Join us for an exciting virtual roundtable with Patrick Cozier, Phil Denton, Allana Gay and Rhys Howells, where we will develop policy and practice recommendations to improve supply teaching for learners, schools/colleges and early years settings, the supply teaching workforce and system overall.
Date: Wednesday 19th March
Time: 4pm – 5.30pm
Our FED Partners have said how important it is for our Education Workforce to be energised, empowered, well equipped and valued with a clear sense of purpose. We believe a whole-system, strategic, long-term approach is needed to the recruitment and retention of our education profession. This should also apply to our Supply Teaching workforce. During this FEDSpace, we will explore the challenges and opportunities surrounding cover and supply teaching across all our educational settings and consider the following questions:
- How can we create a more empowered and engaged supply teaching workforce?
- What would a national plan for Supply Teaching look like that works for teachers, education settings and the system overall?
Panellists:
Patrick Cozier
Patrick is an experienced Secondary School Headteacher of almost 20 years. He leads Highgate Wood School in Haringey. In addition to his day job, he is a member of Headteacher’s Roundtable who consult and advise senior officials on national education policy. He serves as a trustee of the national charity Show Racism the Red Card (on which he is Co-Vice Chair). More locally, he takes a leading role in the work of the Haringey Racial Equity Group (part of the Haringey Education Partnership) on its focus to reduce racial inequality and improve the outcomes and experiences for children of colour. As a member of the black community, he is passionate about seeking equality, justice and fair outcomes for people of colour. He is currently working on what he refers to as the ‘Calm Leadership’ Approach.
Phil Denton
Phil is a former headteacher and the author of The First 100 Days: Lessons in Leadership from the Football Bosses. With a career spanning various educational roles, Phil has taught history and worked across schools in the North of England and Saudi Arabia. He is now the Director of Education for Opogo, an innovative EdTech platform. Phil’s professional interests include driving the aspirations of school leaders and creating successful leadership blueprints. His work with Premier League managers and business leaders has informed his approach to educational leadership.
Allana Gay
Allana is a headteacher at a North London Primary School. Her experience as an educator and school leader arches over secondary and primary schools all of whom have been in challenging or deprived circumstances. Allana shares her leadership experiences across the sectors to encourage primary and secondary schools to work in true partnership. Allana seeks to change the outward face of education by ensuring equality for all within the education sector. Allana co-founded the BAMEed Network to encourage more BAME educators into the profession and to ensure they are supported to progress within their careers.
Rhys Howells
Rhys is Co-Owner and Managing Director of the Eteach Group. Having worked on the front lines of online education recruitment for over 10 years, Rhys has an intimate knowledge of online jobseeker behaviour, school/MAT recruitment best practice and the challenges of supply teacher recruitment in a digital world. Rhys leads Eteach on the design of its products and services, works closely with MATs on multi-channel online recruitment strategies and is dedicated to revolutionising the UK education recruitment sector. The Eteach Group specialise in three areas: digital recruitment marketing specifically for the education sector, utilising its powerful jobs platform Eteach.com along with cutting edge online marketing tools and expertise to deliver tangible results for schools and MATs. We also focus on recruitment process efficiency, deploying the UKs leading education applicant tracking system to over 2000 schools nationwide, streamlining all areas of the process from attraction through to hiring. Lastly, we have developed CoverStaff, a groundbreaking supply teacher management software, that seeks to rebalance the scales and put more control over supply teaching back into the schools and teachers themselves against a current overreliance on traditional agencies.
Date: Wednesday 19th March
Time: 4pm – 5.30pm
