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  • Inspiring women to lead education

    Leadership · England
    by Vivienne Porritt @ViviennePorritt Two of WomenEd’s campaigns are about the representation of women in leadership roles in education, with a particular focus on women with an ethnic heritage. We know the stats show men are disproportionately...
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  • The Power of Connections

    Leadership · South East
    by Zoe Enser @greeborunner I never really understood networking. It was something which was increasingly mentioned as I moved into leadership, but I never knew quite what it meant or indeed why it was a good thing. People said it would help me with...
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  • New Me: New Possibilities

    Leadership
    by Ann Marie Luce @turnmeluce Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash The past months have been challenging for everyone, and many have been forced to adapt to our new reality. I, too, have made some difficult decisions that impacted my family and career....
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  • The Balancing Act: Mothers in Leadership

    Leadership
    By Jacinta C. Mayronne @drcalzy When I first began conversations with @WomenEd_US about hosting a potential chat titled 'Imperfection: Motherhood and Leadership,' it was back in March, before the majority of the United States began quarantining due...
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  • Leading through values

    Leadership
    By Christina Watson @cmw_kendal Photo credit The Falkland Islands – Sunset Saturday 26 September Saturday 26th September saw our first @WomenEdFalkland event: a morning thinking about Values- Led Leadership. What a morning it was: full of...
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  • My Leadership Journey

    Leadership · London
    by Christalla Jamil @ChristallalJ I graduated from teaching when I was 36 years old. I have been in education for seventeen years now, nine of which have been as a headteacher. I commenced my career in teaching in a maintained primary school in...
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  • Leadership Lessons from Lockdown

    Leadership · West Midlands
    by Tracy Goodyear @Miss_Goodyear It’s 5pm on Friday 5th June and I’ve decided to stop and to just do some thinking. It’s all too easy at a time like this to just carry on, to take action, to plough on through until the bitter end. It’s far too easy...
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  • Moving on

    Leadership · North West & Yorks England
    by Nichola @Nichola80 'I’d like to offer you the job'. The best sentence I’ve heard during lockdown and possibly the best one for a very long time. Doing an interview in the middle of a pandemic was strange to say the least. No shaking hands, no...
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  • #WomenEd, Karen and me.

    Leadership · West Midlands
    by Rachel Stone @SBMCoventry #BirthdayCelebration Well, here I am writing a blog for the first time. Why now? Well, probably because I have always been encouraged behind the scenes by Hilary Goldsmith, aka @SBL365, since I joined #SBLtwitter but...
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  • Leading without a title

    Leadership
    It’s a funny thing, going from huge responsibility for the running of the school to…nothing. After planning my lessons, marking my books, and printing my resources, I simply…go home. At breaks and lunchtimes I sit and eat my lunch, have a chat,...
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  • Motivation

    Leadership · East Midlands
    by Jill Berry @JillBerry102 On Sunday 12th January 2020, the wonderful Caroline Spalding led an #SLTchat discussion on the subject of Motivation, and this made me thoughtful. I’ve mentioned motivation in a number of blog posts, but have never...
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  • Lose the guilt #PledgeForChange20

    Leadership · Eastern
    by @MrsB_hums Since having my first daughter in 2014, I have experienced many emotions – love, contentment, stress, desperation, absolute joy but most regularly, guilt. Guilt about my role as a mother, guilt about my role as a wife, guilt about my...
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  • Collaboration

    Leadership
    By Jessica Webster @jgroteweb Collaboration has been a key to success both personally and professionally for me. Often educational leaders are faced with tough decisions that require complex solutions. By collaborating with others, soliciting...
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  • From SBM to COO – an Origins Story

    Leadership
    by Abigal Evans @LwLAT_COO I’ve been reflecting on what actually inspired me to set off, tentatively, down the road from School Business Manager (SBM) to Chief Operating Officer (COO) and have narrowed it down to two significant light bulb moments.
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