Gillian Hamilton
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Day one of my new role as Interim Chief Executive of Education Scotland - really looking forward to working with colleagues across
@EducationScot
and Scottish education in the year ahead
#leadership
#excitednotnervous
Gillian Hamilton has taken up the interim position of Chief Executive of Education Scotland today. We wish her the very best in her new role.
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My twitter feed is full of tweets recognising the hard work, dedication & commitment of Scotland’s teachers & school leaders stopping for the Oct hol. Scotland’s teachers are doing an amazing job-I hope all those stopping today have a relaxing and well deserved break.
#thankyou
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Last day in our
@TeamSCEL
office today - next week we join
@EducationScot
. So proud of all that
@TeamSCEL
have achieved so far, here’s to the next chapter!
#proud
#WeAreES
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Wishing all those who work in Scottish education a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Thank you for all that you do - every single day! Switch off, relax - and enjoy time with family and friends.
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Great to see the sunshine this weekend - took my mum a wee run to Loch Lomond for ice cream!
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Like many others, I won’t be able to spend Christmas with my son and my family this year - this message from
@charliemackesy
chimes with our new family catchphrase... keep our chins up until we can kick our heels up...
#family
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To all Scotland’s educators stopping for a well earned break- rest, relax & recharge. My favourite quote - to get the best of you, they don’t need the exhausted you’. Taking my own advice, OOO on, and looking forward to my son visiting for a Glasgow staycation next week!
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The difference a great teacher can make ... love this film from
@UofGlasgow
What a difference a great teacher can make! Growing up in
#care
, UofG student
@jdalgoutteCE
had a tough start but when a
@greenwood_acad
teacher believed in him it changed his life. Watch the full video 👉
#UofGWorldChanger
#TeacherAppreciation
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My twitter feed is bursting with enthusiastic tweets about going back to school - from new teachers, experienced teachers, new head teachers, experienced head teachers. Good luck for the year ahead!
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Wishing all those in Scottish education a well deserved, restful summer holiday. I hope the sun shines and the company is good! Thank you for everything you have done this year for Scotland’s children and young people 💕
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Friday smile 😊 During covid, doing a keynote or presentation didn’t require any extra equipment. Now back to physical events, I’ve got a wee challenge that I don’t remember pre-covid… either the lecterns are getting higher, or my heel height is lower 🤣🤣
#ladder
@Creatwittity
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Back home - feet up, and shoes off - after a fabulous day at the
#ScotEdAwards
! My Twitter feed is full of celebration of all that’s good in Scottish education 💕 - and we need to make sure that we shout and share the great work that goes on every single day!
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Back to work tomorrow after a fab trip to New York with my son. Will need to set an alarm for the morning!
#family
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A massive thank you to these four fabulous head teachers who shared their honest reflections about Headship at our So You Want To Be a Head Teacher? session at
#SLF18
this afternoon.
#passion
#leadership
#proud
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A fitting finale at today’s
#ScotEdAwards
- the lifetime achievement award to Ruth Stevenson, a drama teacher from Castlemilk. One of her pupils said on stage “she taught my mum and changed her life, she taught me and changed mine.”
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As Scotland’s schools return for the summer term, welcome back to all those supporting Scotland’s learners. Hope you’ve had a lovely, well deserved break!
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And we are off!
@gtcs
@EducationScot
Standard for Headship awards ceremony in Glasgow this morning - great to see so many here to receive awards, accompanied by friends, family and colleagues
#leadershipGTCS_ES
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Wee visit to my mum’s this afternoon to compare our lockdown haircuts...
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My twitter feed is bursting with proud recipients of the Standard for Headship and In Headship - great to see the photographs celebrating your awards - and all the hard work you have put in to get here!
#leadershipGTCS_ES
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Just finished reading Imperfect Leadership - thank you
@Steve_munby
! Helped me reflect on my own leadership journey, and I loved the chapters on Power and Love, Starting Over and Ethical Leadership.
#systemleadership
#alwayslearning
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Lovely to meet all the Scottish silver award winners and their colleagues, friends and family before tonight’s
@teachingawards
#teachingheroes
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Education Scotland: 'My job is to serve teachers,' says boss Gillian Hamilton | Tes
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Lovely weekend in London with my son. Managed to fit in two shows
#company
#jamielondon
and a trip to ikea!
