Design and Technology Association. He is a public speaker with eleven and a half years experience as a Headteacher and a career in education spanning thirty four years. Tony has his own podcast entitled 'Designed for Life' where he discusses all things design and was a winner in the Manufacturer 'Top 100' Award 2023.

00:00 Intro

00:31 “I don’t want any kid to feel the way I felt” 

05:27 Aspirations for something that doesn’t yet exist 

07:49 Context for learning

09:47 “I survived it…and a kid turned around and said, that was alright”

12:58 Being a stand-up comic & is teaching a science or is it an art?

15:06 At the beginning it is hard

16:38 Leadership

23:03 We had to cut staff

27:38 The lamppost, alcohol and putting on three stone in weight

30:51 Mistakes

32:43 “Am I here to save somebody’s job, or am I here to do what’s best for the kids?”

35:36 Drugs, gangs and violence all dropped at the door.

45:36 The job is never done so…

48:31 Design and Technology is dying & so is our natural world.

54:00 A context for students to engage with

61:35 You can’t be what you can’t see

64:01 Four and five year olds with saws

65:57 Make them love your subject

68:18 Brompton Bikes

69:57 What’s the point?

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