Our Pastoral Training

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Our Pastoral Training

Our Pastoral Training

Our Training Offer

We support tutors, heads of year, phase leaders and safeguarding leads in schools and trusts, in developing their confidence and competence in exploring belonging, identity and psychological safety.

We can deliver face to face and virtually, for pastoral meetings, twilights and conferences

We can create a safe space to help pastoral team members explore their own identities to become more aware of their own unconscious biases and how to navigate them.

Our training sessions include:
  • Developing an understanding of key DEI concepts and language
  • Reflecting on our own identities and lived experience
  • Exploring our individual and collective power, privilege and blind spots
  • Communicating our DEI commitment through our vision, mission and values
  • Developing inclusive leadership behaviours
  • Holding courageous conversations
Our clients include:
  • West Buckland School

An engaging session which allows you to consider what you could do to make the world a more welcoming place for all.

Angela McLean, Head of English, Holme Grange School

Diverse Educators are expert in both schools and DEI ensuring that their support is perfectly pitched for a busy school and complete range of staff. Hannah Wilson’s warmth and expertise allow her to explore complex and often challenging topics in a way that clicks with teachers who are juggling priorities and heavy workloads.

Stephanie Welsford, Assistant Headteacher, Villiers School


Our Coaching and Mentoring Training

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Our Coaching and Mentoring Training

Our Coaching and Mentoring Training

Our Training Offer

We support coaches and mentors in schools, trusts, teaching school hubs and teacher training providers in their training to be able to support diverse educators.

We can deliver face to face and virtually, for coaching and mentoring development days, meetings, and twilights.

We can create a safe space to help coaches and mentors explore their own identities to become more aware of their own unconscious biases and how to navigate them.

Our training sessions include:
  • Developing an understanding of key DEI concepts and language
  • Reflecting on our own identities and lived experience
  • Exploring our individual and collective power, privilege and blind spots
  • Communicating our DEI commitment through our vision, mission and values
  • Developing inclusive leadership behaviours
  • Holding courageous conversations
Our clients include:
  • Chiltern Teaching School Hub
  • CollectivEd
  • Inspiring Leaders Teaching Training
  • MentorEd
  • Sec Ed

Really well thought out and engaging INSET sessions – started a lot of courageous conversations about belonging and what we can do to move forward. Thank you DiverseEd!

Katie Dolman, Curriculum Leader, British School Muscat


Mental Health and Wellbeing Toolkit

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Mental Health and Wellbeing Toolkit

Mental Health and Wellbeing Toolkit

Toolkit collated by Clare Erasmus and Amy Sayer

What Is Mental Health?

Mental health is a term which refers to our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Our Mental Health affects how we think, feel, and act and is an indicator of how we handle stress, our relationships with people and sometimes even the choices we make.

What Is Wellbeing?

Wellbeing has been defined as the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy as well as our sense of purpose and how in control we feel.

Why Is this Toolkit Important for Diverse Educators?

It is now a well recognised fact that our Mental Health is as important as our physical health and that schools have a central role to play in enabling their pupils to be resilient and to support good mental health and wellbeing.

Teaching about Mental Health and Wellbeing is a core part of schools’ statutory curriculum delivery as well as protecting the wellbeing and mental health of staff. Both are now taken into account as part of Ofsted inspections.

In developing a whole school approach to mental wellbeing, we should seek to ask how inclusive and culturally sensitive are the school’s mental health processes and services in being appropriate and acceptable to all children and young people including from diverse families and from the LGBTQIA+ community.

The Diverse Educators’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Toolkit

We are collating a growing bank of resources to support you in reflecting on the following questions:

  • How do I develop a whole school approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing?
  • How do I support Staff Mental Health & Wellbeing?
  • How do I support Student Mental Health & Wellbeing?
  • How do I introduce Mental Health & Wellbeing into the Curriculum?
  • How do I practise Self care and life/work balance?
  • How do I ensure my school has an Inclusive approach to Mental Health & Wellbeing?

Articles

ACAMH

How to spot and support students who have experienced trauma.

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BBC

Children’s mental health week survey findings.

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Department for Education

Quick Read: Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision.

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Department for Education

Mental health resources for children, students, parents, carers and school/college staff.

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Education Support

Supervision for Leaders.

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Education Support

Teacher Burnout and how to avoid it.

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Education Support

Talking to Colleagues about their Mental Health & Wellbeing.

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Education Support

Teaching and the menopause: Your stories.

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Headteacher Update

Designated mental health leads: What should this new role look like?

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Sage Journals

Supervision in Schools.

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TES

How to support young children’s mental health.

