Multiple surveys make clear that teachers care deeply about school culture when sizing up jobs. Here’s what that means.

Today I had the opportunity to present with Dr Pedro Moreno da Fonseca of the International Labour Organisation to the ILO’s Africa Skills Hub.

We discussed the value of thinking about career, career development and career guidance to the achievement of a range of policy aims for African countries. We presented the career development framework that we developed for the ILO last year and talked about the range of ways that it could be used in policy and practice.

Hopefully this will lead to some new engagement with the tools.

This is what we presented…

Yesterday Keren Coney and I presented to careers advisers in the Solihull Careers Hub. This was part of a new initiative by the Hub to provide a developmental space for careers advisers. We really welcome this and are keen to support both careers leaders and careers advisers and recognise that sometimes this is best done together, and sometimes seperately.

We were asked to talk about career guidance and social justice. The presentation follows, but essentially it consists of me talking about the 5 signposts model that I developed with Rie Thomsen and Ronald Sultana, and Keren using this framework to provide a deeper example of her social justice work with neurodiverse students.

Hope that you find it useful…

Better money is a solid first step. But teachers need to be treated as professionals if they are to stay.

Teachers are getting paid more in the Charleston, S.C. district—thanks in part to their champion in administration.

Helping teachers advocate for themselves is key to success.