Preparing for the English Teacher CPD App launch

Well, it's finally here. After two years of prep work, all done around teaching full time, the app is ready to be taken for a spin. There will inevitably be glitches and screw ups. But there will also be people who have easier lives because of the time that's been invested. I cannot say, how satisfying that thought is. Up until this point, I haven't charged anything for anything really, and I haven't wanted to because I just literally want to help. But app software is not cheap and I can't fund another year by myself, so we have to go big. Well, bigger. 

I'm really hopeful it will still come across to people as an absolute bargain. And I hope it will connect people and improve the every day lived experience of English teaching for many. I know this is just so hideously cliche, but I think it will ring true for a lot of teachers. My driving desire is to help lift my pupils out of poverty, and help raise their self-efficacy. That's it, in a nut shell. I believe in 'community and all that nonsense', to my core. As I help you, so I will help them. 

I'll try to keep this blog more up to date now as the site is about to get a whole lot busier. Let's get out of the hundreds of users and into the thousands. I complain all the time about things I don't like about work, who doesn't. But may this never be said of me, that I complained and did nothing.

Here is my attempt to do something about it. I need whatever support you can give. Together, we're going to change the quality of provision in a lot of schools and subtly, gently, a lot of lives. It will probably be something I find really hard, but after years of thinking about it and two years of prep work. I'm ready. I'm going to do it anyway.

Let's go!

Ruth,x