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TES

Girls ‘face more mental health issues in secondary’.

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Blogs

Amy Sayer

The impact of the pandemic on the mental health of school staff.

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Chartered College of Teaching

Schools as congregations of Compassion: Rebuilding children’s mental wellbeing.

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Clare Erasmus

Involving parents and the wider school community.

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Clare Erasmus

#CultureofWellbeing DGinset.

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Hannah Wilson

Taking an intersectional approach to understanding mental health and self-identity.

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Laila El-Metoui

The need for a trauma-informed bias aware and compassionate curriculum.

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Mind

Diversity and difference – recognise that experiences of mental health problems vary across different groups and communities + 300 voices toolkit.

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Optimus Education

Supporting teacher mental health: strategies for senior leaders.

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Patrick Ottley O’Connor

Time for Men to ‘Woman Up’!

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#WellbeingDGmeet via Twitter 2017

Over 20 blogs to read.

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Worth It – Liz Robson-Kelly

Building Resilience in Young People.

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Young Minds

How to support your mental health if you are struggling.

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Books

Bethune, A (2018)

Wellbeing in the Primary Classroom: A practical guide to teaching happiness and positive mental health.

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Bethune, A & Kell, E (2020)

A Little Guide for Teachers: Teacher Wellbeing and Self-care (A Little Guide for Teachers).

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Brunzell, T. and Norrish, J. (2021)

Creating Trauma-Informed, Strengths-Based Classrooms: Teacher Strategies for Nurturing Students’ Healing, Growth, and Learning.

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Colquhoun, K. (2023)

A Practical Guide to Pupil Wellbeing: Strategies for classroom teachers.

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Cowley, A. (2021)

The Wellbeing Curriculum: Embedding children’s wellbeing in primary schools.

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Erasmus, C. (2019)

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Handbook for Schools: Transforming Mental Health Support on a Budget.

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Erasmus, C. (2021)

The Designated Mental Health Lead Planner: A guide and checklist for the school year.

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Fitzpatrick, C. (2015)

A Short Introduction to Helping Young People Manage Anxiety.

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Garnder, S. (2019)

Mental Health in Education Building Good Foundations

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Howard, C., Burton, M. and Levermore, D. (2019)

Children’s Mental Health and Emotional Well-being in Primary Schools.

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Hulme, J. (2016)

The School of Wellbeing: 12 Extraordinary Projects Promoting Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Happiness.

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Knightsmith, P. (2019)

The Mentally Healthy Schools Workbook: Practical Tips, Ideas and Whole-School Strategies for Making Meaningful Change.

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Lohmann, R.C. (2015)

Teen Anxiety: A CBT and ACT Activity Resource Book for Helping Anxious Adolescents.

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Luxmoore, N. (2014)

Essential Listening Skills for Busy School Staff: What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say.

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Morris, I. (2015)

Teaching Happiness and Well-Being in Schools, Second edition: Learning To Ride Elephants.

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Musby, E. (2014)

Anorexia and other Eating Disorders: how to help your child eat well and be well: Practical solutions, compassionate communication tools and emotional … support for parents of children and teenagers.

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North, J. (2013)

Mindful Therapeutic Care for Children: A Guide to Reflective Practice.

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Plummer, D. (2004)

Helping Adolescents and Adults to Build Self-Esteem: A Photocopiable Resource Book.

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Sayer, A. (2020)

Supporting Staff Mental Health in Your School.

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Sturt, P. and Rowe, J. (2023)

Using Supervision in Schools: A Guide to Building Safe Cultures and Providing Emotional Support in a Range of Education Settings.

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Evans, K. (Editor), Hoyle, T. (Editor), Roberts, F. (Editor), Yusuf, B. (Editor) (2021)

The Big Book of Whole school Wellbeing.

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Podcasts

ACAMH Podcasts

Children’s Mental Health.

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The EdTech Podcast

What matters in Edtech and Wellbeing.

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Frank and Stan

Supervision in Schools.

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Mentally Healthy Schools Anna Freud

Talking racism and mental health in schools podcast.

Talking racism and mental health in schools podcast.

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Optimus Education Wellbeing Podcast

Teacher mental health.

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Twinkl Leaders Team Podcast

Supporting Staff Mental Health – Amy Sayer.

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Resources

Creative Education

How to Become a Trauma Informed School.

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Department for Education

Education staff wellbeing charter is a declaration of support for, and set of commitments to, the wellbeing and mental health of everyone working in education.

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Department for Education

A whole school approach to mental health.

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Innovating Minds

Self-harm: the hidden behaviour that many don’t understand by Dr Asha Patel.

