Thursday 19th September... Ignite 2013 Igniting Quality: The Route to Excellence
Following our stimulating Ignite 2012 Conference, 'Igniting Success through Courageous Leadership', we are now planning another exhilarating and professionally rewarding day, going boldly where others fear to tread!
We know that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. The current educational landscape is certainly a challenging terrain for all of us. The route to excellence is paved with quality, but how does each of us take the first step from our own starting point along the route to excellence? Where are the avalanches and ambushes, detours and distractions and strategic vantage points? How will we recognise the unique signposts to success for each of our students, staff members and the local community?
'Igniting Quality: The route to Excellence', will provide an intriguing map to guide delegates from their own personal and professional starting points towards the summit of their aspirations, focusing on dimensions of quality, building effective and enduring partnerships and creating motivated and inspiring teams.
Welcome to our world!
Camila Batmanghelidjh is the CEO and founder of Kids Company, the children's charity she founded in 1996 to provide practical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city children.
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE is a former wheelchair racer and currently is a parliamentarian and television presenter. She was born in Cardiff, Wales. Tanni was born with spina bifida. She is considered to be one of the most successful disabled athletes in the UK. She graduated from Loughborough University in 1991 with a BA (Hons) degree in Politics and Social Administration. She was christened Carys Davina Grey, but her sister referred to her as "tiny" when she first saw her, pronouncing it "tanni" and the name stuck.
Russell Hobby is General Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, (NAHT) an independent trade union and professional association representing 28,000 members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Pat Smart is the Executive Headteacher of Greet and Conway Primary Schools in Birmingham. She has taught in five local authorities in both urban and rural environments as well as in an international school. She is an experienced ‘trouble shooter’, having taken over headships of schools in crisis on 3 occasions.
Michael Cladingbowl HMI - On 1 January 2013, he was appointed as National Director, Schools. He holds this post alongside the role of Director, Improvement which he has held since May 2012.
In February 2012 Dr John Stephens joined the National College as Director of School Improvement. An important part of John’s illustrious career includes the research he carried out into aspects of leadership, particularly within the context of government policy-making and implementation.
In 1992 Estelle Morris entered Parliament and in 2001 became the Secretary of State for Education and Skills. She followed this with 2 years as a Minister at the Department of Culture Media and Sport and left Parliament in 2005.
After working in the London Borough of Barking and in Staffordshire Eric Wood was appointed as Deputy County Education Officer for Warwickshire in 1989 and as County Education Officer from 1995 to 2006.
News
> EARLY BIRD SPECIAL - £200 per delegate for everyone who registers before 30th April 2013
> ...'Excellence has a waiting room. You never get there, but while in the waiting room, you're charged with an energy that allows you a return'. Recent quote from Camila in the Sunday Times
> Extract from Sunday Times 24.3.13 interview with Camila Batmanghelidjh (Key Note speaker) regarding her views on Femininity
.....,whether it's being the best doctor, the best fashion designer, the best artist, teacher or carpenter, what unites all these individual functions across disparate fields is the moment of excellence. Excellence crosses the boundaries of any area and becomes a metaphysical experience, the closest of which is beauty.
> Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has agreed to join us as a Key Note Speaker
> Brilliant news... Camila Batmanghelidjh will be joining us as the opening speaker
> Michael Cladingbowl HMI, Director, Schools has confirmed that he will be addressing the conference>
> Russell Hobby, General Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers has just confirmed that he will be a Key Note speaker
> Baroness Morris of Yardley (formerly Estelle Morris, Minister for Education in the Labour Government) will be returning to The Panel session in the afternoon
> EARLY BIRD SPECIAL - £200 per delegate for everyone who registers before 31st March 2013
