It all began last autumn. Two teachers were “talking” by direct message on Twitter, glasses of wine in hand, lamenting that they could never get to education conferences and events because they seemed always to be in London or the South of England.
Later that evening, one of them, Debra Kidd, an advanced skills English and drama teacher at Saddleworth School in Oldham, put a question to Twitter. If someone organised an education conference in the North of England, would people attend?
The response was overwhelming. Within hours she and Emma Hardy, a part-time year 2 teacher at Willerby Carr Lane Primary School in East Riding, had secured all their speakers and guests, and hundreds of school leaders and teachers promised they would be there.
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