#lifebalance
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One week in for
@TeamSCEL
at
@EducationScot
- all unpacked and ready for the next chapter! Thanks to all new colleagues at Education Scotland for making us so welcome
#WeAreES
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Back to work tomorrow after a lovely week in Rome with my sister celebrating my big birthday
#WorkLifeBalance
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‘Being a teacher leader is not a bid to be the head teacher, it’s about your learning and the learning of the young people in front of us every single day’ says Fleur
#SCELTLP
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Instead of a Skype meeting this morn, we had a weekly catch up as a walking meeting on a WhatsApp call. Loved it - and really felt the benefit. Misjudged my distance from home though ... and had to walk quickly so as not to miss the start of another meeting!
#teamwork
#wellbeing
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Not that I’m counting... well, okay I am! 15 days until I see Stephen in London ... and I can’t wait. It’s been a loooong time since September 💕
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Lovely evening last night at
@UofGlasgow
celebrating the achievements of Professor Christine Forde, the recipient of this year’s Robert Owen Award. Great to see so many friends, colleagues and Christine’s family there to recognise the impact of her work.
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Lovely to see so many tweets this week from school leaders about to embark on cohort 9 of
#IntoHeadship
. Hard to believe that means it’s 9 years since we launched the programme in partnership with universities and local authorities across Scotland
#partnership
#leadership
Congratulations to all Glasgow school
#leaders
who have been accepted for Cohort 9 of our
@UofGEducation
Into
#Headship
programme. We are delighted at the number of applicants who met our high standards. We look forward to meeting you at the first induction on 22nd May at 1pm ✨
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Back to work today after a lovely festive break with family. Long walks, lovely food, lots of festive tv and a few good movies. Just the switch off I needed. Here’s to a happy and healthy 2024 to friends and colleagues everywhere!
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Stealing this one
@robfmac
- have spent all day today in schools in
@MorayCouncil
with
@MorayCeO
and
@StewartMcLauch2
speaking to lots of teachers who exemplify this, working hard to support every young person they work with, every day
#WorldTeachersDay
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Can't think of a better way to spend a Friday evening - Dr Hook with my son. All ready to sing along...
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Wee wander around
#thebarras
this morning to spot the new
#shuggiebain
mural. “You’ll not remember the city, you were too wee. But there was dancing, lots of dancing.”
#glasgow
#glasgowwalks
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Good luck to
@anne_scel
as she leaves to take up her role as Head of Education
@LandLNLC
- thanks for your hard work, energy & commitment to
@TeamSCEL
and to the Excellence in Headship programme - we will miss you so much but we can’t wait to work with you in your new role!
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Made pancakes tonight with my family via zoom - keeping our chins up until we can kick our heels up!
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My favourite quote of the day from our
#ESBookClub
‘You’re going to make a difference. A lot of times it won’t be huge, it won’t be visible even. But it will matter just the same.’
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Timeline full of back to school tweets & photographs. Great to see so many cheerful greetings from HTs, teachers, parents and learners. Wishing everybody a great year. I’m looking forward, with my
@EducationScot
colleagues, to working with you this year.
#leadership
#partnership
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Amazing achievement - and so well deserved! Lifetime achievement award goes to
@SheelaghRusby
from Dumfries and Galloway
@TeachingAwards
#teachingheroes
@GBrydsonD_G
Woohoo!!!!! Well done
@SheelaghRusby
lifetime achievement award
@TeachingAwards
absolutely brilliant 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Glad I popped into
@EducationScot
#stem
meeting first thing this morning - got to congratulate Hazel on her forthcoming wedding. Even got a wee tiara! Hope you have a fabulous day Hazel:)
#weareES
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My twitter feed is busy tonight with head teachers and aspiring head teachers rightly proud of their success in Into Headship -
@TeamSCEL
and
@EducationScot
are proud of you too! Well done
#sceli2h
#leadership
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Lovely walk along the canal path to help clear my head at the end of the day - accompanied by the
#beingme
playlist - thanks
@LynnTaylorELC
!
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And we’re off...! Delighted to be at this year’s
#womensarwards
with
@GayleGgorman
celebrating her nomination for CEO award of the year.
