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by Emma Lewry @LewryEmma 'People are the most important thing to you ,' said a close colleague and friend the day after I handed in my notice for my most recent Headship. ' Errrr, yes, clearly ' I thought! Why did I not understand this about myself,...

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by Christine Bellchambers @dorsetsbl Having submitted my MEd dissertation a little over a year ago, I can now reflect on just how much I enjoyed the learning process. There is no denying that some parts were extremely difficult, and I will not be...

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By Julie Hunter @MsHMFL I gave a talk at a #WomenEd conference in January 2022 and only came across my slides again recently. With the background of leaders suffering from accountability measures in England, now seemed like the perfect time for me...

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By Nicola Mooney @nicksnook Network Leader @WomenEdSW This blog post is about something that is very important to me. I have 4 sons ranging from 3-16, I work full time, and am hoping to become a secondary headteacher in the future. I am writing this...

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By Nicola Mooney @nicksnook Network Lead @WomenedSW 2020, what a year. Surely 2021 can only be easier? 12 months later, I hear myself again…..2021, what a year. Most of this is related to the fact that we have lived and educated through COVID, but...

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by Vivienne Porritt @ViviennePorritt We started WomenEd because women's voices on twitter were often silenced, harrassed or our views were not valued. It's one of the reasons we included a mic in our logo. So we encouraged women to tweet and to...

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by Nicola Mooney @nicksnook This is a short reflective blog on why standing together is important. One year ago today I received this message:

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by Claire Nicholls @bristol_teacher In the @WomenEdBookclub chat led by Angie Browne (@nourishedteacher) on Layla F. Saad’s ‘Me and White Supremacy’ workbook, we discussed key learning, silence and complicity, the discomfort of white privilege and...

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by Megan Brown @mbhistory Anyone entering the teaching profession will have been asked the question ‘Why do you want to be a teacher?’. You are almost guaranteed to get asked it at an interview for a place on a teacher training course, and it should...

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by Susan Strachan @SusanSEnglish #BirthdayCelebration Tonight on 18th May, , I met virtually with 300 other women to listen, learn, reflect and be inspired by a plethora of strong women, who are not afraid to have their voices heard. Some of these...

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by Lucy Hemsley @CheltTeacher #BirthdayCelebration I do not over-exaggerate when I say reading 10%Brave r changed my life: it dramatically changed how I view myself and my career. I wrote about the book when I first read it. But the book was just...

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by Nicola Mooney @nicksnook I was reading through Twitter posts the other day about the possibility of holding down a full time teaching (or even leadership) post and winning at the parenting thing. It got me thinking about the sentence ‘having it...

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by Nicola Mooney @nicksnook When I entered teaching I was told that there is never anything new in education, that on a cyclical basis everything goes round again. I have now done a complete cycle.

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by @DorsetSBM #Pledgeforchange20 In September 2018 I ventured back into full time work for the first time in 15 years by taking on the Financial Business Manager (FBM) role in a school where I had been doing maternity cover in finance. The timing...

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by Jules Daulby @JulesDaulby #PledgeForChange20 He ran at us aggressively. His arms spread out wide and he was roaring loudly. A moment of fear for us until he stopped inches from our faces and then he walked away, laughing with his friends.I was...

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