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Innovating Minds

Understanding childhood trauma, attachment, and the effect that it has on learning.

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Mentally Healthy Schools Anna Freud

A whole school approach to mental health.

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Mentally Healthy Schools Anna Freud

Section on mental health needs.

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Mentally Healthy Schools Anna Freud

Disability and Illness.

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Mentally Healthy Schools Anna Freud

LGBTQI+ mental health.

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Mentally Healthy Schools Anna Freud

How to start a conversation with children and young people about mental health.

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PSHE Association

Teaching about mental health and emotional wellbeing resources for KS1 – KS5 (Paid Membership required).

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Young Minds

Trauma informed schools.

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Videos

Anna Freud

Talking mental health.

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Innovating Minds

Supporting Children with Loss and Grief by Mike Armiger.

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Innovating Minds

The Designated Mental Health Lead planner – A Guide and Checklist for the school year.

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Innovating Minds

Using Therapeutic Strategies in Educational Settings by Mary Meredith.

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TES

How to embed wellbeing throughout your school (Subscription required).

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Worth-it Positive Education CIC

With guest Hannah Wilson. WHY Have Student Wellbeing AMBASSADORS in your school or college?

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Global Citizenship Toolkit

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Global Citizenship Toolkit

Global Citizenship Toolkit

Toolkit collated by Dr Harriet Marshall

What Does Global Citizenship Education Mean?

Global citizenship education (GCED) can be interpreted in slightly different ways, but in the UK, there are a variety of texts, policies, projects and resources to explore depending upon the angle you are interested in approaching GCED from.

For example, GCED and global learning have been used as umbrella terms for a large range of global learning specialisms from education for sustainable development and environmental education, to peace and human rights education, international and intercultural education. Key international frameworks guiding global learning include the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Agenda (17 goals for a more just and sustainable world signed by 193 UN member states) and the World Programme for Human Rights Education amongst others.

At a national level the policy has a long and complex past where we have had recommendations on embedding a global dimension and, most recently, recommendation for Sustainability and Climate change education.

Amongst all this, an oft quoted definition comes from Oxfam who have produced excellent guides around global citizenship education:
Education for global citizenship is a framework to equip learners for critical and active engagement with the challenges and opportunities of life in a fast-changing and interdependent world. It is transformative, developing the knowledge and understanding, skills, values and attitudes that learners need both to participate fully in a globalised society and economy, and to secure a more just, secure and sustainable world than the one they have inherited. (Oxfam, Education for Global Citizenship, p5)

And increasingly Sustainable Development Goal 4, target 7 (known as 4.7) is being referenced:
4.7: By 2030 ensure all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including among others through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.

Global citizenship education is regularly accompanied by pedagogical theories linked to transformative learning, postcolonialism, critical pedagogy, problem-based learning, futures thinking, values based learning, and participatory and experiential methodologies. Concepts such as power, control, sustainable development, cultural capital, equality and social justice are regularly at the heart of resources and projects.

Global Citizenship Education Resources, Recommendations and Further Reading

As education for and about social justice is a fundamental part of most quality global citizenship education resources or recommendations, it may not be surprising to learn that the charity and NGO sector are very active in supporting schools, teachers and young people with global citizenship and sustainable development education projects. From local Development Education Centres and organisation collaborations around SDG 4.7 such as Our Shared World, to national awards like UNICEF’s Right’s Respecting School Awards or the British Council’s International School Award, to organic international projects like #TeachSDGs and innovatory global citizenship teaching tools like Lyfta. With this in mind, below can only ever be a small sample of the resources out there and luckily a global dimension portal exists to help us discover more! There is also a growing body of research and theory around global learning practice both nationally (see the International Journal for Development Education and Global Learning) and there are a variety of postgraduate options for researching in this field further (e.g. see IOE’s Global Learning MA).

The Diverse Educators’ Global Citizenship Toolkit

We are collating a growing bank of resources to support you in reflecting on the following questions:

  • Question Sequence 1: What is the world like and how is it changing? What skills, knowledge and values do young people need to thrive in this world? Are we currently adequately supporting the development of these in schools?
  • Question Sequence 2: Is there a difference between sustainable development education and global citizenship education? If so, does it matter? Why? What global learning terminology do you think is most appropriate and why?
  • Question Sequence 3 (when reviewing GCED resources, programmes or activities): Whose global citizenship ideal is the most powerful here? Is this ‘critical’ global citizenship? How is global social justice understood?

How can we include more human and nature perspectives in our curriculum and why is it important to do so?

How can we measure the impact of global citizenship education activities?

