Pocket Learner: Challenging The Education System With Andrea Campbell
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
You might not see things quite the same way that other people do, and that may not work in your favor. You might feel as if you're left behind or have been discarded. This is the sad truth for many educational systems around the globe. The inability to recognize and acknowledge differences in mental and intellectual patterns poses a great risk to our young learners and ultimately to today's education system. Andrea Campbell, an incredible woman who seeks to change our educational system for the better, celebrates her birthday with Corinna Bellizzi, to talk about Pocket Learner–-an award-winning invention and learning system that she developed to help her own child learn how to read. Listen in as Andrea discusses the learning tool that can help children be their best and thrive through their educational journey.
About Guest:
A social entrepreneur, linguist, and author of 5 inspirational non-fiction books in business, special education and culture. Andrea Campbell is the inventor of the multi-award-winning Pocket Learner Educational Development system for children with special needs and disabilities. As the mother of a child with special needs, she is passionate about empowering families of these special children to promote their children's learning.
Guest LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/andreacampbell6806?trk=author_mini-profile_title
Guest Website: https://andreacampbell.co.uk/
Guest Social: https://www.instagram.com/pocket_learner/
Additional Resources Mentioned:
The Pocket Learner by Andrea Campbell (USA): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JPCDXFM
Blended & Special by Andrea Campbell (USA): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09K6TDRV9
https://www.brittanysbasketsofhope.org/
Show Notes: (Raw Audio)
00:34 Introduction
02:34 The Pocket Learner Journey
05:29 Teacher And Parent’s Day
08:05 Jack Petchey Award
13:49 The Beauty Of Pocket Learner
15:10 Homeschooling And Lockdown
16:36 Fitting In
18:22 Tailor The Learning
19:37 Geriatric Mother
25:42 Single Mom Struggles
27:45 The Role Of Society
29:22 Tiger And Poodle
31:05 The Next Step
34:54 What Should Parents Do?
36:39 The Dream
38:15 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:09.6 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 0:15.2 | You'll learn how you can make a difference. |
| 0:17.1 | Vote with your dollars and get involved today. |
| 0:20.1 | Here's your host, Karina Belize. |
| 0:25.5 | Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends. I'm your host, Karina Belizzi, an activist and cause |
| 0:30.6 | marketer who's passionate about social impact and sustainability, so passionate, in fact, |
| 0:35.5 | that I went through the trouble of creating a activist guide |
| 0:38.4 | to help you unleash your interactivist. It provides five steps to help you get there and a simple |
| 0:44.5 | worksheet to prioritize your actions and enable you to be more successful so you can actually be |
| 0:50.2 | the change you want to see in the world. All you have to do is sign up for our newsletter at |
| 0:55.6 | care more, be better.com. Today I'm going to ask you to think about what it's like to grow up |
| 1:01.6 | with a learning disability without access to the types of resources that you might need to become |
| 1:06.9 | your best. You might learn differently. You might not see things quite the same way that other |
| 1:11.9 | people do. You're simply left behind. You might even feel as if you've been discarded. It's a sad |
| 1:18.4 | truth of what many educational systems are like around the globe. So to navigate this discussion |
| 1:24.2 | today, I'm joined by one incredible woman who seeks to change our educational |
| 1:29.2 | system for the better so that those that aren't neurotypical can receive the support they need |
| 1:35.1 | to learn and excel. Andrea Campbell joins me from the UK on her birthday, no less, to talk about |
| 1:42.6 | pocket learner, an award-winning invention and learning |
| 1:46.1 | system that she developed to help her own child learn to read. It's Andrea's passionate pursuit |
| 1:52.2 | to help others who learn differently, gain the access that they need to learning tools that |
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