Thursday 27th February, 10.30am
Blue Seminar Room (sponsored by FE Week)
“Child centered leadership at a time of increasing challenge”
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Perhaps most famous for his role on Channel 4’s BAFTA-winning TV show Educating Essex, Vic has worked his way up through the system from a PE teacher to a high profile, controversial, innovative and passionate head, currently the principal of Passmores Academy.
He not only brings drive, creativity and innovation to the role, putting the children he clearly cares for centre stage at every opportunity, he also brings the human touch to what he unashamedly describes as ‘his other family’. In his own words, ‘If you saw the programme, you’ll recognise me, I’m the one crying’.
His passion for education is matched by his genuine zeal for educational leadership. ‘It’s the best job in the world’, he says, which is also the name of his recently published book.
Since the airing of Educating Essex in the Autumn of 2011, Vic has spoken at head teacher conferences including the National College and the ASCL, as well as talking to audiences of new teachers, encouraging them not only to embrace teaching as a profession but also have the ambition and drive to aim for headship.
Vic will be signing copies of his new book The Best Job In The World, (which is due to published by Crown House Publishing in January 2014), on the Crown House stand H14.
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