GLOWing

I attended the learning and teaching festival at the SECC the past couple of days. It was excellent. A completely worthwhile experience. I cannot praise it highly enough. My grey matter is still processing all the information to the extent that I didn’t sleep very well last night as my head was buzzing from all the stimulation. I will post more about it once I have had a chance to make sense of it all.

GLOW was showcased at the festival, and as a mentor I attended special events with all the other mentors in Scotland and learned a whole lot more about the project. I hadn’t realised that the project will be a first for Scotland. Its never been tried before anywhere in the world, and if the professionalism, dedication, and organisational abilities of all the GLOW staff and their partners at RM is anything to go by then it will be an amazing success. It truly will affect everyone who works in Scottish education and I am extremely happy to be given the chance to be associated with it.

During the course of the two days East Lothian Council was mentioned a few times. At a presentation given to all the, approximately 600, GLOW mentors the Wiki which has been set up for the collaboration of the East Lothian mentors was identified as one of the ways which local authorities are getting ready for GLOW’s implementation.

People that I met were also very complimentary about the contribution made by pupils from Musselburgh Grammar School who gave a short presentation to the delegates at the learning and teaching festival. They were a credit to both their school and East Lothian Council.