#WeAreES
Delighted to be at the
@CPGlasgow
to celebrate
@EducationScot
’s
@GayleGgorman
being norminated for CEO of the year at the Scottish Women’s Awards!
✨⭐️Good Luck, Gayle⭐️✨
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Glenburn EarlyLearning and Childcare Centre - winners of the Making A Difference ELCC Award at
#ScotEdAwards
@EducationScot
‘this is what 200 years of early years experience looks like 💕’
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Really good article in this week’s
@TESScotland
from
@Henry_Hepburn
about setting CPD free. Great to see reference to
@TeamSCEL
, now part of
@EducationScot
- ‘at the forefront of efforts to improve CPD’
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This appeared on my twitter feed as I’m listening to Judy Alston talk about responsible leadership at
#BELMAS2018
👇
We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream. ~ Robert Coles
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Massive congratulations
@steve_munby
- well deserved award for outstanding contribution to education
@TeachingAwards
tonight!
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Unintended
@GlowScot
promotion from my son
@stevehamilton_
today as he was perfecting magic tricks...
#lifeinlockdown
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Started my morning at
#SLF18
with a welcome session for new colleagues joining us
@EducationScot
. Great to meet colleagues from across Scotland who are excited about joining the team and continuing to make a difference in Scottish Education
#WeAreES
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When I spoke to new students at
@StrathEDU
earlier this year, I said that there would be people in the room that you hadn’t spoken to yet who would become your lifeline friends. Here are mine…! Lovely afternoon yesterday, reflecting on the 37 years we have known each other ❤️
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Thanks to all my colleagues - including those not in the photo - for their hard work in making today’s awards such a success - great partnership with our
@gtcs
colleagues.
#leadershipgtcs_es
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.
@CarolCampbell4
- people at the heart of system change. Principles, pathways, partnership and people the focus of
#ICSEI2018
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Think this is my new daily viewing 💕
SOUND ON!
Awh. The sweetest thing I have seen today!
😊🎵Don’t worry about a thing🎵🙏🏽...
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Really important conversation on our
@EducationScot
podcast this week - enjoyed my discussion with
@G_Armstrong21
Best-selling author, Graeme Armstrong joins
@GGillHHam1
for this week’s podcast to talk about stepping away from gang culture and substance abuse as a young person to pursue a career in English. The full episode is available Friday 19/4 & we will share the link.
@G_Armstrong21
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Really pleased to be part of today’s
@EducationScot
all staff conference with the
@TeamSCEL
today - great opportunity for us to meet new colleagues and share our learning and aspirations
#WeAreES
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Good write up from
@Henry_Hepburn
@TesScotland
following the launch of Strategic Framework for Parental Involvement, Parental Engagement, Family Learning & Learning at Home
@EducationScot
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Just catching up on all the tweets from yesterday’s Into Headship launch - great to see such positive feedback from participants. A great big thank you to our
@TeamSCEL
and
@EducationScot
colleagues who worked so hard to make it happen
#proud
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.
@JohnSwinney
reinforces the need to empower teachers and leaders to make decisions about young people at
#SLF17
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To all the fabulous women who inspire me, support me, make me laugh...and make me proud to know them.
#IWD2018
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Great to speak to head teachers at our
#EdScotEiH
conference today. Head teachers up for the opportunities and challenges of change, a much more active role in shaping policy - and importantly a desire not just to be listened to, but heard
#leadership
#informeddisruptors
Excellence in Headship is a national network of learning headteachers in Scotland. Today,
@EdScotPLL
is hosting its EIH conference with over a hundred HTs joining. Chris French currently kicking us off with
@GGillHHam1
welcoming participants
#EdScotEIH
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Congratulations Alyson Dobson, head teacher
@official_DHS
- Head Teacher of the year!
#ScotEdAwards
@EducationScot
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‘No curriculum development without teacher development’ - Stenhouse 1975 - this is as relevant today as it was then says
@MarkRPriestley
at the
#EISempowerment
PL conference this morning
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Great to be back at the Scottish Education Awards, first since 2019. Lovely to see so many young people and school staff excited and proud to be here.
#ScotEdAwards
@EducationScot
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Throwback to the eighties last night at Edinburgh Castle Bananarama, Altered Images ... and the Bluebells! Great concert
#HappyWeekend
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Already enthralled by the discussion with Professor Carla Rinaldi and Professor Dr Ger Graus at our
@EducationScot
conversation.
