Posted in Interviews, Jobs on Feb 14th, 2008 13 Comments »
No, not some advert for a stage show. I’ve been appointed as (Acting) Director of Education and Children’s Services for East Lothian Council. I went through a very rigorous interview process involving a 90 minute in-tray exercise on Tuesday and 90 minute interview on Wednesday in front of a panel of seven elected members.
I’m excited [...]
Posted in Finance, Jobs, Leadership, personal on Jan 19th, 2008 3 Comments »
No posts for over a week but life has been something of a blur.
I’m probably earning my corn at the moment with some major challenges facing us in relation to efficiency savings having to be made in the education budget. Every meeting and piece of correspondence seems to be connected to this issue and I’ve got 100 [...]
Posted in Curriculum for Excellence, Jobs, Partnerships, Seabird Centre on Oct 8th, 2007 No Comments »
We put out information to schools in East lothian today about a unique secondment opportunity as the Schools Communicator for Dynamic Earth and the Scottish Seabird Centre. We are partners in the venture and are linking it our strategy for promoting A Curriculum for Excellence
The secondment will be for the rest of this session - in the [...]
Posted in CPD, Ideas, Jobs, Leadership, Learning and teaching, recuitment on Apr 30th, 2007 4 Comments »
I met a teacher today who has been applying for Principal teacher jobs without success.
One of the problems is that many jobs ask for leadership experience - but how do you get that experience if you’re not in a leadership position?
Many people manage to gain such experience by being in the right-place-at-the-right-time - i.e. they are lucky enough [...]
Posted in CPD, Jobs, Personnel, recuitment on Apr 1st, 2007 7 Comments »
In a meeting this week we were exploring some of the essential criteria we might use for promoted posts such as Principal Teacher, Depute Head Teacher and Head Teacher.
For example -
Should anyone who wishes to become a Depute Head Teacher have been a Principal Teacher in more than one school?
Should a prospective Head Teacher have held promoted [...]
Posted in Jobs on Mar 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
We now have four vacancies for Primary Head Teachers in East Lothian.
Two are currently advertised - Musselburgh Burgh Primary School and Prestonpans Primary School, whilst the other two, Longniddry Primary School and East Linton Primary School will be advertised commencing 18th April.
We held our third Head Teacher conference of the session yesterday and I was [...]
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