BSA Certificate in Professional Practice – Inclusion Lead Training

• Study Day 1, Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
• Study Day 2, Thursday, March 3rd, 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.

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

Inclusivity in your school

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.

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.

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.

Ammy Davies-Potter, Director of Guardianship and Inclusion, BSA Group

Ammy qualified as a teacher in 1991 and then spent her career in boarding school roles. Prior to that, she was educated at Downend School, Bristol. Gaining a First-Class degree in Human Biology and Geology from Hertfordshire University, she then went on to study for a PGCE at the University of Oxford. She holds an MEd from the University of Bristol and is just completing her MA in Inclusive Education at Bath Spa University. She initially taught at Bromsgrove School and then at St John’s College School Cambridge, before moving in 1995 to become a Housemistress at Westonbirt School. In 2010 she joined St Mary’s Calne, initially as a Housemistress and subsequently joining the SLT as Senior Mistress and DSL and finally as Deputy Head (Pastoral). Prior to moving on to post-graduate study, she spent a year working for the NHS in the field of genetics. She completed her NPQH in 2000 as well as her AMBDA and APC in 2019. When she isn’t working, Ammy can be found spending time with her family, exploring parts of the UK and abroad or walking the Pembrokeshire coastal path with her dog Odin.

Clinton Wokocha Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador, Kings Hospital School, Dublin Ireland.

Clinton Wokocha is the Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador at the Kings Hospital School Dublin Ireland. Clinton has been working with the Kings Hospital for just over a year now. As D&I ambassador, he has written extensive policies such as the KH anti-racism and LGBTQ policy. Furthermore, Clinton acts as chairman of the KH Diversity and Inclusion committee.

Shaun Dellenty, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, Leighton Park; Speaker, Trainer and Writer

Shaun Dellenty NPQH, FCCT, FRSA is a London based educator, ex school leader, trainer, speaker, blogger and award-winning advocate for compassionate and intersectional LGBT+ inclusion. Currently working part time as Diversity and Inclusion lead at Leighton Park in Reading (in addition to his own global consultancy) Shaun was named one of the UK’s 100 most influential LGBT+ people and designated a ‘Point of Light’ by the UK Prime Minister in 2016 for services to education and LGBT+ communities.

In 2020 he made the Guardian ‘Global Diversity List’ as one of the ‘top 20 diversity figures in public life. His book ‘Celebrating Difference- A Whole School Approach to LGBT+ Inclusion’ was published by Bloomsbury Education in 2019 and being subsequently recommend in Parliament. Shaun has written widely, including TES, Independent Schools Magazine, Guardian, Teach Primary and many more. He is a member of the NAHT LGBT+ network and chaired the NAHT Equalities conference 2021.

His work has also featured BBC, Channel Four, Radio 4 and many more. More at www.shaundellenty.com and Twitter @ShaunDellenty

Adam Hartley DDSL leading on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Milton Abbey School

Adam Hartley, DDSL leading on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Milton School. I’m also a Sixth Form Assistant Housemaster, Head of Humanities and Chaplaincy Co-ordinator.

Adam has been teaching Humanities at Milton Abbey School since 2020. Prior to this Adam was DDSL and Second in Department for Religious Studies at St. Mary’s School Shaftesbury, and a Teacher of Humanities and Holocaust and Genocide Education Co-ordinator at Wydean School and Sixth Form Centre. Being across a number of different roles within the school allows Adam to approach EDI from a whole school perspective with a view into the classroom, extra-curricular and faith life of the school community.

Study Day 2

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.

Dale Wilkins, Director of Safeguarding, Professional Development and Accreditation, 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, the annual Safeguarding Conference, the Safeguarding Forum. He has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our overseas 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.

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.

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?

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, Discussions and Closing Remarks

Irfan Latif, 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.

Anya Diaz-Cebreiro, Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Tudor Hall School

Anya is the Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Tudor Hall School, based in Oxfordshire. As the first Head of EDI, Anya has led on whole school strategic planning of EDI matters which has made room for whole school change. With extensive experience in boarding as both Deputy Housemistress and Housemistress, Anya has a keen interest in pastoral care and its relationship to EDI. Anya has written about supporting disabled children and effective pastoral care in the book ‘Diverse Educators: A Manifesto’ and has spoken on the subject in Diversifying the Curriculum conference.

Jenny Cardenas, Spanish and French teacher, Monmouth School for Boys

I am an MFL teacher, from Colombia teaching mainly Spanish and some French.  I have been working in Monmouth School for Boys for 4 years, before this I worked in a Catholic comprehensive school in Pontypool.  I have been working in an informal role within the school boosting inclusion and organising events and groups around race and diversity.

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