C.E. Jottings

Ex-Rotherham & Sheffield Children's Director Sonia Sharp quits role in Australia

The BBC is reporting that Sonia Sharp has quite her job in Australia. As head of children's services in Rotherham from 2005-2008, she preceded Joyce Thacker, who resigned in September after weeks of pressure following the publication of the Jay Report that revealed the level of abuse of mainly young girls in Rotherham and the failure of the 'safeguarding' services to prevent it. From Rotherham, Sonia Sharp came to Sheffield, leaving for the post in Victoria, Australia in 2012. See... Read more →

So what does Bryant Jennings know of conductive education? #CondEd

Bryant Jennings is the underdog. Bookmakers have him at 8-1. The triple world title holder Wladimir Klitschko is taller by at least three inches and 30lbs in weight. The world champion has won more fights than his opponent, Bryant Jennings has had fights. No. I've not suddenly become an expert on boxing. No more than is Bryant Jennings an expert on Conductive Education. And yet ... And yet, he's the underdog, he says, because "people only look at the size... Read more →

A couple of pretty scams. Nice work if you can get it.

Here's a couple of pretty scams. Nice work if you can get it. The first scam concerns the CEO of the Anchor Trust, Jane Ashcroft, who reportedly has seen her pay rise by £35,000 over the past 4 years to an eye-watering £420,000 pa. The Chair of Anchor Trust trotted out the wholly familiar excuse for this state of affairs that "Anchor is a large and complex organisation .... competing successfully with commercial care providers". You can see what the... Read more →

Does conductive education work?

> All day breakfast served until 1230. > Happy Hour 4.00 - 6.00pm > Conductive education therapy. ~ Does conductive education work? ~ Does education work? ~ ... or for that matter, does schooling work? "More than half of our leaders in the City, media, judiciary and medicine were privately educated." "The 500 highest performing comprehensives take only half the national average number of disadvantaged pupils" "You are mote than twice as likely to go to university if you are... Read more →

You want evidence-based education practice? Depends what you mean. How about this?

In conductive education, we are familiar with the cry for evidence - which usually ends up with referencing medical research, something that's never struck me as especially helpful in the classroom or in schools (or in working with adults conductively, for that matter.) But this is a bit different and we might find it more helpful in CE settings. It's from a newish blog (perhaps started in April 2014) Evidence-Based Educational Leadership. In the most recent posting, today, the writer... Read more →