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  • What the xxxx is normal?(!)

    Diversity · South East
    by Kerry Jordan-Daus @KerryJordanDaus Thank you Francesca Martinez for your beautiful book, What the xxxx is normal? (!). It’s been on my reading list for some time, but in the COVID-19 lockdown context, well I was looking for something to read, and...
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  • What Next for #WomenEd?

    General Blogs
    by @WomenEd Strategic Leaders @AlisonKiel @EquitableEd @JulesDaulby @keziah70 @LizAMFree @ViviennePorritt #WomenEd is hurtling towards its fifth birthday in May and, when we pause to reflect, we have collectively achieved so much. Five years ago,...
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  • Courage calls to Courage Everywhere

    10% Braver
    by Christina Watson @cmw_kendal In January 2019 I moved 9000 miles to the unique and beautiful Falkland Islands to be a Deputy Headteacher and, after deciding I could be 10%braver, I became Principal of the small secondary school in September 2020.
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  • The 10%braver Muliplier Effect

    10% Braver
    by Anonymous @noonetoldmehow Just over a year ago I went to my first WomenEd Unconference. I was nervous, I knew no one in the community and I didn’t quite know what I was doing there, going for, or looking for. I met a wonderful community of women...
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  • Value your tribe

    General Blogs · South East
    by Debs Jewell @jewellsjournal Image: The Tree of Life - by Gustav Klimt, 1905 We bandy about the term ‘It’s okay to not be okay’, heck I’ve thrown it out there into the world myself, and with the best intentions. But … is it? Is it really okay to...
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  • Please

    General Blogs
    by Anoymous Your discomfort is palpable as the questions draw to an end. The parent governor on the panel is smiling warmly, but I can see that, although my performance today makes me the strongest of all the candidates, you are hesitant about...
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  • Schools Closed, Exams Cancelled…Now What?

    General Blogs
    by Katie Ridgway @MissMeeks14 ‘What-if’s’ and ‘maybe’s’ move erratically through my mind. Tonight, sleep eludes me, like it will be for many of my colleagues in the education sector. I have an anxiety disorder and have recently completed a course of...
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  • The harder journey

    General Blogs · South East
    by Kathryn Evans @purekathryn76 My husband has often mused that if I have the option of two different pathways, I will always choose the harder journey. To this, I always reply that the journey may be hard but the learning will be of greater value...
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  • When women gather.. #IWD2020

    General Blogs · Alberta
    By Lisa Hannay @lhannay1 Friday, March 6 marked @WomenEdAlberta’s second #LeadMeet in honor of International Women’s Day 2020. Planning began a few months back and much to my delight and surprise @cvkraig traveled all the way from Lloydminster,...
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  • Power of Connection #IWD2020

    General Blogs · Alberta
    by Charlie Kraig @cvkraig My pre-event warm up was a 545 km drive from Lloydminster to Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Not only was the sun shining, and I was traveling without my tiny humans, I was able to listen to the CBC Massey Lectures 2019 with...
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  • Turning failure into a positive

    10% Braver · South East
    by Debs Jewell @jewellsjournal It has been many years since I flexed my blogging muscles but this seemed a good post to start with. The first of a series of posts containing a collaborative pooling of ideas about dreams, friendships, networks,...
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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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  • Having it All?

    General Blogs · South West
    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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  • Networking

    General Blogs
    by Mary Bridget Burns @MaryBridgetEdu Networking . It's a concept that has gained significance in recent years, but often associated with bankers and business leaders, politicians or pundits. Rarely do educators come to mind when networking is...
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  • Job, Life and living.

    Women’s Health · South East
    by Julie Hunter @MsHMFL @PledgeForChange20 There have been lots of press articles recently about lack of teachers and there being a recruitment problem. I have experienced the lack of retention of superbly talented teachers who are leaving due to...
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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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