Q&A + Baby

Today, baby and I faced our biggest professional challenge yet: appearing as panellists at the Teach First annual offsite conference for Teach First employees and partners. This meant two 60 minute Q&A sessions in Nottingham (I live in London) exploring the ideas...

Coaching + Baby

Today, baby and I went to our local family-friendly cafe (hub of NCT reunions and baby massage) to have a coffee with my former Teach First coach and have a coaching conversation about where on earth I’m going with my career and what I should work on to get...

Live Stream

Today, this #maternityteacher made a joyful discovery. Please keep in mind during this anecdotal blog that despite my incessant Tweeting and blogging, watching me try to navigate social media and many forms of technology is a little like watching your grandmother...

#maternityteacher

Recently, I wrote one of my first blog posts that veered towards an opinion piece rather than a post based entirely on sharing practical teaching strategies, focusing on how to make productive use of my six months of maternity leave, and how this time could be used as...

The Power of Networking

Networking is important: it builds connections and communities with likeminded people. It enables you to tap into expertise and experience that you don’t have and learn from it. It can introduce you to lots of lovely, abstract ideas like wisdom, reflection,...