10 Million Views Later | A Conversation with Tom Sherrington

Education Leaders | The Chart-Topping School Leadership Podcast · Jul 20, 2026 · 45m

This week, we're revisiting a favourite from the archives, recorded back when this podcast was still called Global Ed Leaders. Shane sits down with Tom Sherrington, the former headteacher turned writer, speaker and co-author of the Teaching WalkThrus series, to trace how he built one of the biggest audiences in education from a single WordPress blog in 2012. Tom explains why he never planned any of it, how a joke Twitter handle became his brand for years, and why he still presses publish every time expecting nobody to read it.

You'll hear why Tom believes the best blog posts are the honest…