'Launch into Teaching' with Julia Padgett

Launch into Teaching is for new and early-career teachers who want to become the next generation of outstanding practitioners. This isn’t a podcast about planning lessons, setting up a classroom or writing school reports. It’s about understanding the bigger picture of how schools work and exploring what makes a great teacher and colleague.

Julia Padgett and Janine have a long history of connection from Julia’s previous leadership role at Braemar College and they have maintained the connection and relationship as Julia moved to Kilvington Grammar.

Julia writes ‘In this episode, Janine and I discuss how to navigate difficult conversations with colleagues and parents. We consider how you might prepare for these. We also chat about leadership and searching out role models and mentors’.

B.O.P. 'I Decided' with Ian Edwards

Ian Edwards is a professional business and executive coach, and founder of two companies, Planalife and Business on Purpose. He interviewed Janine as a guest on his ‘I Decided’ podcast in March 2024. The whole purpose of the “I Decided” series is to inspire people, young and old, that when they have a passion in their hearts they need to pick it up with two hands and to run with two feet. To give all you have, to all you do.  He states ‘ the beauty of knowing these people, many for decades, means I have been able to observe their life over a long period of time and watched them live their lives in a very authentic, significant way’.

Ian writes ‘Janine was a client of mine for 2 1/2 years just prior to and during the COVID Pandemic. Her tenacious passion for her clients and her industry kept her relevant and passionate during the COVID-19 Pandemic. When many others in her industry folded, Janine pivoted and kept supporting her clientele through an extremely difficult season in education, thrusting her even further forward as a respected pioneer in leadership development in education’.

'The Teaching Village' with Jenna Shepherd

The Teaching Village Podcast, hosted by Jenna Shepherd, is a platform for new teachers to learn tips and tricks from education experts, have conversations about everyday teaching, develop strategies that help us navigate our new environment, and learn more about those in our own teaching community.

Jenna writes ‘Janine and I chat about her career journey over the last 35 years. She has developed career and leadership programs for people at all stages of their career through her company Coaching Focus. We explore some practical tips and tricks that early career teachers can employ to build their capacity in the workplace, and the importance of having a mentor and coach as a guide through the oftentimes, confusing waters of the first few years of teaching’.

'The Animated Teacher' with Katrina Harte

Katrina Harte wrote this blog post after attending The Leading Edge: Women In Education Conference  in 2022.

 

She writes ‘This blog post is a little different from my others. Earlier this year I attended an online conference run by Janine Stratford called ‘The Leading Edge: Women in Education Conference’.

The conference was designed to provide personal insight and practical strategies specifically for women in education who are ready to take the next step in their career and progress into various leadership roles.

During the conference I learnt so much about my own leadership style and things I should watch out for and be aware of during my leadership roles. In this blog post I am going to share my key takeaways and some of the immense value I got out of the course’.