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Through the real-life stories of women leaders in education, drawn from across the #WomenEd community, this book offers guidance and inspiration on how to rise above challenging situations and find personal and professional growth. It's time to:
-Tackle imposter syndrome
-Know your worth
-Ask for what you need
-Call out unacceptable behavior
-Put yourself first when necessary
-Raise your voice until it's heard
It's time to own your journey and your story - it's time to become 10% braver.
List of contents
Part 1: Braver in the workplace
Chapter 1: Being 10% braver in Higher Education - Dorothy Newbury-Birch
Chapter 2: Coffee, Calpol and co-headship - Claire Mitchell and Emma Turner
Chapter 3: Taking the heat out of the menopause in the workplace - Michelle Cooke
Chapter 4: Learning to dance in the rain - Clare Erasmus
Chapter 5: Dynamic part-time leadership - Frances Aston
Chapter 6: Making middle leadership count - Emily Rankin
Chapter 7: Being a woman and a leader with a disability - Ruth Golding
Chapter 8: Investing in ourselves as leaders: a guilty pleasure? - Kerry Jordan-Daus and Lacey Austin
Part 2: Advocating for others
Chapter 9: When your partner is a female leader - Andy Mitchell
Chapter 10: Stand by all women - Keziah Featherstone with Jon Chaloner, Vic Goddard, Dan Morrow and Malcolm Richards
Chapter 11: If there isn't a seat around the table, be the one who buys the chairs - Hilary Goldsmith
Chapter 12: What governors can do to build inclusive workplaces - Lesley Dolben and Natalie de Silva
Part 3: Braving the change
Chapter 13: Retirement is not a dirty word - Fiona McSorley
Chapter 14: Returning to teaching and leadership after illness - Rachael Paget
Chapter 15: Being an international school leader - Liz Free with Sue Aspinall, Ruth Barsby and Pauline O'Brien
Chapter 16: A small fish in a big pond: educational leadership outside of a school environment - Lizana Oberholzer
Chapter 17: Overcoming the challenges of a woman leader with a disability in education - Sharon McCormack
Part 4: Daring to be different
Chapter 18: Being taken seriously as a young leader: Can I see your ID? - Gemma Sant
Chapter 19: Why it's 'in' to be an introverted leader? - Alex Fairlamb
Chapter 20: Let me take you on a journey... - Jules Daulby
Chapter 21: Walking Gaily Forward - Lisa Hannay
Part 5: Owning our bravery
Chapter 22: Brave vulnerability - Debra Rutley
Chapter 23: Being comfortable and authentic as an LGBT+ leader and role model - Claire Nicholls
Chapter 24: Asylum - Felicity King
Chapter 25: Slaying the dragon of imposter syndrome - Imogen Senior
Chapter 26: Moving mindsets and failing forward - Jacinta Calzada-Mayronne and Melissa Egri-McCauley
Part 6: Tackling an unfair system
Chapter 27: We can't be what we can't see: Make sure you're not the one blocking the view - Penny Rabiger
Chapter 28: What to do if you find yourself working for a bully - Beatus Magistra
Chapter 29: Pregnant and screwed - Hannah Dalton and Kiran Mahil
Chapter 30: Dealing with the motherhood penalty as a leader - Naomi Shenton
Chapter 31: Time to say goodbye - Bukky Yusuf
Chapter 32: Inspiring the future - Vivienne Porritt
About the author
Keziah Featherstone is a co-founder, trustee and strategic leader for #WomenEd and a member of the Headteachers’ Roundtable, a non-political educational think-tank. After twenty years in senior leadership, she currently she lives with her husband, daughter, three cats and three pugs in the West Midlands where she is proud to be Executive Headteacher of Q3 Academy Tipton, a part of the Mercian Trust, her second headship. Keziah has written English educational resources for Pearson and Teachit, as well as articles for publications such as Tes, The Guardian and Schools Week, she also co-edited 10% Braver: Inspiring Women to Lead Education and Being 10% Braver.
Joyously, Vivienne Porritt OBE is a co-founder, trustee and Global Strategic Leader of WomenEd, a global charity which empowers and elevates aspiring and existing women leaders in education.
As a leadership consultant, Vivienne supports school and trust leaders with vision, strategy, professional learning and development, impact evaluation and DEIJ and she is also a coach and holds several governance roles.
Vivienne is a former secondary headteacher and Vice President of the Chartered College of Teaching as well as Director for School Partnerships at University College London, Institute of Education.
She writes for practitioner and academic journals and is co-editor of 10% Braver: Inspiring Women to Lead Education (Sage, 2019) and Being 10% Braver (Sage/Corwin, 2021).
Summary
Real-life stories of courage from the #WomenEd community.
