Former headteacher, lecturer in Ed Leadership @ Coventry Uni, PhD @ Warwick Uni, researcher for #childpoweredfuture, teacher conference organiser, school governor, charity trustee, allomenteer, watches politics through fingers, occasional wine worker/drinker, owned by a cat, she/her
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Reflecting on recent conversations. People who have given years to the teaching profession but who are broken. Teachers who are knowledgable and hard working and should be the ones that the youngester in the staffroom can glean their craft from but who are unable to stay without unacceptable compromise. How on earth do we make this a sustainable profession for pupils and colleagues to learn from?
Hello #TwitterMigration friends, ideas for curating your timeline, which is quite like #gardening: what you plant will be what grows here for you.
1. If you mainly follow others who arrived with you, you depend on them staying. Balance with people who post regularly and there will be new growth here when you check.
2. Follow people who boost others. The serendipity of their associations will seed new ideas for you.
3. It’s a new home: you don’t need the same garden you had in your old home.
#schoolExperimenting with images.
My thorny pumpkin efforts. Easier than the death star I attempted last year.
There was about 3 years in my teaching career where Sundays meant a growing sense of impending misery at the week ahead. I moved schools & that Sunday feeling went away almost overnight with only rare appearances.
I actually recall having it as a student too particularly the first few years of Secondary school where I felt quite lost.
So here's me hoping at the end of half term that there's not too many teachers or pupils out there feeling that way.
@MalcolmWilson01 thank you for sharing this. Kindness is very much needed in this world. ❤
And cracking hair 
Kate