WomenEd Blogs

by Tara Bryan @Bryan_Amethyst I’ve got no shame in saying it: I love Calamity Jane. Doris Day was my first heroine before I even knew what a heroine was, and even then I instinctively recognised in Ol’ Calam’ herself something that would often be a...

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By @WomenEd_US and Kimberly Lane Clark @askatechnogirl Making professional connections is vital to an educational leader’s success. If you don’t have a strong support system around you, it’s essential to find ways to structure a meaningful support...

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by Vivienne Porritt @ViviennePorritt What’s the issue? Equal Pay Day this year is 14th November. From this day, most women are working for nothing because they earn less than men: the most recent statistics show the mean gap for full time workers is...

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by Julie Ricketts @DOpsSBL (ISBL Fellow) The beginning of October saw my three-year anniversary working as a School Business Leader – an anniversary I never thought would arrive. Not because I don’t love what I do, but more that I had made a...

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by Emma Turner @Emma_Turner75 As people and teachers, we all need encouragement. We need encouragement to rise out of comfy beds, to start our days, to take those first steps or to take on new challenges. We need encouragement to keep on going when...

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by Ginny Bootman @ sencogirl (Senior Leader & SENCO) I set off with some trepidation as I left the sunny climes of Northamptonshire to be part of my first #BrewEdHerts event . I was a lone wolf taking it on alone.

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by Astrid Emma @myvisioninwords Photo: Dyaa Eldin on Unsplash Before I start, this is not “a feel sorry for me” plea, but more of a reflection on how I have come to believe that “everything happens for a reason” and how being #10% braver allowed me...

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by Portia Taylor @MrsPTaylor Chapter 2: Progress and Perceived Barriers We’re lit up. We’re radiating hope, energy and a desire to change. We know we can (ok, so we think we might be able to but we are on our way to self-assurance if we are not...

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By Kaley Riley @MrsRileyEng It’s the Monday in the week before #WomenEd, and already I am beginning to question whether I should really be giving up a precious Saturday with my daughter and husband (who works every other weekend). The guilt is...

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By Amy Jeetley @amyjeetley I’ve always prided myself on my sharpness of mind, clarity and understanding. I could pick up things quickly, work things out at a fast pace and recall many things. Over the last couple of years I’ve seen a decline in all...

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by Binks Neate-Evans @BinksNeateEvans (Executive Principal, Evolution Trust) I have recently blogged about disappointment for @headsroundtable here where I refer to disappointment on a spectrum with hope.

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by Alison, Jules, Keziah, Liz, Sameena and Vivienne - @Alison Kriel, @JulesDaulby, @keziah70, @EquitableEd, @Vivienne Porritt Thank you so much to everyone who attended our 5th unconference at Sheffield Hallam University, led workshops and #LeadMeet...

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by Lyn Lawton @lynjlawton Being a big fan of the book ‘ 10% Braver – Inspiring Women to Lead Education ’. I decided to be 10% braver myself and put myself forward to deliver a workshop at the national WomenEd Conference this year. I didn’t actually...

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by Portia Taylor @PortiaTaylor A series on finding your voice and giving it a professional megaphon e This series of blog posts is a journey, one potentially fraught with emotion, chocked with challenge and packed with punchy strategies to help you...

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by @lenabellina For #WorldMenopauseDay2019 Quite a long time ago, I was pretty unwell. Then I got my act together and for a long time I was a lot better. Suddenly about 7 years ago, I felt as if I was going backwards. I went to the GP with...

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by Debra Kidd @debrakidd I don’t like going to the doctors. I have to feel really, really shitty to go and so it was unusual to find myself sitting in front of one some three years or so ago. I was so embarrassed I’d learnt the list I would say off...

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by Alison Kriel @AlisonKriel #WorldMenopauseDay2019 The menopause is a rite of passage that happens to every women yet it is a taboo subject! My grandmother definitely did not speak about it and my mum’s generation spoke with their eyes and mouthed...

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by Jo Lawrence @JoCLawrence On #WorldMenopauseDay let’s talk about chemo induced menopause. Yep, that’s right, the trial run you get when going through chemotherapy. As if my diagnosis wasn’t enough, being a 37 year old woman and a way off menopause...

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by Bretta Townend-Jowitt @Headspiration Madness part 1 – the need to clarify my reason for blogging. Earlier in my career I suffered from a lack of knowledge and understanding my employers had around fertility treatment, 14 years later I expected...

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by Jules Daulby @JulesDaulby Her tears, her fears. Fuck! Her anxiety. Nervous, jittery, lost her glitter edge. Discombobulated identity. Mind drawn backwards and forwards through a hedge.

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By Vivienne Porritt @ViviennePorritt Our 5th Unconference this Saturday, 5th October is going to be special. We’re keeping our tradition of all of us meeting together at the beginning and end of the day and celebrating what our #community has...

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by Emma Grundy @MsGundry I am at the end of week 3 of my first headship and it is both better and worse than I’d imagined.

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By Anonymous Values are things that we generally take for granted. We have our own moral compass and assume that others have the same. Until something happens that makes us question either our own values or someone else’s.

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By Anonymous Going into teaching in my 30s, after seven years in Marketing and Sales wasn’t easy, but it has been fulfilling and has made me think very differently about what counts for experience and skill in the workplace.

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