Dr Ben Levy

Dr Ben Levy is a Senior Educational and Child Psychologist with 25 years of experience across education, the third sector, and corporate settings. He is also a professional magician - and it is that combination that sits at the heart of his work. Ben is the founder of Magic Lessons, a CPD programme for teachers built around his ABC ME psychological framework - identifying the five factors that determine whether a pupil engages and succeeds in any lesson: Ability, Belief, Clarity, Motivation, and Environment. The framework gives teachers a practical toolkit for addressing disengagement at its root - not managing surface behaviour, but building the motivation and self-belief that make learning possible. The same psychological barriers stand between any pupil and genuine engagement, and are often most acute in SEND and inclusion contexts. His recent work includes presenting ABC ME at the National Inclusion Conference in Lagos, Nigeria (May 2026), a two year embedding project in a mainstream primary school, and appearances on the Foundation Stage Forum and Leadership Lenses podcasts. Teachers who complete his workshops report a 15% improvement in lesson quality within two weeks, rating the programme 9/10 for helpfulness. Ben speaks on the psychology of pupil engagement and motivation - why conventional approaches to behaviour and attainment so often miss the underlying cause, and what genuinely works instead.