#reggioemilia
#earlyyears
#learning
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We are sorry to lose you... but your new team are lucky to have you! You’ve been a fabulous member of our team and we wish you lots of luck in your new role - and look forward to continuing to work with you with your new hat on:)
I've begun a new role this week as part of
@scotgov
. Still working on professional learning & leadership, but from a different perspective. Thank you to the whole
@TeamSCEL
family for all your support. Looking forward to an exciting future for you ahead as part of
@EducationScot
!
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Loved meeting this fabulous group of young people and talking about the mentors in violence protection programme
@caldersideac
Really important work that’s making a difference.
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Netherburn Primary School absolutely delighted to win the Making A Difference Primary Award! Think we all had a wee tear in our eye.
#ScotEdAwards
@EducationScot
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David Clifford from Alva Academy wins the Teacher of the Year, recognising the work of every teacher for the last two years and dedicates the award to his pupils.
#ScotEdAwards
@EducationScot
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Wishing learners the best of luck as the SQA exams start today - and thank you to teachers, lecturers and all who have supported Scotland's learners to get to this point! Support is available for learners - check out the Exam Mindset Guide and e-Sgoil live webinars.
Good luck to all learners sitting
@sqanews
exams. Remember
@eSgoil
live evening study support webinars are available👇& the Exam Mindset Guide has been created with
@HeadStrongMind5
to support learners with their mental health -
#NeLO
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Fairview School - winners of the parent and family learning award at the
#ScotEdAwards
@EducationScot
- so good to see the delighted faces of the young folk!
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Fabulous performances from talented young people
@stninianshs
this morning for the launch of the Scottish Education Awards - thank you to all the staff and young folk who took part. A great morning!
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.
@janetifimust
great advice for parents about what matters - fosters a love of learning
#SPTC2017
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Was privileged to be at the
@TeachingAwards
tea yesterday to see Ruth from
@castlemilk_high
receive her silver lifetime achievement award. Fabulous afternoon
#teachersmatter
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An emotional night tonight. Back in a theatre for the first time since before the pandemic. Loved being back, and loved
#waitress
!
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I’ve watched this video many times-and never tire of it. Never underestimate the power and influence of a great teacher...
"...and then he changed my life" - football star Ian Wright pays tribute to his PE teacher Sydney Pigden
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Great advice for a new year from
@hive_ow
... with little fret and no moment wasted...❤️
A very Happy New Year to all educators, children and young people returning to their respective schools for 2020! Wishing all great health, happiness and success this year, with little fret and no moment wasted on what doesn’t serve you.❤️
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This 👇👇 My mum still says to me as I leave or if I’m going out ‘give me a wee ring when you get home’ 💕
Mum will often
#WhatsApp
to ask if I got home ok. Usually get irritated and respond something along lines “I’m not a child”. But today won’t get annoyed, won’t reply sarcastically .. but instead will write straight bk “yes. Love you”.
#SarahEverard
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Breakfast learning this morning with
@SimonBreakspear
and head teachers as part of our
@EdScotPLL
series of international blethers
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At the end of our week of
#SLFconversations
a massive thank you to our
@EducationScot
team for all the work to make these happen - a fabulous team effort!
#proud
#leadership
Final keynote this week with ⭐️ Professor Allison Skerrett - considering the challenges of transnational learners and communities.
#SLFConversations
@GGillHHam1
@EducationScot
⭐️
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A day late for
#womenedwednesday
- but worth sharing the influence of my granny.... think she would have been proud of her moment on the big screen!!
@GillianSCEL
sharing her leadership journey and reflecting on the influence of others on who you are as a leader
@TeamSCEL
@EducationScot
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Great to have Alison and Andy on board - looking forward to seeing how Excellence in Headship develops further - it’s a really important programme for head teachers, with really powerful feedback so far.
#learningsystem
#WeAreES
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#nationalsiblingsday
Looking forward to seeing my wee sis again soon - when we are able to travel beyond Scotland 💕
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Great end to a really busy week - Banksy CutandRun exhibition at GOMA. Loved it - challenging, clever and funny. Definitely worth a visit. I’ll be back before it closes!
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