Practical Pedagogies 2026

One of the most inspiring events in 2026 will be the latest running of Practical Pedagogies. This is returning to where it started: the International School of Toulouse and is once again being organised by Russel Tarr. I’ve presented at every one so far. Unfortunately, this is in term time for me, so I won’t be able to attend, but it comes highly recommended if you can make it there - cheap flights are available from the UK to Toulouse airport.

Here’s Russ’s Call for Sessions, which is NOW OPEN! I’m delighted to announce the launch of Practical Pedagogies 2026 and warmly invite new, early-career, and experienced educators to submit session proposals focused on:

✔️ Resources and strategies that work in real classrooms
✔️ Practical approaches you’ve refined — even if you’re still refining them
✔️ Honest reflections on teaching, learning, and leadership

🗓️ Practical Pedagogies 2026 — BY teachers, FOR teachers
📍 International School of Toulouse, France
📅 Thursday 15 & Friday 16 October 2026
🎤 Keynote address by Ian Gilbert, internationally renowned educator on creativity and curiosity
🔗 Website: www.pracped.net

👉 New to presenting? You are absolutely welcome.
👉 Experienced presenter or subject expert? We’d love to learn from you too.

Submit a session proposal at www.pracped.net before the end of January.

Practical Pedagogies 2024 - Early Bird tickets available

The third running of the Practical Pedagogies conference will take place in November 2024. The first two events were rather great - one in Toulouse and one in Cologne.

This event will take place in Cologne once again.

The keynote speaker who will bookend the event is Hywel Roberts. He was awesome. His book 'Bothereredness' has been published since the last event, when he was sharing some of the ideas behind it, and comes highly recommended.

You can find out how to get your Early Bird ticket and also see the full programme (subject to the addition of other sessions) on the link above as well. There are over 120 sessions. They are all presented by teachers / educators, sharing what they do with colleagues. You will see session from Richard Allaway and Matt Podbury and quite a few other familiar names here.

My session is here, as described. It will take place on the 1st day of the conference.

Early Bird tickets available in limited quantities which are 100 Euros cheaper than the normal price.

Conference in Toulouse

A few days ago, I picked up the news of a conference being organised by Russel Tarr at the International School of Toulouse.

I was due to go to the previous event in 2012 that Russel organised, but it clashed with something I was already committed to. This time round, that's not a problem

The focus is on pedagogy, and there's a keynote from Ewan McIntosh.

Good to see my name in the programme (though that's subject to getting permission to go from school as it's during term time)

It's a combination of Mission:Explore and GeoCapabilities....
Looking forward to the possibility of visiting Toulouse.

Delighted to announce that @GeoBlogs will deliver a workshop at #PracPed15! http://t.co/dFvwgKKMIV pic.twitter.com/0AIUY5DwRk #geographyteacher
— Russel Tarr (@russeltarr) February 19, 2015