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Podcast: Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education
Episode: Interview 31: Deirdre O'Toole
Description: Deirdre O’Toole is one of Ireland’s best known educators. She started her well-known Instagram page in 2018 - the Playful Classroom, which explored early infant education - but had since become heavily involved in teaching and learning reading. She took it upon herself to bring the Right to Read conference to Ireland and this will take place next weekend, 21st March 2026. All 400 tickets sold out in under 90 minutes.Deirdre and I have never met in real life (that’s going to happen at the INTO Congress this year) but we first came across each other over 20 years...