
Practical thinking for boys' schools.
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Exploring Boys' Education treats boys' schooling as practical work: schedules, phones, sport, green spaces, peer support, and adult relationships. Its conversations stay close to school life, with IBSC educators and guests connecting research language to decisions teachers and leaders can actually make.
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About Exploring Boys' Education
Exploring Boys' Education is a professional IBSC podcast about the everyday systems that shape boys' lives in school. Its recent run is wide, but not scattered. Sport, wellbeing, phones, deepfakes, green spaces, classroom agency, peer relationships, and online influence all return to one central question: what conditions help boys grow well? The show often begins from a concrete school problem. A boy is pulled between sport, academics, arts, and recovery. A school rethinks phones, recess, choice blocks, and clubs. Educators confront deepfakes and the fading boundary between real and fake media. A wellbeing team tries to make support visible before distress becomes a crisis. From there, the conversations move toward practice. The language is formal, but the concerns are immediate. Listeners hear about schedules, coaching communication, personal best goals, outdoor play, student affairs teams, adult vulnerability, and digital discernment. The show is careful with institutional context, naming IBSC roles, member schools, conferences, research reports, and professional development opportunities. It also has a clear moral center. Boys are treated as whole students rather than academic units, athletes, risks, or data points. That makes the series useful when the topic is tense, especially around deepfakes, online radicalization, misogyny, and shame. The better answer, the show repeatedly suggests, is not panic or avoidance. It is trusted adult presence, clearer structures, peer connection, and a willingness to ask boys sincere questions. Exploring Boys' Education works best as a practical companion for school leaders, teachers, coaches, and wellbeing staff who want language and examples for improving the daily architecture of boys' education.
Made for: Suits a listener who works with boys in schools and wants grounded examples of wellbeing support, teaching practice, school routines, and digital literacy. It also suits education leaders looking for language that connects research with daily school decisions.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by keeping its focus on boys' schools as lived systems: timetables, coaching cultures, playgrounds, phone policies, peer support, and adult trust. Its editorial weight comes from IBSC's school network and repeated attention to implementable practice.
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The International Boys’ Schools Coalition champions boys’ education. Join us for this regular podcast that delves into and examines current issues affecting boys, teachers of boys and boys’ schools.
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Episodes
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S7/Ep.05 - Redefining High Performance in Boys’ School Sport
Hidden gemExploring Boys' Education S7/Ep.05 pairs Bruce Collins with Chris Ekron, the former Head of Sports Performance at Bishops in Cape Town, to rethink high performance in boys' school sport.
Mar 26, 2026·27m·1 clip - 2
S7/Ep.04 - Boys and the Deepfake Landscape
Hidden gemHarris says about 90% of deepfake sexual-abuse victims in the United States are female and about 90% of perpetrators are boys, and he says shame makes boys slow to disclose when they are targeted.
Mar 10, 2026·28m·2 clips - 3
S7/Ep.03 - The Boy-Friendly School
Hidden gemBoys' Latin School of Maryland responds to a post-pandemic reset by combining a door-to-door cell phone ban with a school-day redesign built around play, choice, and mentoring.
Dec 12, 2025·41m·4 clips - 4
S7/Ep.02 - An Actionable Blueprint for Boys' Well-Being
Hidden gem["Exploring Boys' Education uses IBSC's latest Global Research Report to turn boys' academic and social-emotional wellbeing into a practical school blueprint.", "Bruce Collins speaks with Professor Andrew Martin of the University of New South Wales, who says the project started with 7,500 boys' survey responses from more than 40 IBSC schools.", "The episode focuses on positive belief, relational support, autonomy support, and quality instruction, with process goals, personal best goals, and the \"I do, we do, you do\" model as concrete tools.", "Martin's closing message is to do fewer things better, keep high but attainable expectations, and stay in a boy's orbit with explicit support."]
Nov 5, 2025·39m·3 clips - 5
S7/Ep.01 - Boys, Green Spaces, and Wellbeing
Hidden gemMelinda Baguana, a Specialist Environmental Educator at Trinity Grammar School in Sydney, describes 26 boys aged 7 to 12 building a biodiversity pond over eight weeks for IBSC.
Sep 22, 2025·41m·2 clips - 6
S6/Ep.10 - 2025 IBSC Highlight Reel
Hidden gemExploring Boys' Education's S6/Ep.10 highlight reel brings together Bruce Collins, IBSC Executive Director Tom Batty, and educators discussing boys' education in 2025.
Jun 14, 2025·30m·2 clips - 7
S6/Ep.09 - Boys, Breath, and Balance
Hidden gemExploring Boys Education S6/Ep.09, “Boys, Breath, and Balance,” examines Tracy McKenzie’s well-being work at St Andrews College in Makanda, South Africa.
May 30, 2025·34m·3 clips - 8
S6/Ep.08 - Boys in a Digital Storm
John Boddy, Head of School at the Browning School in New York City, reflects on Netflix's four-episode Adolescence and its portrayal of online radicalization, boyhood, and familial trauma.
Apr 28, 2025·39m·2 clips - 9
S6/Ep.07 - Rolling the Dice: Boys and Online Gambling
Hidden gemExploring Boys' Education examines online gambling and sports betting among boys' school communities through Bruce Collins's conversation with Saul Malik.
