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The aim of the website is to model lessons and bring together a variety of resources and links to help teachers successfully embed the values and knowledge of global citizenship, sustainability and antiracist education, into their daily teaching activities. Most of the resources are aimed at the primary Curriculum for Excellence framework, with suggestions towards the secondary curriculum.

Global citizenship is not a subject, nor is there any value in only holding stand-alone themed events around diversity. Instead it is an ethos that must flow among all the areas that we teach, and all the experiences young people have within the education system.

EduKit exists to help schools improve student outcomes by focusing on all of the things that children need to learn at school, that they can’t study in books. Positive wellbeing, mental health and self-worth are important areas of focus for us, and through our support students are empowered to understand themselves, their place in the world, their options after school and how they can change society for the better.

We achieve this through our EduKit Mobile app and the pastoral surveys that we offer to schools. The app empowers students to take ownership over the wellbeing and is packed with useful video and online resources to help them along the way. We also partner with a network of over 1,000 youth organisations able to help children to access impactful, life-changing support, training and guidance. We champion diversity, equality and acceptance and seek opportunities to showcase our fantastic partners who do the same.

Our ‘Girls in lockdown’ zine containing work by teenage girls created over lockdown – we’re looking
for entries from teachers for our next issue!

issuu.com/beherlead/docs/girls_in_lockdown_zine

https://www.beherlead.com/zine

The Square Pegs Education UK was established in September 2019 by Lizzy Swan to provide support to schools and their staff with mental health and well-being.

Through coaching and training we aim to remove the stigma from talking about mental health at work to help schools retain their best staff and teachers to sustain their well-being.

Our Director, Lizzy Swan, has 18 years experience of teaching in schools and 12 years at senior leadership level across a range of sectors including mainstream and special schools. Lizzy provides teachers and leaders with strategies and tools to support well-being and improve outcomes in school. We support staff and leaders with ‘difficult conversations’, managing workload, behaviour management, and setting healthy boundaries to avoid ‘burnout’. Lizzy’s coaching and training is embedded within the principles of positive psychology to enable all staff to flourish and be happy at work and in life.

We have been published in ‘The Secondary Curriculum Leaders Handbook’ edited by Roy Blatchford and published by John Catt Educational.

For Headteachers – Aspiring, current and former.

These are complex and challenging times for Leaders in education.  Increasingly Headteachers are feeling, and are made to feel, vulnerable due to short-termism, high stakes accountability and unethical employer behaviours.

Highly skilled, highly trained, highly experienced professionals, often with excellent track records in previous leadership posts and indeed in their current one, are leaving their posts.  Sometimes this is by choice, often it is not, placed in an impossible position by their employer, many feeling that they have no alternative but to move away from the school that they have dedicated themselves to.  Some manage to find their way back into education, many do not… lost to the system.

Now Teach recruits experienced professionals into teaching. We connect career changers and returners to work with teacher training providers. Collaboration with both throughout training ensures Now Teachers remain in the profession long term.

The Now Teach network develops dedicated teachers for schools, bringing diversity and valuable real-world experience to the class and to the staff room. We tailor our recruitment process to career changers and have developed a programme of wrap-around support for our network.

Founded in 2016, we are a not-for-profit charity with a vision to inspire talented people to bring their experience into education and help eradicate inequality of opportunity.

Set up in the midst of a teacher recruitment crisis, our goal is to normalise career change into teaching for the mutual benefit of pupils, schools and new entrants into the profession.

Since our founding, Now Teach has expanded to become an England-wide organisation. Since 2016, we have brought over 650 experienced professionals into Education, including the newest cohort of 144 trainees in 2022. Previous trainees have included MPs, CEOs, and a NASA scientist and return to work parents.

Mermaids supports trans and gender questioning kids and young people up until their 20th birthday. They also offer support to their parents and professionals involved in young peoples’ care. Their helpline, web chat and email service aims to reach kids and their parents when they need someone to talk to, and it’s open from 9am to 9pm, Monday to Friday. Local peer support groups, family residential trips and Pride events offer their families and young people a chance to connect with people experiencing similar challenges and triumphs. Mermaids also offer CPD accredited training to a variety of organisations, including schools, GP’s, businesses and more.

Through all their services, Mermaids aims to alleviate any stress associated with gender diversity for young people and their families, and create a safer, more accepting world for them.

We exist to transform lives through social justice. Inspired and named after real-life events, Makana Leadership Ltd provides a range of services to schools, trusts and third sector throughout the UK to support them with their strategic and leadership development. We work collaboratively with CEOs, system leaders, headteachers, trustees and a range of other partners to support in the delivery of authentic and sustainable leadership solutions. Why? Because social justice matters.

Our vision is to change the way we think about leadership to ensure social justice and achievement for all. The success of our values-led mission hinges on three key principles: 1. That the change is sustainable, deep-rooted, and impacts on pupil outcomes; 2. That the change is purposeful, pivotal and adds value in a diverse society, and; 3. That the change is wholesome and nourishes the community, to ensure that people continue to thrive.

Our founder Andrew Morrish has been a headteacher since the age of 29. For the next two decades or so, he has worked across the country, almost exclusively in challenging, urban, multicultural schools, trying to make a difference to people’s lives. He knows the journey of school transformation inside out and is the author of ‘The Art of Standing Out’. Andrew is a former founder trust CEO, Ofsted inspector and National Leader of Education.

Lifting Limits works to challenge gender stereotyping – a root cause of inequality – in and through education. Our vision is of a world in which every child makes their own path in life, free from the limiting effects of gender stereotyping on their choices and aspirations.

Stereotyping surrounds children and it doesn’t stay outside the school gates – rather, it is reinforced in schools through language, displays, books, curriculum teaching and the assumptions of adults and peers. All this gives children messages about what is expected of girls and boys, women and men – and it happens young, at a crucial stage in children’s learning about the world and their place in it.

That is why our programme supports primary schools to recognise and address gender stereotyping and bias in the school environment and to equip their pupils to challenge stereotyping wherever they encounter it.

Using an evidence based whole school approach, our programme includes staff training, workshops for parents and a raft of practical resources to support school staff apply a gender lens in their practice. Tested in our pilot year, this approach has proven impact in raising awareness and changing attitudes in schools, their staff and pupils (view the pilot impact report).

Lifting Limits is delighted to be shortlisted for the 2020 National Diversity Awards