KATE MARKLAND | THE JOURNAL
The Answers Are in the White Space.
Reflections on imagination, trust and the power of being heard, at eight or at eighty.
Thoughts and Evidence
Why Children's Stories Should Be Written by Children
Almost every book a child reads was written by an adult. What is lost when a child never sees themselves as the author.
The Child's Lens Changes Everything
Adults who write for children remember. Children who write their own stories know. The difference is everything.
What Happened When Year 5 Became Authors for a Day at Beckfoot Allerton Primary
Year 5 children at Beckfoot Allerton Primary Bradford become authors for a day. What they produced and what they said about it.
The Book That Made It Onto Times Radio at Cheltenham Literature Festival
How a book written on FaceTime during a court-ordered separation made it onto Times Radio at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
BOOK KATE TO SPEAK
Build a world together, and trust follows.
Your people are being asked to trust each other across distance, across generations and through constant change. Most have never been shown how.
Kate Markland has. For a time she had one hour a week with her son Gabriel, on a FaceTime call. They spent it building a world. She asked one question, wrote down everything he said and corrected nothing. That world became three books and a method tested in nine UK schools.
In her keynote, Create the World You Want, Kate shows your audience how trust is really built, and gives them a method they can use the same evening.
For leadership, education and family audiences.
Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
