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The Confidence You Can't Teach in a Classroom

Written by Georgia Read | Jul 20, 2026 8:00:00 AM

The award is sitting on a shelf in Maria Sotiriou's office. She got up to fetch it mid-conversation, held it up to the camera. "We're really proud of that," she said, "because everybody was involved — staff and learners."

That award, a Get the Nation Learning prize for Learning with Technology, didn't come from one big push. It came from a year of deliberate decisions, small wins celebrated loudly, and a willingness to try new things even when resources were tight.

Bodyswaps was one of those things.