EduKIT: ‘Teach Cancer a Lesson’ a campaign to improve educational support for children diagnosed with cancer.

Join our upcoming Education Keeping in Touch (EduKIT) meeting, an exclusive opportunity for members to engage with guest speakers, share insights, and explore best practices in the education sector.

Our next EduKIT session features a distinguished presenter, Dame Kathy August, who will introduce the ground-breaking campaign titled “Teach Cancer a Lesson.” This initiative aims to enhance educational support for children facing the challenges of cancer diagnosis.

Kathy has spent 45 years working in and for public education. She began her teaching career in Inner city Manchester and went on to have three secondary headships. The last headship was as the Principal in one of the first of a new type of schools introduced in the early 2000s. This was a city academy in Moss Side Manchester. Lord Andrew Adonis in his book ‘Education, Education, Education’ described its predecessor school as one of the most gang infested comprehensive schools in the country. Just over five years later it was judged to be outstanding. After this she worked as Deputy CEO in one of the largest MATs in the country. She has also been a Director of Education in two LEAs, worked as a senior adviser in the DFE, been a visiting professor at Salford Business School and is currently working as an interim CEO of a small MAT in the North of England.

She became a Dame in the 2014 New Years honours list. Her book ‘ Building an academy school in the Uk : With Principal” (Cambridge Scholastic’ pubs) was published in June.

Our members will automatically receive calendar invites to each EduKIT event. If you are not a member of the AoEA, get in touch with us at info@aoea.co.uk to find out more about EduKITs and becoming a member of the AoEA.

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