Autumn Term Leadership Forum | Thursday 21 November 2024

Intended for school leaders from all educational settings, our Leadership Forums link to the best of local, regional and national.

We invite you to join us and like-minded colleagues for our 2024 Autumn Term Leadership Forum on: Thursday 21 November 2024 | 1530 - 1715 | Online

Sarah McGinnis | Ofsted Assistant Regional Director will be leading on updates followed by an opportunity for Q&A.

Professor (Dr) Tanya Ovenden-Hope | Dean of Place and Social Purpose and Professor of Education, Plymouth Marjon University will speak on Educational Isolation: Can a school’s place limit its access to resources and consider place-based disadvantage and the way it reduces coastal and rural school access to resources, especially teachers.

Key Updates from SWIFT
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​Target Audience
School leaders from all school settings and types are welcome to attend. 

​Event Fee
The event is FREE to colleagues from SWIFT Member schools and LSSW NPQs Programme Members.
For colleagues from other schools the fee is £35. 

More Information about Our Speakers 

Sarah McGinnis has extensive experience of leading inspections of primary and secondary schools in a range of contexts and initial teacher training providers. She has also worked on national research projects.
 
More recently, Sarah has experience as a Senior HMI and is now the Assistant Regional Director for the South West. Before joining Ofsted, Sarah held middle and senior leadership positions in large secondary schools which included oversight of Post-16 provision. Her responsibilities included leading teaching and learning and curriculum development, self-evaluation and quality assurance, working with departments and individuals to raise achievement. 

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Professor (Dr) Tanya Ovenden-Hope is also Visiting Professor at Canterbury Christ Church University, and is in her second term as an elected board member of the International Council of Education in Teaching (ICET), the British Educational Research Association (BERA) and as an invited advisory board member for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Teacher Development Fund. She also holds invited advisory and voluntary roles across a range of Education organisations and charities.  
 
Tanya’s research explores rural, coastal and small schools, using the concept of ‘Educationally Isolation’ to explain how a schools’ place can limit access to resources, such as a high-quality workforce. Tanya has maintained a special focus in her research on teachers and issues relating to their recruitment and retention, being driven by a commitment to championing equity in education. Her work in this area has been used by Academics and Governments internationally.  

Tanya is a committed and enthusiastic educationalist with over three decades experience in schools, colleges and universities in England as a teacher, teacher educator, educational leader and educational researcher. Tanya holds the highest professional status for teaching and learning in schools (Fellow Chartered College of Teaching), colleges (Fellow Society of Education and Training) and Universities (Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy). 

The author of numerous papers, reports, articles and books, Tanya is dedicated to exploring social inequity and educational disparity and has focused on the challenges for coastal, rural and small schools, specialising on issues of teacher recruitment and retention and professional development, since 2008.  Her two latest books are: "The Early Career Framework: origins, outcomes and opportunities" (2022) and "Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention: contextual challenges from international perspectives" (2020). Tanya’s most recent research report is, "Locality Matters: understanding how to support the challenge of educationally isolated schools" here 

Tanya is the Education Research lead for the University, leading UoA 23 in REF 2021 and is Director of the Research and Knowledge Exchange Group - Context Agency Place and Education (CAPE) and an active PhD supervisor and Director of Studies. Tanya developed and leads Plymouth Marjon University | Cornwall, and continues to extend Marjon’s contribution to place-based equity through transformational opportunities in higher education engagement for places that have been previously under-resourced. 

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