How can we make global citizenship education embedded across whole school curriculum and practice?

What are the biggest obstacles to quality GCED?

Articles

International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 81.

Mina Chiba, Manca Sustarsic, Sara Perriton, D. Brent Edwards, (2021) Investigating effective teaching and learning for sustainable development and global citizenship: Implications from a systematic review of the literature.

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ResearchGate

Soft Versus Critical Global Citizenship Education.

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Science Open

Pedagogy of hope: global learning and the future of education.

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Taylor and Francis Online

Interfaces of critical global citizenship education in research about secondary schools in ‘global North’ contexts.

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UCL Press

International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning.

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Blogs

Education, democracy and global solidarity: learning to understand the other in an age of uncertainty — GENE

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Global Citizenship Education after the Covid-19 Crisis

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Global Education: What Education systems need in a time of Crises — GENE

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Schools Together

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Stride Global Citizenship Education (online) magazine

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UK National Association for Environmental Education Blog series

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Books

Akkari, A. and Maleq, K. (Eds) Global Citizenship Education, Critical and International Perspectives

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Bourn, D. (2022). Education for Social Change: Perspectives on Global Learning

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Davies, I et al (eds 2018). The Palgrave Handbook of Global Citizenship and Education

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GENE (2020). Global Education and Climate Change: Looking at Climate Education through the lens of global education Global Education and Climate Change

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Oliveira Andreotti & Menezes de Souza (eds 2014). Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education

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Wiksten, S (Ed) 2021. Centering Global Citizenship Education in the Public Sphere: International Enactments of GCED for Social Justice and Common Good (Critical Global Citizenship Education)

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Resources

80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World (Ireland)

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Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU)

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British Council’s Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning

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Development Education Centres

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Development Perspectives (Ireland)

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Eco Schools

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Global Action Plan

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Global Learning Wall Planner

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IDEAS

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Lyfta

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Our Shared World

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Signposts for Global Citizenship (Scotland)

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Sustainability and Environmental Education

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The Global Dimension

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The Sustainable Development Goals – A guide for teachers

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Tide Global Learning (Birmingham)

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UNESCO’s Global Citizenship Education

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UNICEF’S Rights Respecting Schools

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Videos

The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Let's save Africa! - Gone wrong

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The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals video by The World’s Largest Lesson

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UNESCO’s Global Citizenship Education (explanation)

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What Could Possibly Go Right? by Vanessa Andreotti

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Life Lessons

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Life Lessons

Life Lessons create open and empathetic whole school cultures.

We do this by supporting teachers to deliver evidence based relationships, sex and health education that fosters respectful peer to peer relations between pupils.

Our peer led, video based approach gives young people and teachers the tools to be able to have the most important conversations in the classroom. See here for a sample video.

Our impact so far:

  • 85% of pupils like using the format of Life Lessons
  • 80% of teachers felt it helped open up discussion and debate within the classroom
  • 95% of schools would recommend Life Lessons to another school

In 2024 we partnered with NSPCC to develop and deliver a Whole-School Approach to Framework to Relationships and Sex Education. In 2024 we were also awarded funding from Oak to develop RSHE resources.

We won the Fair Education Alliance Innovation in Education award in 2021 and the Fair Education Alliance Innovation Scaling Award 2023-2024.

Partners with NSPCC to curate a Whole-School Approach Framework to Sex and Relationships Education.

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Diverse History UK

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Diverse History UK

Diverse History UK provide educational consultancy and resource production services to address diversification of school curricula. We strive to ensure that history departments are truly diverse and amplify marginalised histories. The belief that the education sector can do so much to challenge prejudices and misconceptions through teaching marginalised histories, inspired us to set up Diverse History UK. We are driven by the knowledge that a diverse education for all children can help to challenge damaging prejudices and stereotypes, benefiting our pupils and our whole society both academically and pastorally.

We feel strongly that as educators we have a responsibility to ensure Britain’s diverse society is reflected in our curricula. We are passionate about the implementation of curricula that amplify marginalised histories in order to promote a happier and more harmonious society. As well as focusing on diverse content, we are also passionate about teaching students to engage with historiography in order to hone their academic skills from KS2 onwards.

We know from experience that it is possible to include a truly diverse curriculum which explores lesser-told narratives from around the globe, all within the constraints of the National Curriculum. Diverse History UK wants to help schools to move away from single story narratives and towards teaching more inclusive and honest global histories.

We are a female and LGBTQ+ owned business. All of our team are DBS checked.

We specialise in the research of marginalised histories,. In particular on LGBTQ+ history, 19th Century asylums and African colonialism.

