Stephen Munday, Chief Executive, The Cam Academy Trust & Executive Principal, Comberton Village College & President of The Chartered College of Teaching: Doing the right thing and working together
Release Date: 07/21/2019
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info_outlineIn this episode, Stephen Munday (Chief Executive, The Cam Academy Trust; Executive Principal, Comberton Village College & President of The Chartered College of Teaching), shares his thoughts on:
In his interview, Stephen shares his thoughts on:
- How a cup of tea with his Mum’s friend was the catalyst to becoming the President of the Chartered College of Teaching
- His purpose and what he finds deeply inspiring about teaching
- Which role in a school prepares you well for becoming a headteacher
- What you need to keep reminding yourself as a headteacher
- The biggest thing he has learned about headship
- The biggest challenge of his career and how he overcame it
- The moral duty that led to his school becoming a multi-academy trust
- What he welcomes about changes to the Ofsted framework
- What he questions about changes to the Ofsted Framework
- How schools can reduce the problems with exclusions
- The question school leaders need to ask themselves to reduce workload
- The best CPD he’s ever done
- How to get external support when needs can’t be met in-house
- How to judge the quality of external CPD
- How the Chartered College can solve the budget crisis
- How schools can ensure they ring-fence enough money for investing in professional development
- Tips for schools on how to balance the books
- How he’s using technology to make professional development more scalable and accessible across the trust
- The one question he would ask every headteacher in the country if he could
- Why he is optimistic about the future of education and the role the Chartered College has to play
- What one ‘less positive’ student shouted as Ofsted approached the school to begin an inspection
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