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Rebecca McKinney

Rebecca McKinney

Our Lives, Our Stories with Carl Chinn vor 3 Monaten

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Carl Chinn sits down with Rebecca McKinney, an outstanding
headteacher and Catholic schools inspector whose story begins in
a big, fiercely close Irish family with roots in the centre of
Dublin and the countryside of Kildare. From her mom's childhood
in the Bordesley Green back-to-backs to early starts on her dad's
market stall, Rebecca grew up among strong women, hard graft and
parents who believed their daughters could be anything.

This is a conversation about belief and belonging. Rebecca
reflects on the teacher who spotted her at ten and later opened
the door to her career, on her late father's gentleness and the
faith that keeps him close, and on a way of leading a school
built on kindness rather than fear. She talks about greeting
every child by name at the gate, treating parents as people and
not problems, and the day her school refused to move one little
boy on and built a new classroom so he could stay.

It is a warm and quietly moving portrait of a proud Brummie-Irish
woman who turned everything she was given, by her mom and dad,
her aunties and the people who believed in her, into a life spent
believing in others.

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