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Focused Minds Education Group

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Focused Minds Education Group

Focused Minds Education Group offers asset-based, trauma-informed, equity focused practices, resources, services and products worldwide. Our primary focus is to facilitate impactful and engaging personal and professional learning opportunities that promote growth, resiliency and wellness in adolescents and adults. Our interactive and reflective workshops and resources focus on how to use literacy to build skills and heal.

Is Your School An A.S.S.E.T.? is an educational resource for secondary educators. To further the knowledge base and increase understanding of trauma-informed practices and multi-tiered intervention frameworks at the secondary level (6-12), Focused Minds Education Group created A.S.S.E.T. professional learning system and workbook. The primary focus is to provide educators with ready-to-use strategies and a targeted approach to equity, excellence, and cultural responsiveness.

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Association for Science Education

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Association for Science Education

The Association for Science Education (ASE) is an active membership body that has been supporting all those involved in science education from pre-school to higher education for over 100 years; members include teachers, technicians, tutors and advisers. We are a Registered Charity with a Royal Charter, owned by our members and independent of government. We seek to create a powerful voice for science education professionals in order to make a positive and influential difference to the teaching and learning of science throughout the UK and further afield.

We are leading a national project called Inclusion in Schools because we recognise the importance of improving the education experience for all young people regardless of circumstance. This is a whole school project that goes beyond the science classroom. It aims to support state-funded secondary schools in England to address barriers to inclusion that can affect the subject choices students make. The pandemic has undone a lot of good work when it comes to inclusion and closing the gap, so this work is particularly important at this time and together we can make real change happen.

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Kids of Colour

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Kids of Colour

Kids of Colour is a project for young people of colour to explore ‘race’, identity and culture, founded in Manchester by Roxy Legane in 2018. Kids of Colour create spaces to challenge the racism that affects young people and their communities; building collective resistance and solidarity.

Our work with young people of colour involves running regular youth spaces where young people meet others, discuss and explore experiences, learn about their own and local histories – and have fun! We elevate young people’s experiences via our online platforms and at our community events and offer opportunities throughout the year for young people to celebrate and learn about their identities, cultures and histories – this happens through our free books scheme ‘The Bookshelf’, our Summer School and ad-hoc local trips/ events.

We work to inform society on the diverse experiences belonging to young people of colour and challenge the racialized, dehumanising narratives that uphold negative stereotypes. In our work we advocate for young people and actively challenge racism experienced by young people and families, mostly focussed on areas of education and policing. We create opportunities for the public to learn from young people, encouraging young and adult allies to reflect on the individual and systemic changes needed in society that they must be a part of implementing. This happens through our Introductory Anti-Racist Practise workshops with youth workers and educators, public community events and lead discussion based workshops with mixed groups of young people across Greater Manchester.

We co-lead a community campaign with the Northern Police Monitoring Project called No Police In Schools. In 2020 we launched our report Decriminalise the Classroom: A Community Response to Police in Greater Manchester’s Schools. The report includes research conducted across Greater Manchester, collating experiences from young people, youth workers, educators, teachers and wider members of the community.

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The Anne Frank Trust

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The Anne Frank Trust

The Anne Frank Trust is an education charity that empowers 10-15 year olds to challenge all forms of prejudice, inspired by the life and work of Anne Frank. Our work uniquely combines Holocaust education, peer education and youth empowerment to create lasting positive changes in young people’s behaviours and attitudes towards others. Anne Frank’s life and diary are uniquely powerful as a catalyst for this learning and reflection about prejudice and are at the heart of everything we do. Our vision is a society free from prejudice and we believe young people are the key to achieving this.

Based on our peer education model we have two core in school programmes- History for Today where a group of students are trained to become peer guides with a physical exhibition and our Voices for Equality programme where a group of young people are supported to become voices for equality in their school community. As part of both programmes we also run full class workshops based on different themes including Anti- Semitism, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Gender Expectations, Transphobia and Ableism.

Our Head Office is based in London with delivery staff currently based in London, West Midlands, Yorkshire, North East England, North West England and Scotland.

At the Anne Frank Trust we have an excellent track record of independent evaluation of or programmes. Our long standing partnership working with social psychologists at the University of Kent and our latest impact report ‘Just Being Human’ provide powerful and continuing evidence of the impact of our education programmes on young people’s attitudes, knowledge, empathy and confidence to challenge prejudice. In the year 2020-21 92.5% of the young people we worked with showed progress in their attitudes towards at least one social group different to themselves. We also found that 70.7% of young people worked with made significant progress in their knowledge of prejudice and the harm it can cause.

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