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These are the things I know about imagination, trust, and the worlds people build when you stop correcting them, at eight or at eighty.

Thoughts and Evidence

The Measurement Problem Nobody Is Talking About

The Measurement Problem Nobody Is Talking Aboutby: Kate

The things that matter most to children do not show up in the data. That is not evidence they do not matter. It is evidence the data is incomplete.

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The Measurement Problem Nobody Is Talking About

What the Data on Children's Mental Health Is Actually Telling Us

What the Data on Children's Mental Health Is Actually Telling Usby: Kate

The picture depends entirely on which problems you are measuring and how. What the data actually shows and what it does not.

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What the Data on Children's Mental Health Is Actually Telling Us

If We Cannot Measure It, Should We Still Do It?

If We Cannot Measure It, Should We Still Do It?by: Kate

The things that matter most, feeling seen, heard, valued, do not show up in the data. That is not evidence they do not matter.

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If We Cannot Measure It, Should We Still Do It?

Where Is the Child in All of This?

Where Is the Child in All of This?by: Kate

There is a remarkable absence at the centre of the vast apparatus of education research, policy, and intervention. The child.

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Where Is the Child in All of This?

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.
Tom Hirst Head of English, Dixons Manningham Primary
Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
Tom Hirst Head of English, Dixons Manningham Primary

STORYQUEST

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