by @maternityCPD | Nov 4, 2016 | Parental Leave CPD
Since the conception of The MTPT Project, technology has been integral in connecting members of our community across the country, and enabling access to events and CPD opportunities that would otherwise potentially be off limits, especially to very new mothers. For a...
by @maternityCPD | Oct 29, 2016 | Parental Leave CPD
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...
by @maternityCPD | Oct 28, 2016 | Family Friendly Schools
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....
by @maternityCPD | Oct 21, 2016 | Parental Leave CPD
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...
by @maternityCPD | Oct 11, 2016 | Parental Leave CPD
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....
by @maternityCPD | Oct 8, 2016 | Parental Leave CPD
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...
by @maternityCPD | Sep 29, 2016 | Family Friendly Schools
Recently, I have been challenged to make the connection between the benefits of The MaternityTeacher PaternityTeacher Project to an individual teacher, and the way in which the project – if it became a movement for social change around the ‘issue’ of...
by @maternityCPD | Sep 27, 2016 | Parental Leave CPD
Over the last couple of years, I have noticed an increasing number of friends and acquaintances insisting until they are blue in the face that as a teacher, I must be interested in politics and I must have an opinion on things. Until quite recently, I have been quite...
by @maternityCPD | Sep 21, 2016 | Parental Leave CPD
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...
by @maternityCPD | Sep 12, 2016 | Parental Leave CPD
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...
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