Mar 18, 2025·32m·2 clips - 10
S6/Ep.06 - Is Tech Hijacking Boys' Brains?
Hidden gemExploring Boys' Education examines technology and boys' developing brains through Bruce Collins's interview with Catherine Burkett, whose background includes educational psychology and the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics.
Jan 21, 2025·40m·2 clips - 11
S6/Ep.05 - Values, Character, and the Manosphere
Dec 17, 2024·46m - 12
S6/Ep.05 - Values, Character, and the Manosphere
Dec 17, 2024·46m - 13
S6/Ep.04 (Part One) - The Teacher-Boy Connection
Nov 25, 2024·37m - 14
S6/Ep.04 (Part Two) - The Teacher-Boy Connection
Nov 25, 2024·27m - 15
S6/Ep.03 - Designing Learning for Younger Boys
Oct 22, 2024·43m - 16
S6/Ep.02 - Getting Boys Back to Books
Sep 24, 2024·36m - 17
S6/Ep.01 - Balanced Boys (Bonus Segment)
Aug 23, 2024·33m - 18
S6/Ep.01 - Balanced Boys
Aug 23, 2024·42m - 19
S5/Ep.08 - Why AI?
Aug 5, 2024·38m - 20
S5/Ep.07 - Boys, Sport, and a Greater Purpose
Jun 26, 2024·40m - 21
S5/Ep.06 - Educating Boys to Become the Men the World Needs
May 6, 2024·42m - 22
S5/Ep.05 (BONUS) - Supporting the Well-Being of Boys in Boarding
Apr 8, 2024·14m - 23
S5/Ep.05 - Every Lesson is a Well-Being Lesson
Apr 8, 2024·40m - 24
S5/Ep.04 - Supporting Indigenous Students in Boys' Schools
Dec 15, 2023·43m - 25
S5/Ep.03 - Behavior Management in Boys' Schools
Nov 24, 2023·39m - 26
S5/Ep.02 - Boys and Books
Nov 1, 2023·37m - 27
S5/Ep.01 (Part One) - Nurturing Boys' Mental and Physical Wellbeing
Sep 18, 2023·27m - 28
S5/Ep.01 (Part Two) - Nurturing Boys' Mental and Physical Wellbeing
Sep 18, 2023·37m - 29
S4/Ep.10 - Kia Moemoeā: Dream Beyond Limits
Aug 4, 2023·44m - 30
S4/Ep.09 - Boys' Schools in Spain: Navigating Change
Jun 26, 2023·22m - 31
S4/Ep.08 - Educating Boys for the Future
Jun 14, 2023·36m - 32
S4/Ep.07 - The Intersection of Race and Gender in Boys' Schools
May 11, 2023·34m - 33
S4/Ep.06 - Supporting Gender Diverse Students in Boys’ Schools
Mar 28, 2023·43m - 34
S4/Ep.05 - Helping Boys Discover What Being a Guy Means to Them
Feb 6, 2023·36m - 35
S4/Ep.04 - Exploring the Best of 2022
Dec 8, 2022·35m - 36
S4/Ep.03 - Boys and the Arts
Nov 23, 2022·36m - 37
S4/Ep.02 - Preparing Boys for the Future
Oct 21, 2022·38m - 38
S4/Ep.01 - Boys, Technology, and Empathy
This episode explores how digital selfless portraits can foster cognitive empathy in 8th grade boys, featuring Corey Brown's IBSC Action Research Project.
Sep 21, 2022·40m - 39
S3/Ep.11 - Together Again
This episode covers the excitement and warmth of the first in-person IBSC annual conference in three years, hosted at St.
Jul 12, 2022·31m - 40
S3/Ep.10 - Season 3 Highlight Reel
A highlight reel of season 3 conversations on boys' education, featuring a preview of the IBSC Annual Conference at St.
Jun 10, 2022·43m - 41
S3/Ep.09 - Sustaining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Boys’ Schools
May 17, 2022·28m - 42
S3/Ep.08 - Boys' Schools Understand and Celebrate Boys
Apr 22, 2022·43m - 43
S3/Ep.07 - Helping Boys Embrace Healthy Masculinity Part 2
Mar 29, 2022·21m - 44
S3/Ep.07 - Helping Boys Embrace Healthy Masculinity Part 1
Mar 29, 2022·39m - 45
S3/Ep.06 - Enhancing Boys’ Well-Being: An Exploring Boys' Schools Feature
Feb 14, 2022·36m - 46
S3/Ep.05 - What Every Boy Should Know About Consent
This episode discusses the importance of teaching boys about consent, focusing on affirmative and enthusiastic consent, and empowering them to become upstanders in social settings.
Jan 18, 2022·45m - 47
S3/Ep.04 - Sustaining Staff and Faculty Wellbeing in Schools
Dec 12, 2021·28m - 48
S3/Ep.03 - Boys, Technology, and Learning Relationships
Nov 15, 2021·34m - 49
S3/Ep.02 - The Heart of a Boy: An Exploring Books Feature
Oct 22, 2021·25m - 50
S3/Ep.01 - IBSC and the Future
IBSC leaders discuss the future of boys' education and the upcoming annual conference.
Sep 27, 2021·31m