DEIB and ITTE

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DEIB and ITTE

DEIB and ITTE

Diverse Educators are working in collaboration with national organisations responsible for Initial Teacher Training and Education (ITTE) to amplify the conversations around diverse representation in recruiting and retaining diverse Early Career Teachers.

We are delighted to be working with training providers across the country to support the trainee teachers and their trainers/ mentors.

Our very popular training session for whole cohorts is here:

Our ITTE Training

We have a supporting DEI Toolkit here:

Our ITTE Providers' Toolkit

We also host an annual virtual DEI for ITTs conference in January. (Get in touch if you are a smaller SCITT and need a discount to be able to access the event).

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Each organisation is aligned with our #DiverseEd vision, mission and values to ensure that we have diverse representation at every level of the school system, including in the organisations responsible for training and mentoring our next generation of teachers through ITTE and ECF provision.

Our 2024-25 meetings schedule:

  • Wednesday 20th November 2024 12.00-1.00pm
  • Wednesday 26th March 2025 12.00-1.00pm
  • Wednesday 11th June 2025 12.00-1.00pm

If you would like to get involved in our Diversity in ITTE activities and join us at our termly meetings, get in touch or you can book here:

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We are delighted to be attending the UCET 2024 conference in Leeds where we will chair a panel of partners to share their best practice and learn from their challenges in their DEI work.

We also collaborated with NASBTT on a podcast series: Hannah Wilson (Diverse Educators) and James Coleman (NASBTT) are the co-hosts of the DEI in ITTE Podcast.

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If you would like to get involved in our Diversity in ITTE activities which will include a research project, a series of articles and a webcast series, or if you would like to join us at our half-termly meetings, get in touch.

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The training sessions Hannah delivers are brilliant, they are engaging, interesting and full of lots of practical strategies that can be adopted. Hannah delivers thought-provoking content and provides a valuable opportunity for our members to engage, share experience and expertise over a key subject.

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Our Book

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Diverse Educators:
A Manifesto

Diverse Educators:
A Manifesto

Our book is published by Legend Times / The University of Buckingham Press. We are excited to have worked with 11 chapter editors and 114 contributors on this writing project.

The Diverse Educators’ book is structured, like our website, around the Equality Act. There are ten chapters, one for each of the nine Protected Characteristics (Age; Disability; Gender Reassignment; Pregnancy and Maternity; Marriage and Civil Partnership; Race; Religion and Belief; Sex; Sexual Orientation) with a tenth chapter exploring intersectionality.

Each chapter has a chapter editor (s) who has worked with ten contributors offering a multiplicity of perspectives on the protected characteristic being explored in the chapter. Each contributor has interwoven their personal and professional narrative, framed in theory, to respond to current and historic debates. The chapter editor has written an introduction to the chapter to give context and to frame the chapter’s narratives, arguments and provocations.

We are committed to capturing the collective voice of our community and to showcasing the diverse lived experiences of educators. We are keen for Diverse Educators: A Manifesto to be both academic and accessible. We intend for the book to be solutions-focused with high-quality input on practice, pedagogy, people management and policy.

We are delighted by the endorsements that our early reviewers of our book, Diverse Educators: A Manifesto, have shared with us.

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Diversity Roundtables

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Diversity Roundtables

At the end of July 2020, a Diversity Roundtable series was initiated to create a space for a joined-up conversation about how we can collaborate better across the education system on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion agenda in schools.

Our 2023-24 meetings schedule is:

  • Tuesday 7th November 2023 - 8.30-10.00am
  • Tuesday 23rd January 2024 - 8.30-10.00am
  • Tuesday 16th April 2024 - 8.30-10.00am
  • Tuesday 9th July 2024 - 8.30-10.00am

Please get in touch if you would like to contribute:

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We are supporting and amplifying the Edurio EDI Survey which aims to be the largest data collection of its kind across the school system.

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If you/your organisation has a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in the education system and you have a representative who would like to join us at our termly Diversity Roundtable meetings, get in touch.

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If Not Me

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If Not Me

Ifnotme -inclusion is a coaching and training company celebrating and promoting inclusion in all areas of life.

The company is run by me, Steve Morley. I am an Inclusion teacher, Activity Alliance Tutor, Author, Educator, Public Speaker, and Mental Health Advocate. I have worked in business management, local government, and sports development. I have also worked as a sports coach coaching from beginner to elite level.

Since retiring from my “proper job” in 2015, I spend my time helping others change the world, one thought at a time. I do this through education and the delivery of courses and workshops.

The experience I gained in business and local government, particularly my work with ethnic communities, the homeless, people with disabilities, and people with mental health conditions give me a certain perspective when delivering courses such as “Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion,” Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Workplace” and “Supporting and fostering good mental health in children and adolescents.”

Equally, my sporting background, coaching from grassroots up to elite level, gives a degree of authority when delivering courses such as “How Authentic Leaders use a Sporting Mindset to build effective teams.”

