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27/08/2026

Most people who changed the world never made the history books.

Josephine Cochran invented the dishwasher in 1886. Not because she was an engineer, but because a problem needed solving and nobody else was solving it. Widowed, working against every social limitation placed on her, she got the job done anyway.

In PiXL Pearls Series 10, Rachel Johnson (PiXL CEO) opens with her story, but this episode isn't really about dishwashers. It's about what drives any of us to try and change something, in our schools, our teams, our leadership.

Drawing on Rutger Bregman's work on moral ambition, Rachel introduces the Triple S Model: is the problem solvable, is it sorely overlooked, and is it sizeable enough to scale? Three questions that cut through complacency and point toward the work that matters.

Too many talented people, Bregman argues, spend their energy on the wrong thing: their own reputation, their own advancement, their own ambition. Moral ambition looks different. It starts with a simple realisation: you've only got one life.

What's the problem in your school, your team, your leadership that you've quietly accepted as just the way things are? What if you didn't?

Tune in to PiXL Pearls now 🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-job-to-be-done/id1486355262?i=1000779487283

Enjoyed it? Head to https://www.pixl.org.uk/ for free downloads.

26/08/2026

This week's PiXL Leadership Bookclub pick asks a simple question with a harder answer, what's the one thing you could focus on that would make everything else easier or unnecessary. A calm, useful listen for anyone feeling pulled in too many directions.

Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-one-thing/id1502747058?i=1000713373398

What's your one thing?

24/08/2026

We asked our team what they're proudest of from the year. Here's what they said.

What are you proud of? We'd love to hear

20/08/2026

Today's results are the sum of a thousand small moments most people never see, the extra revision sessions, the questions asked in class, the nerves before every mock exam.

Well done to every student picking up their results today, and thank you to the teachers, parents and carers who've backed them the whole way through.

We know a result only ever tells part of the story. If you'd like to share your experience, we'd love to hear it.

19/08/2026

Time to throw it back to the team. What's been their favourite moment of the year?

17/08/2026

A reminder for our members, Sir Tim Brighouse's conversation on Improving on Previous Best is one of the quieter gems in PiXL TV is well worth a rewatch if you missed it first time round.

"It's our job as teachers to make sure that every kid realises that a door may have closed, but that just means you have to knock it down, to get through and to do it in another way".

Watch the full conversation here: https://auth.pixl.org.uk/tv #!/v/c147/s332/e816

13/08/2026

Behind every result received today sits hours of work most people never see – early mornings, difficult conversations, staff and students who kept going when things got hard.

The amount of effort put into getting to this point does not go unnoticed. We hope it's been a real celebration for learners, their communities and the educators who have supported them to achieve.

This day rarely tells the full story on its own. That's why we want to hear yours.
Not the numbers, the story behind them. We'd love to celebrate with you.

11/08/2026

Emma Mignaud opened a staff meeting with a question: "has anyone got a spare 40 seconds?"

Everyone did. That’s how the head of Primrose Hill introduced compassionomics, an idea drawn from medical research, to her team. The approach is simple. A short, deliberate conversation, held every day, with the children who might otherwise go unnoticed: the quiet, compliant ones who never demand attention.

A year on, she measures it in attendance and attainment, and in the children who run up to her when she has been away. Her verdict: "compassionomics is low effort and has maximum impact."

Part 4 of our Forty Seconds series. https://www.pixl.org.uk/blog/from-that-sounds-like-a-good-idea-to-how-a-whole-school-runs/

10/08/2026

Another PiXL TV episode worth watching. The late Alex Wheatle MBE on making the invisible visible. It genuinely a moving watch. Alex discusses how teachers can make students feel seen. "Be a friend, not a teacher in that moment, gain their trust. Once you have that connection, the child will be more willing to share".
https://auth.pixl.org.uk/tv #!/v/c147/s332/e817

07/08/2026

Summer is meant to be the one stretch of the year where rest actually happens, but it rarely feels that simple. This episode of PiXL Pearls looks at why we struggle with rest even when we finally get the chance, using Netflix's unlimited holiday policy as the starting point. Rachel Johnson explores what genuine rest actually requires, and why it matters for leaders to model it themselves.

Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/dvSnYgUH

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