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BSA Certificate in Professional Practice – Inclusion Lead Training

Name: BSA Certificate in Professional Practice – Inclusion Lead Training
Start: 2022-11-15T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2022-11-15T23:59:59+00:00
Location: Virtual – Zoom

Tuesday 15 November

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 and Thursday, December 8, 2022

Study Days for the Autumn Course are:

November 15, 2022
December 8, 2022

Timings: 10:00 – 16:15

Why should you attend?

This bespoke, comprehensive two-day certificate course has been put together to support Inclusion Leads or staff with specific responsibility for equity, diversity and inclusion in boarding schools.

Participants will receive high-quality training and support from a range of experts to further develop the skills and confidence needed to establish, embed and sustain equity, diversity and inclusion work in their school. Throughout the two days there will be opportunities to meet, collaborate and discuss with other participants and to learn from case studies and good practice from other schools.

Content:

The course will bring together leaders from a wide range of backgrounds who will share knowledge and experiences to both support you with this important work and to challenge your thinking to enable professional growth.

Over the two days we will explore the ‘why’ of this work including areas such as identity, belonging, use of language, empowerment and intersectionality. Legal and inspection requirements will be unpacked, and auditing and action planning discussed. The importance and power of courageous and compassionate leadership in creating sustained change will be fully explored and through interactive sessions which will include an exploration of coaching as a tool, you will develop practical techniques to help support the important conversations needed for your work in this area.

COURSE OVERVIEW

Study Day 1

Chair: Ammy Davies-Potter, Director of Guardianship and Inclusion and BSA Foundation

Ammy is Director of Guardianship and Inclusion and a member of the BSA Foundation Trust. She joined the Group in 2020 following a career in education and was latterly a Deputy Head of an all-girls boarding school. Ammy is a member of the ISC inclusion group and has recently completed a Masters in Inclusive Education.

Irfan Latif, BSA Group Inclusion Representative, Principal, DLD College London

Irfan is currently the Principal of DLD College London, part of the Alpha Plus Group of schools which was recently named ‘Boarding of the School of the Year 2020’. He was educated at Emanuel School and graduated with honours in Chemistry from King’s College, London. His first headship took him to Somerset where he was Headmaster of Sexey’s School (BSA) in Bruton. Prior to this he was Deputy Head at Bedford School (HMC), Director of Science at St Benedict’s School in Ealing (HMC), Senior Housemaster at Whitgift School (HMC) and Assistant Housemaster and Teacher of Chemistry at The Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Boys (HMC). He has been the Chairman of the State Boarding Schools’ Forum, the Vice Chair of the Boarding Schools’ Association and is currently it’s London Chair. He also sits on the Executive Committee of the BSA as the Inclusion and Diversity representative for the sector and is the co-founder of the ISC’s Inclusion and Diversity Group. He regularly lectures at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and is also a Justice of the Peace. As well as being a school Governor, he is also the trustee of various charities and used to sit on the Board of Education at the Diocese of Bath & Wells. He is a keen cook, traveller and adventurer and recently led expeditions to Everest Base Camp, Venezuela and the Red Sea. Irfan enjoys family time with his wife Jocelyn, also a science teacher, their two young daughters and their Jack Russell, Rodney.

The Why, What, and How of Leading Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity in your school

Some key foundational considerations under the why, what and how of your role which will help to position you as an effective and impactful Inclusion lead. This session will cover various themes such as:

the importance of now
establishing definitions
the biggest misconceptions
connecting the dots of your strategy, from audit to action plan

Speaker: Temi Akindele Barker, Founder, Inclusion Labs

Temi began her career as a consultant in Legal Executive Search, both in the UK and internationally, eventually becoming Co-Head of the Senior Team covering US and UK law firms, and US financial institutions. A key part of her role involved supporting local and multinational clients to achieve their strategic goals. Prior to Inclusion Labs, she worked in Strategy and Research with a focus on start-ups. Temi is a mum of two daughters and committed to helping schools ask the right questions and focus on the important things when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion. Inclusion Labs offers a custom programme for schools, grounded in research and best practice, but most importantly on the lived experience of students and families, particularly those from underrepresented groups.

Understanding Equality and the Law

This session will cover the various elements of equality included within English legislation and the obligations they place on organisations. It will also consider whether the protections are adequate and whether they allow Schools to genuinely demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusivity.

Speaker: Gemma Woodhouse, Partner, Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Gemma is an employment partner at Penningtons Manches Cooper. She advises organisations on all elements of employment law including discrimination and equal opportunities. She also works with a number of independent schools and is joint Head of the Penningtons Manches Cooper Schools Sector.