When not teaching, I enjoy mentoring and working with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Roots with Boots

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Roots with Boots

Valérie Besanceney, founder of Roots with Boots, is specialized in the impact of a globally mobile lifestyle on a child’s sense of identity and learning experience. She grew up as a global nomad, holds an M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction, and has taught at six international schools on four different continents. As the author of two children’s books on moving, she offers children a story to identify with and the language and tools to successfully understand their own ‘moving’ story. She is a current board member of Families in Global Transition (FIGT) and the COO of Safe Passage Across Networks (SPAN), two leading organizations that address transitions for families and educators. She also supplies content for online training modules for international schools and has presented many times on the topic of Cross Cultural Childhoods and Transition to staff, parents, and children.

Author of B at Home: Emma Moves Again and My Moving Booklet

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Inclusion Labs

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Inclusion Labs

Inclusion Labs works with schools to empower them to be active and accountable in creating an inclusive community for every pupil.

Our mission is to embed diversity, equity and inclusion into every young person’s educational, cultural and personal development as we believe the impact of which will cultivate awareness and activate investment in eliminating social inequality and injustice wherever they encounter it.

Our schools programme encompasses race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, identity – everything that creates a diverse world.  We believe inclusion initiatives should include everyone and so we have built a programme that considers the intersectional makeup of a school community.

We have developed a programme with corresponding tools to help your school find out where to focus intentions and how to ensure these become impactful action.  Our three-step process includes an anonymous online school community survey, an evaluation presentation, and a precise action plan connected to our custom framework, all with support and guidance from Inclusion Labs.

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EquALLIES

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EquALLIES

Why: EquALLIES builds on the strength of diversity by empowering individuals to lead self and others, creating happier people, inclusive organisations and communities.

How: we apply our breadth and depth of experience to empowering individuals to work together, we create valuable, practical and sustainable solutions, we flex with you, adapting to support every stage of your unique inclusion journey

What: Inclusive Leadership training, consultancy and Ambassador Programme.

Who: Hannah Cotton, Dr Loreen Chikwira, Richard O’Neill

When: Every day is inclusion day! We imbed the skills, knowledge and experience required to build inclusion into homes, workplaces and communities 24/7.

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BelEve

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BelEve

BelEve is a girl-focused organisation working with girls between the ages of 8-18 from disadvantaged backgrounds in London.

Our mission: Equipping girls and young women with the skills, support and confidence to find their voice and make informed choices about their future. Our platforms are underpinned by mentoring to ensure support, guidance and enable empowerment. We aim to provide tools that build self-belief, self-love, self- confidence and address emotional, mental and physical well-being as well as developing leadership and other social qualities empowering girls’ to maximize their life and career prospects.

We are always looking for potential Mentors to support us on our BelEve in Her programme.

If you are a young girl who would benefit from having a Mentor, please get in touch as we have a number of successful women waiting to be a Mentor.

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The Equality Academy

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The Equality Academy

The Equality Academy is committed to supporting conscious leadership in a diverse world through training, facilitation, coaching and consultancy. Our aim is to help you and your business to succeed congruently, by ‘walking your talk’ and living your core values.

We see ED&I as sitting at the heart of the identity and health of any human-led system – diversity is essential to the health and sustainability of all living systems, and human-led systems are no different. Structural inequality, exclusion and the resulting homogeneity in systems are signs and propagators of sickness in an organisational system and need to be addressed as a matter of priority – alongside other priorities such as a good flow of resources and a healthful exchange between the system and its environment.

As a system, the EA seeks itself to work toward health and sustainability in our organisational practices, to ‘walk our talk’. This includes our professional relationships and the way we weave our lived experiences of racism, migration, sexism, Islamophobia, heterosexism, transphobia, class and disability skilfully into our work  with the aim of co-creating with you a seamless, congruent fabric of reflective inner and & outer practice suited to your values, mission, purpose and organisational culture.

We are recognised by ILM as a registered provider to deliver our core ED&I for managers, Inclusive Leadership and mentoring programmes.

As an internationally recognised management training qualification ILM offers a wide range of benefits to participants. Our programmes are delivered to the highest standards, with learning focused on real organisational application and improvement.

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EmpathyLab

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EmpathyLab

Young people are growing up in a society with a major empathy deficit; hate crimes are at their highest level since records began and there are increasing concerns about the negative effects of social media.

EmpathyLab’s vision is to inspire young people to drive an empathy revolution, building a kinder world. We are the first organisation to build children’s empathy, literacy and social activism through a systematic use of high-quality literature. Our strategy builds on new scientific evidence showing that empathy is a learnable skill, and that reading builds real-life empathy skills.

Since our 2015 foundation as a not-for-profit we have established 4 key programmes:

  • An annual Empathy Day in early June (10 June in 2021). See https://www.empathylab.uk/celebrating-empathy-day-2020 for a summary of what happened this year.
  • A whole-school, year round empathy education programme. We also offer one-off training  opportunities for teachers.
  • An annual Read for Empathy book collection for 4-16 year olds, announced every January.
  • Empathy-focused author events. See https://www.empathylab.uk/RFE to find out more.

We’re one of ten grantees given a NESTA grant for developing social and emotional skills through the ‘Future Ready Fund’ – https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/future-ready-fund-winners/.

The new Curriculum for Wales 2022 features empathy heavily. We are working with three clusters of schools in Swansea, Pembroke Dock and Ceredigion. We build schools’ capacity to teach children empathy skills.

Young people are learning what empathy is and why it’s so important; engaging with empathy boosting literature; learning to name, recognise and share emotions and planning how to put empathy into action.

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