Oct 19, 2022 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Partnerships, Primary, Professional development, Science, Secondary, Updates
This is an article based on a talk given at the WomenEd Global Unconference on Saturday 1st October 2022 by Christina Astin (Chair of Planet Possibility), Marilyn Comrie (Director of The Blair Project) and Olivia Keenan (SEPnet and QMUL). Some young people, including girls, are put off studying physics because of misconceived stereotypes. Planet Possibility is a consortium working to change this, radically. Read on to find out what we are doing and how education leaders can be part of the solution. In this article we want...
Oct 9, 2022 | Leadership, Partnerships, Professional development, Updates
One could have felt more en-burdened than en-lightened coming away from the joint HMC/IAPS conference for school leaders this week, given the focus on many of the current challenges and even crises in education globally. But conversations with fellow educators and some inspiring talks from influential leaders gave me hope. All the speakers agreed upon the transformative power of education. But how best to harness that power? Set in the elegant city of Edinburgh, the conference took its theme as “Enlightened Education”. If the...
Jun 17, 2022 | Leadership, Partnerships, Primary, Professional development, Secondary
[This blog first appeared in May 2022 on the FED website, following a FEDSpace Round Table event at which I was a panellist.] As we move into the second year of our work at the Foundation for Education Development (FED) and following the launch of the FED National Education Consultation Report, we hosted a roundtable discussion focussed on ‘Partnership working : Art or science? How to develop and manage long term, effective partnerships for education’. We asked Christina Astin, an education consultant working with schools and businesses...
Jan 17, 2022 | Leadership, Partnerships, Primary, Science, Secondary
Announcing the launch of a project to bring together best practice in school science partnerships – read on for your invitation to contribute (and click here to upload your contribution). Crocodiles and birds would seem unlikely friends. But their symbiotic relationship means that they can do something together which they cannot do on their own. The Nile crocodile feeds the Plover bird whilst getting its teeth cleaned. We call it mutualism. So it is with school partnerships, at least those which are genuinely mutually...