Leadership Challenges and Opportunities

How can you lead as effectively as possible, building capacity and confidence so that others move forward and achieve all they can? This session will explore the challenges that leadership presents, alongside the opportunities it can offer, and how you can make the most of them.

Speaker: Jill Berry, Leadership Development Consultant, J Berry Associates Ltd

Jill taught for thirty years across six different schools in the UK and was a head for the last ten. Since leaving headship she has completed a doctorate, researching the transition to headship; written a book: ‘Making the Leap – Moving from Deputy to Head’ (Crown House, 2016); and carried out a range of leadership consultancy work. She is an advocate for the opportunities presented by social media for networking and professional development, tweeting @jill berry102 and blogging at jillberry102.blog

Case studies, Discussion and Next Steps

This session will provide an opportunity to hear first-hand from school leaders about EDI work in their schools. The case studies will cover a range of different areas from the importance of pupil voice to recruitment. Participants will then have the chance to meet and discuss EDI work in their schools with other Inclusion Lead colleagues (in small zoom break out groups). To end the day, we will briefly consider next steps and things to be researching or thinking about before the second day of this course.

Speaker: Viv Grant, Director of Integrity Coaching

Viv Grant is an Executive Coach, Author and Public Speaker. She is the Director of Integrity Coaching, London’s leading provider of coaching services for Headteachers and senior school leaders. Viv has been in the teaching profession for over thirty years. When she was just 31 and expecting her first child, she was appointed as one of the youngest Heads in the country to turn around a failing primary school. Her experiences as a young Black Head led her to work on several Race Equity and Diversity initiatives in the public sector, from the early 2000s to the present. She has played a lead role in developing EDI programmes, with a particular focus on race, for The Institute of Education, The DfE, The NHS, The Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman, The NUT and a large number of LA’s.

Viv also has a deep interest in approaches for supporting the emotional and psychological well-being of school leaders. She is often called upon nationally and internationally to speak at conferences on the subject. As an Executive coach, Viv works extensively with Headteachers and school leaders, helping them to overcome the challenges of their roles so that they can maintain their humanity, joy amd love for the profession and the communities they serve.

Her book “Staying A Head” is considered a seminal work in this area. Recognised as an expert in the field, she has contributed to various books and periodicals on the subject. As an expert commentator, her contributions have also been featured in The Guardian, London Live, Sky News, Radio Four, Woman’s Hour and the World at One. Viv has also been an Advisory Board member of the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools at The Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University and is currently a PhD student researching the relationship between Anti-Racism, School Leadership and Wholeness.

Speaker: Rick Clarke, Head, Frensham Heights

Teaching and working with people is in Rick’s blood. Raised and educated in Johannesburg, South Africa, with an English teacher father and an educational psychologist mother, Rick was destined to follow them into education. A double major in English and Psychology, English Honours and a PGCE led Rick to pursue his career in the UK, a dream of his since he spent a year living in the UK as a 10-year old.

Rick has worked in a wide range of schools in both South Africa and England. His passion for English drove him to lead English departments at Brighton College and St John’s College in Johannesburg. Prior to becoming senior Deputy Head at Warminster School in Wiltshire, Rick was a boarding Housemaster at Wellington College in Berkshire. In his role at Warminster School, Rick was responsible for much of the life of the school, from pastoral care and boarding to marketing and promoting the school. As Head of Frensham, Rick has seen the school through the challenges of the pandemic and most recently through a hugely successful ISI inspection in which the school achieved excellent for academic and personal development.

In his spare time, Rick is a keen runner who is pursuing his goal of completing his first half-marathon. In addition to this, Rick loves spending time with his family, reading widely, listening to a wide range of music and occasionally binge watching a quality TV drama.

Speaker: Matthew Robinson, Head of Boarding, West Buckland School

Matthew has an eclectic experience with the common threads of authentic leadership, delivering high performance and excellence in supporting others on their personal journey. Positive and proactive behaviours underpinned by core principles and values have been the cornerstones of success.

Study Day 2

Chair: Ammy Davies-Potter, Director of Guardianship and Inclusion and BSA Foundation

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Safeguarding and Inspection

This session will look at safeguarding with an equity, diversity and inclusion lens and will consider key inspection requirements.

Speaker: Dale Wilkins, Senior Director, BSA and BSA Group

Dale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme, including both day seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter and has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members.

For 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board and has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding since 2002. Dale had previously been a BSA course tutor since 1998 and developed the BSA Self-Assessment Toolkit, which was updated in 2022.

Supportive Conversations

This session will explore the need for a Coaching Mindset when having supportive and robust conversations about sensitive and important topics. We will explore what coaching is and is not, as well as learn skills you can immediately use with students and staff.

