The Unteachables Podcast

Education Podcasts

Welcome to 'The Unteachables Podcast', your go-to resource for practical classroom management strategies and teacher support. I’m your host, Claire English, a passionate secondary teacher and leader turned teacher mentor and author of 'It's Never Just...

Episodes

#171: If you want students to take REAL accountability for their behaviours, here's the 4 things you need to do.

#170: 5 classroom management moves I am obsessed with (and you can use immediately)

#169: 4 whole-class recall games that will have students begging to learn right up until the summer break

#168: What schools get profoundly wrong — with Andy Hargreaves

#167: The ‘boring’ differentiation strategy you need to be using in 2026 to improve low-level behaviours | The Differentiation Series: Part 3

#166: Why telling teachers to ‘just differentiate’ is helping nobody (and what we need to do instead) | The Differentiation Series: Part 2

#165: The "brain builder" mindset shift every teacher needs. Jessica Sinarski on dysregulation, teacher burnout, and the neuroscience behind behaviour

#164: Why your students won't do the work (even when it's really doable) | The Differentiation Series: Part 1

#163: What does real inclusion look like in the classroom? Supporting neurodivergent students | Interview with Verity Harvey

#162: How to Turn Your Teaching Into a Classroom Management Machine

#161: What we get wrong about classroom management, low-level disruption, crafting a strong teaching presence + more

#160: The 10 quick community builder activities that will become your classes favourite

#159: The 5 routines that are non-negotiable for teachers wanting to reduce low-level disruptions and create a beautiful, calm, safe classroom environment.

#158: How to build the most beautiful, positive, connected class community brick by brick (even the toughest, most disengaged of classes)

#157: "What if I just realllly don’t like a student?!" How to teach a kid you find really dang triggering and unlikeable.

#156: Why forced icebreakers don’t build trust or community (and what does)

#155: The first-week moves that’ll save you months of behaviour work down the track

#154: How to build back confidence and credibility after a tough year with behaviour [+ whats coming in 2026]

#152: So it's December, and your students won't stop talking... Now what?

#151: What to do when your class is bringing the 'checked out, apathetic, can't be bothered' vibes at the end of the year