Steve & Maggie and Mishi: How Wow! English Has Reached Over 20 Million YouTube Subscribers

Content Matters with Jack and Kitty Norton by Jack and Kitty Norton

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What do you get when a classroom experiment, a puppet magpie named Maggie, and a passion for natural language learning collide? A children's English platform with over 20 million YouTube subscribers — and a method changing the way kids around the world learn to speak.

Steve Watts is a British educator whose classroom discovery in Tokyo back in 2002 sparked an entirely new way of teaching children English: as naturally as their mother tongue.

Michelle Kempster is the methodologist who helps shape and refine the Wow! Method into the real-world teaching materials that educators and families depend on every day.

And Marek Kadlec is the Managing Director who helped turn a brilliant idea into a global platform now reaching more than 30,000 children across 26 countries.

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Steve and MaggieMaggie and MishiWow! EnglishSteve WattsMichelle KempsterMarek KadlecYouTubeYouTubersYouTube KidsEducators