#DiverseEd Sheffield Hub

Course Overview

This session will include:

• Understanding what psychological safety is.
• Reflecting on the perception gap between different identity groups about how psychologically safe different spaces in your school may be.
• Considering the conditions for psychological safety for children in the classroom and adults in the meeting room.

Speaker

Hannah Wilson

Hannah Wilson is a Leadership Development consultant, coach and trainer. She is a former Executive Headteacher and Chair of a MAT board of trustees. Hannah is the Founder and Director of The Belonging Effect. She is the Co-Editor of Diverse Educators: A Manifesto and the author of Cultivating Belonging in Schools.

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Course Overview

This session will include:

• Sharing the lived educational experience of those racialised as Black and Brown.
• Becoming conscious of the additional barriers people racialised as such may face in schools.
• Becoming conscious of the difference between being non-racist and anti-racist.
• Building confidence in understanding the need for an anti-racist learning environment, curriculum and educators.
• Building confidence and competence in knowing how to handle racist incidents at school.

Speaker

Krystian McInnis

Krystian McInnis is an education consultant, advisor, and researcher with expertise in curriculum diversification, decolonisation, and equity in Religious Education. He has worked across the public, private, and charitable sectors, with experience in the UK, Denmark, and New Zealand. As Co-Founder of Reimagining Education, he is committed to helping schools develop more inclusive, representative curricula where all students feel seen and heard.

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Course Overview

This session will include:

• Reviewing your current approach to SEND as a parallel strategy to your DEIB approach
• Considering what an intersectional lens on SEND looks like for all stakeholders
• Ensuring that your staff are conscious, confident and competent in their approaches to SEND
• Identifying the multi-layered barriers that some learners and their families are navigating in having their needs met
• Navigating societal and systemic barriers impacting the SEND system
• Considering culturally specific barriers to SEND identification and diagnosis including the role of cultural and religious frameworks in understanding disability and need
• Identifying family and community trust deficits to work better with those who have historical or lived reasons to distrust institutions
• Addressing practitioner bias and unconscious assumptions of staff bringing unintended bias into their SEND practice

Speaker

Domini Choudhury

Domini Choudhury is an associate Belonging Effect trainer, an award-winning EDI consultant, a former Deputy and Acting Headteacher for 17 years, a local authority consultant and an Evidence Advocate for the Research Schools Network, part of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF).

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Course Overview

This session will include:

• Reflecting on the journey of an ally
• Unpacking and navigating our privilege
• Exploring our willingness to be vulnerable
• Sharing how we can learn from making mistakes
• Considering how we create and hold safe spaces
• Navigating our strong emotions
• Challenging language, behaviours and practices that are not inclusive

Speaker

Hannah Wilson

Hannah Wilson is a Leadership Development consultant, coach and trainer. She is a former Executive Headteacher and Chair of a MAT board of trustees. Hannah is the Founder and Director of The Belonging Effect. She is the Co-Editor of Diverse Educators: A Manifesto and the author of Cultivating Belonging in Schools.

Check out the supporting toolkit.

Course Overview

This session will include:

• Understanding what it means to be included and to belong in a workplace
• Ensuring that we are being intentionally inclusive in everything we do within our workplaces
• Raising awareness of the societal, structural and systemic barriers impacting different individuals and groups
• Challenging language, behaviours and practices that are not inclusive
• Reviewing how we show up how we interact and we hold space for each other

Speaker

Bennie Kara

Bennie Kara is a former deputy headteacher in the East Midlands, specialising in curriculum, teaching and learning. Bennie now speaks, writes and trains on diversity in the curriculum. Alongside supporting schools to diversify their curriculum, she is the author of 'A Little Guide for Teachers: Diversity in Schools' (Sage Education).

Check out the supporting toolkit.