Blog posts by Guest

400 women leaders, 30 networks, 19 countries and one weekend. On 2-4th October 2020, WomenEd held its first global unconference, a shining example of a positive development in Covid-19 times!

Read this excerpt from a summary of relevant mental health and student wellbeing reports from Patrick Watson, Managing Director of Montrose Public Affairs Consultants Ltd.

Read this summary of relevant policy, research and reports from Patrick Watson, Managing Director of Montrose Public Affairs Consultants Ltd.

Kiran Malik, social media manager at Falinge Park High School in Rochdale has recently graduated from SSAT’s Leadership Legacy Project. In this blog piece Kiran and her colleague Fozia Najib, mental health lead, write about the focus of Kiran’s Think Piece on how Instagram is being used as a wellbeing tool at the school.

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s been important to us at SSAT to maintain contact with member schools in all countries. The K-12 Outreach team at Michigan State University have been SSAT members for many years enabling many teachers and leaders from across the state to be active participants in conferences, study visits and exchange of ideas and experiences with others in our global network. Director of K-12 Outreach Dr Bryan Beverly has recently shared this with us.

Drumbeat ASD School and ASD Service share what creating a personalised, meaningful curriculum has meant for the engagement, development and happiness of their learners.

Leadership legacy fellow Heidi Loveland, Business and Economics Teacher and Whole School Lead of Initial Teacher Training at Haydon School tells us about different aspects of her  experience being involved in SSAT’s Leadership Legacy Project and what she gained from participating.

Cheryl Goodchild, Assistant Principal, Goffs-Churchgate Academy, describes the journey of rapid school improvement at an SSAT Educational Award-winning school.

With so many offers of packages to support a so-called ‘recovery curriculum’ one SSAT school has looked to enhance its students’ return to school with a bespoke ‘Bounce Back’ approach.

Dr Mandy Shaw, Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, explores the bullying of young people in this short, research-based paper intended to support practitioners and inform policymaker thinking, which was written during the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic.
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