Speaker: McKenzie Cerri, Co-founder of Graydin

McKenzie has over 15 years of experience in coaching and teacher-training within education. She is one of the co-founders of Graydin, an organisation working to revolutionise the ways we support, empower and connect within the school environment. Together with more than 150 schools and universities worldwide, Graydin has been at the forefront of the coaching movement in education since 2011. Prior to Graydin, she was a youth coach and worked closely with the Maudsley Hospital eating disorder unit to develop content for suffers and carers. Born in California, now based in London, UK, she took her first personal development course at age nine.

Identity, Belonging and Connectedness

This session will explore the notions of identity, belonging and connectedness. Coco will share her own stories of identity and belonging as well as her experiences of working with young people in schools. How do our different and often intersecting identities shape our capacity to belong and connect and how can schools provide an environment where connectedness thrives?

Speaker: Coco Stevenson, Director of Inclusion at St Paul’s Girls’ School and Educational Consultant

Coco is Director of Inclusion at St Paul’s Girls’ School. She has been a senior leader in a number of schools for many years, including South Hampstead High School and most recently Deputy Head Pastoral at City of London School. Coco now practises as an Educational Consultant and speaks, advises and consults widely on both Safeguarding and on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within the educational sector. She is a school governor and a passionate advocate for inclusive education.

Case Studies, Discussion and Closing Remarks

This session will be similar to the one at the end of day 1 in that it will provide an opportunity to hear first-hand from school leaders about EDI work in their schools. The case studies will cover a range of different areas to complement those discussed on day 1. Participants will then have the chance to meet and discuss EDI work in their schools with other Inclusion Lead colleagues (in small zoom break out groups). The day will close with an opportunity to reflect on the how, the why and the what of the Inclusion lead role and moving forward in an effective and impactful way.

Speaker: Louise Fahay, Diversity and Inclusion co-ordinator and Head of 4th year, Caterham School

Diversity and inclusion has been central to my teaching career – I’ve been teaching for over 25 years in a range of schools. I have also worked as Croydon’s Young Carers support teacher and established a mental health service for young refugees and asylum seekers.

Speaker: Mathias Mora, French and Spanish Teacher, EDI Lead

Mathias Mora is a MFL teacher and EDI Lead at Worksop College, a co-educational day and boarding school in Nottinghamshire. Mathias moved to the UK seven years ago after completing a bachelor’s degree in English Studies from Paris XII University. He started his journey in education as a language assistant, before fully qualifying as Teacher of MFL. For five years, Mathias also assumed the position of resident Assistant Housemaster of a year 7 & 8 boarding house. More recently, Mathias has dived into the exciting world of EDI and has been in charge of co-ordinating a whole school-approach to questions around Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

Speaker: Coco Stevenson, Director of Inclusion at St Paul’s Girls’ School and Educational Consultant

Speaker: Irfan Latif, Principal, DLD College London

To book for the 2-day Inclusion Lead certificated course on:

Tuesday, November 15 2022
Thursday December 8 2022

Timings: 10:00 – 16:15

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Find out about additional professional practice days for EDI Leads, who have completed the 2-day Inclusion Lead Training, below:

CERTIFICATED PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE DAYS FOR EDI LEADS:

‘There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in’ Desmond Tutu

Date: Wednesday March 8, 2023 and Thursday June 15, 2023

Time: 10:30-15:30

Venue: Zoom (online) meeting format

Audience: EDI leads who have attended the Inclusion Lead Professional Practice 2-day certificated course

Course outline:

This one-day certificated professional practice course has been developed in response to feedback from school EDI leads who have completed the initial 2-day certificated training. It is open to all those who have attended this initial training.

During the day you will:

hear from speakers with expertise and/or lived experience to inspire and challenge our thinking and to support us in our current work and with a focus on ‘looking upstream’
have the opportunity to hear about examples of recent and ongoing work through case studies from colleagues who will share their work and journeys regarding a particular aspect of their EDI work in school
and have time to share good practice and discuss this work in a supportive environment with others in similar roles

Day Overview:

Session 1: Introduction; school case studies, discussion and sharing good practice with colleagues
Session 2: Speaker led session on one or more areas of EDI work
Session 3: On the couch: in this interactive session, panel members will talk about their EDI work
Session 4: School case studies, discussion and sharing good practice with colleagues; next steps

Each professional practice day will be unique – planned in response to the thoughts and feedback from EDI Leads.

Our accredited training programme is kindly sponsored by Witley Jones.

The BSA’s programme of professional development and training is the most comprehensive CPD package offered to staff in boarding schools. It includes a series of professional practice Certificate courses specifically designed to meet the practical needs of boarding staff and provide an internationally-recognised qualification in boarding education.