After a year in which the diversity of what we teacher and our school communities has come to the fore, guest host Adele Bates leads a reflective and practical discussion on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the school, especially within the curriculum, school culture and workforce.
Adele hosts an in-depth conversation with #DiverseEd’s Bennie Kara, author of A Little Guide for Teachers: Diversity in Schools; #DiverseEd and #WomenEd's Hannah Wilson, a former headteacher and leadership consultant; Elroy Cahill, headteacher at Kingsley Academy; and Adrian McLean, a trust leader for the Severn Academies Education Trust. For more on DiverseEd, see @DiverseEd2020 or www.diverseeducators.co.uk
They discuss how far we have come and what needs to happen next – both from a government viewpoint as well as on the ground in schools.
Topics include decolonising and diversifying the curriculum, issues relating to LGBT+, some whole-school approaches, workforce training and changing school cultures.
We ask what can schools do now to progress this agenda. We consider EDI within school policies, recruitment and school values/culture. Where should schools start with this work? How do we get past tokenism and box-ticking?
If this topic is of interest, we have published a second podcast focused on how we can create diversity and belonging in the classroom: https://bit.ly/3FGW7Z4
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