Vaughan Edwards
@MrEdwardsV
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Leading Strong Confident Kind Education and Crossfit Strong Confident Kind. Once a school leader, now helping all kinds of people get stronger.
Bath, England
Joined January 2017
We are expected to believe that councils fretting about cuts for so long is a smokescreen? Same gvt who believe people who can’t pay bills need to budget better. They assume we are thick!
Councils across England are going bankrupt because of poor financial management and not a lack of money, the head of a new local government watchdog has said ⬇️
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This is great. Is it just me or was the way we did ‘inclusion’ 15 years ago like this? Until we were told we were ‘pandering’! The swings of educational politics can harm a generation eh @Canavaned1971
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I love this.
Just read of the sad loss of Sir Tim Brighouse. This list has been on the wall of my class then Office for ever and was and is the most important list I’ve ever had. It’s constantly reminded me that teaching is more than what happens in lessons and that it’s about being human.
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Thought I had muted this guy but he snuck in somewhere. Let’s use children’s trauma as a political tool shall we? What a great educator he must be…
‘Trauma-informed’ is this year’s behavioural Brain Gym. Schools, LAs, beware
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Agree. And in my life it has been proven that these misnamed ‘good’ schools do not necessarily pump out good people…
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The time freed up from being ‘Ofsted ready’ and the capacity and creativity created by absence of fear would truly transform education. It has take someone’s death to bring this into public focus but it has not been in vain.
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Wow. This is very serious indeed. Ofsted accused of ‘misleading’ inquest into death of teacher Ruth Perry
theguardian.com
Inspectors say claims made to coroner about wellbeing training following death of Reading headteacher are ‘nonsense’
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This is the reality
@MrEdwardsV I remember passing some attendance case studies to an inspector, including one with significant trauma, and the inspector not even opening/accepting it. She pushed it back and said I don’t want your excuses. I replied they are young people not excuses. End of conversation.
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‘Excuses’ inspectors would say when you tried to give context. There have been bullies in the system for years. Complaints from schools were bullied away in similar fashion. Ruth’s tragedy has made leaders brave but it should not have come to this.
Ruth Perry told husband lead Ofsted inspector ‘was a bully’, inquest hears
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This has to be a turning point. Justice for the pain of those charged with nurturing the next generation. And in the wrong hands it can turn MATs into fearful places where blame overtakes motivation. Ofsted’s brand of school improvement is not fit for purpose.
We are three days away from the beginning of the inquest into Ruth Perry’s tragic death, which followed an OFSTED inspection at her school, Caversham Primary…
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Ofsted will have five lawyers paid for by the taxpayer at Ruth Perry’s inquest. Her family have had legal aid declined- crowdfunding to make it fairer. Coroners have cited Ofsted as factor in deaths of 10 teachers already - surely this is a turning point.
gofundme.com
Just days before the start of the inquest into the death of Ruth Perry –… Julia Waters needs your support for Fund family’s legal costs for Ruth Perry inquest
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Increasingly amazed at how well Olympic Weightlifting supports teenagers with ASD. Discovering Identity, grounding and power as well as being unique but working out with a team of others are some of the things I have loved seeing#strongerthanyouthink
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Oh my goodness yes!
Anyone ever think we're massively overcomplicating education?
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And so the pendulum swings. Lucky ones are in school on the ‘let’s create belonging’ side. Unlucky ones on the ‘zero tolerance and non-negotiables’ side. We work with those youngsters who need to belong more than anything. Glad to see this.
We need to take a culture of belonging seriously if we are going to be able to tackle attendance and challenging behaviour. That is the view of our four panel guests for the latest Tes Magazine Leadership Forum webinar, launched today. Here's an outline:
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Mmmm. Schools that became unemotional, warnings and consequences based and seeing inclusion as either ‘in class’ or ‘in the work room’, now wondering if that might be unappealing. Interesting stuff.
"People sometimes think it’s a bit soft when you talk about belonging, but it has been absolutely central to everything we have done" The 4th @tes Magazine Leadership forum is here! Why belonging is important, how to build it, and how to measure it. https://t.co/fyXuMJniQz
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STOP! Think about what you can do now that you couldn’t before. And what you can lift now that you couldn’t before. And the strong shapes and athletic movements you now have. Then pat yourself on the back for having the courage to try CrossFit that first, scary time.#WWRD?
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I think the synthesis of what everyone who works with children hates about the SATs, Performance tables and OFSTED is that they all harm children’s love of learning. How can that be anything other than a travesty? Or do the powers that be want stressed and scared learners?
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Be a good idea to fund education properly then wouldn’t it @karren_brady
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An inspectorate which negatively affects teachers’ ability to teach with energy and passion, their clarity to impart learning and be trusted to do so in a way plethora of ways in useless. So it is currently useless. Take unnecessary additional stress away!
tes.com
A new inquiry, chaired by a former schools minister, will look at ways to make school inspections ‘fairer’ amid controversy over Ofsted’s approach
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Workshops are different these days. The CrossFit Strong Confident Kind team are a great family, like my colleagues were in education. But the only ‘stakes’ we have to worry about are improving our athletes’ gymnastics skills!
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