64. How can schools find digital solutions which precisely match their needs? Special Series with Matt Stringer Founder of The Education Showroom - Part 4

I think that's so crucial, Andrew, isn't it? It's so crucial to have that level of trust, to have that level particularly of understanding so that you know as a company, the education showing, you know the school, you know what they need, you ask all the right questions in the right order, and then you can bring those solutions together.

Whereas certainly when I was ahead, I was looking for those solutions myself.

It was almost a bit of a needle in a haystack.

I was kind of looking out there, taking my time to do those things.

And it was really consuming and it was kind of taking me away from other things that I was trying to achieve.

But Andrew, I mean, this, the education showroom as a solution for that, I mean, it's exceptional, isn't it?

Absolutely is.

And I think, you know, as talented as you are, Ian, you can't possibly be an expert across all fields and you can't spend the time researching all the different channels of where you could go for for the right level of funding or a particular digital solution that might work for that as matt said that handful of children in the school and therefore going and speaking to people whose day in day out work is all around doing that exactly that and having that knowledge and making those connections i mean obviously this class this podcast and our professional development of discovery education is called Classroom Connect because we fundamentally believe in connecting classrooms to one another and connecting classrooms to sources of expertise and sources of knowledge and ways of working.

And therefore, by outsourcing some of that seeking and looking is really important.

And having that conversation, I think, is so healthy and helpful.

And I know Matt and the team do a brilliant job of bringing people together.

You know, we've met lots of fantastic people through our work with Education Showroom.

And we're just one small part of that ecosystem.

So it's a fascinating and fantastic way of working.

Thank you.