301: A fresh look at Special Education Services with Leddy Glenn
Leddy Glenn’s passion for Special Education began when she was working at a non-profit and realized the individuals she enjoyed working with most were ones with exceptionalities. When she had this epiphany, she left her job and went back to school to become a special education teacher. Leddy learned how each aspect of the special education process could evolve because she has sat at every seat at an Individual Education Plan (IEP) meeting as the student, special education teacher, and parent. This is why she created Fresh Thinking Special Education Advisors.
“In the field of special education services, my goal every day is to identify and apply educational approaches to help all involved succeed.”
Leddy Glenn holds a Master’s of Arts in Speech Communication from University of Central Missouri. She also holds a Master’s of Arts in Teaching and Learning from Avila University. She has been facilitating individual and group exploration of abilities for over 20 years.
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300: British Army Supporting Education with Richard Watts
Richard Watts is head of Educational Marketing at the British Army. He is a former secondary school teacher with over a decade of classroom experience.
We discuss how the British Army encourages students to look at Remembrance through the prism of representation, diverse voices and personal histories.
BASE – Engaging resources and inspiring workshops to support teachers and career development services
- Free school visits
- Free work experience
- Careers education
- Funding university
- Free resources including their LGBTQ+ Voices PSHE assembly and lesson which won best free resource at the 2021 Teach Secondary Awards!
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https://apply.army.mod.uk/base
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299: How to get accepted to schools like Harvard and Stanford with The College Wizard
The story of how Harvey Wizard became an internet multimillionaire in the early days of affiliate marketing is told in the New York Times Bestseller, “Get Rich Click”. Harvey is a former Dartmouth District Enrollment Director, ad executive, serial 7-figure entrepreneur, film producer, bestselling author and globetrotting standup comedian. Today, Harvey will tell us not only how to get accepted to schools like Harvard and Stanford (without unethical shenanigans), but also how the same approach can enable anyone to win at even life’s most competitive games.
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How to Make Yourself Happy and Remarkably Less Disturbable
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298: Absolute Internship with Fredrik van Huynh
Absolute Internship matches talented university students and graduates with international work experience placements in elite cities around the world. With over 60 university partnerships and more than 800 host companies across the globe, we help ambitious individuals stand out in an increasingly crowded job market. Our programs offer unbeatable work experience, incredible adventure, and a summer to remember!
Their goal is to inspire accomplished scholars to succeed. They facilitate this through their award-winning internship programs in Barcelona, Beijing, Hong Kong, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm and Tokyo. With over 30 industry specialisations to choose from, we provide opportunities to develop a professional network, meet diverse, driven and like-minded students and learn from successful business leaders and industry experts.
You have invested in your education. Now it’s time to invest in yourself. With over 5,000 past alumni and a reputable program in the industry according world-leading media publications such as The New York Times, BBC News, Bloomberg, Forbes and The Financial Times, Absolute Internship is without doubt well-positioned to help you with your international internship experience abroad.
I chat with co-founder Fredrik van Huynh
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https://absoluteinternship.com/
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297: How to recruit school governors and trustees with National Governance Association
New research from the National Governance Association has found that vacancies for school governors and trustees are at their highest since 2016. 67 per cent of governing boards reported at least one vacancy and of these, 38 per cent reported two or more vacancies. The results are part of the NGA’s 2022 annual governance survey which also found that, post pandemic, 63 per cent of respondents reported issues with recruitment compared to 55 per cent in 2019.
Governing boards are responsible for the strategic direction of a school or trust and their decisions impact hundreds, if not thousands of pupils. With the typical board consisting of nine or ten governors or trustees, the high vacancy rate means some boards may struggle to drive improvement and provide sufficient scrutiny and financial oversight.
Overall, the NGA estimates there are currently more than 20,000 vacancies.
The research also found that the number of governors and trustees under 40 was just 6 per cent – the lowest on record since 2015. Half of governors and trustees are over 60 years (51 per cent) but just 1 per cent were under 30. Schools and trusts benefit hugely from the experience of older governors and trustees, but without younger volunteers also joining boards, they are missing the input of those who have recently experienced school.
Anju Dhir, who became a school governor in her mid-thirties, believes governors need to be more visible to young people: “There are more governors 80 years and over than under 30. The issue is that young people simply don’t know what we do – or that we even exist. This is a huge waste of human capital, for both schools and our young people. Becoming a governor is an incredible way to develop your career and can start from as young as 18 – how many young people normally get to join the board? For governing boards having someone who has recently experienced our education system is invaluable. Governing has helped me to develop in my career, as well as being a satisfying way to give back to my local community.”
To help with governor and trustee recruitment the NGA has launched a new film demystifying governance and encouraging people to find out more about how they can help the schools in their community. It’s part of the NGA’s Visible Governance initiative to make governance more visible in society.
Emma Knights, CEO of the National Governance Association said: “School and trust governance needs to be recognised and celebrated for its positive role in ensuring pupils and staff can flourish. Huge thanks are owed to all those committed volunteers carrying out this role with such care and reflection without a song and a dance. These findings make for sobering reading: schools need more good people and we need to get the message out far and wide to engage the thousands we need to fill governance roles. This is why we have launched a new film today explaining what school governors and trustees do and their role in helping our schools to succeed.”
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https://www.nga.org.uk/News/Campaigns/Role-of-governors-and-trustees.aspx
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