Five women having afternoon tea on a Sunday – very normal, yes? These particular five women, however, were planning ways to draw on an amazing grassroots response to a series of blog posts on @staffrm about women leaders in education.
It began when @helenamarsh81 asked What Glass Ceiling? and @jillberry102 followed with Lost Leaders, asking how to encourage more women to make the leap to leadership. Over a weekend at the end of April, there was an overwhelming response on Twitter and a suggestion that we should have “a little conference”.
I collated the ideas and offers of support in a third blog, Women Leaders: Making the leap, and asked whether people wanted to join in. Then it exploded. That blog has had more than 1,700 views and its sequel has had nearly 1,200. Why such a response? It suggests that women in education who are or who aspire to be leaders have a real need for our voices to be heard, to connect with each other, and for our aspirations to be achieved.
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