We Are Not Super Women

A number of things have happened this week that have prompted me to write this post that will hopefully encourage MaternityTeachers and PaternityTeachers – past, present and future – to feel empowered about their own decisions about what they choose to do...

A Conference Creche How To

Tom Bennett, founder of ResearchEd and Chair of the government’s behaviour group, as well as Jon Richards, Head of Education Workforce for UNISON talk to @maternityCPD about why setting up a crèche at the annual UK ResearchEd Conference was important to them....

Music Education

Today I was supposed to take my son to Rug Rhymes at the Southbank, but I was so jet-lagged from a recent trip to the US that I found myself still in my pyjamas at 2pm – normally a total nightmare for me, but not today! Today, as I was clearing out my emails...

Open Mornings

Today was an excellent and spontaneous CPD day, made all the more exciting by the fact that it started off as a mum coffee, at which I expected to talk mostly about sleep patterns and baby clothes.  How foolish of me to underestimate my old teaching pal in this way....

Nobody Came to my Session

Today I went to the @WomenEd Unconference in Reading. I was really excited. We got up early and ran for a train and took Le Singe Bleu with us for luck and company. I’d spent three weeks tweeting and spreading the news and ensuring everyone had all the details...