Creating Value in Schools
Creating Value in Schools
Podcast Description
How can we make schools more sustainable – in all senses of the word? How can school leaders promote a sustainable way of working? Make best use of our resources, in a way that’s good for people and planet? In conversation with school leaders, we exchange insights and ideas.
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Content Themes
Explores themes of sustainability in schools, diversity and inclusion strategies, income generation, and leadership challenges with episodes addressing school-community engagement and creating positive organizational cultures.
How can we make schools more sustainable – in all senses of the word? How can school leaders promote a sustainable way of working? Make best use of our resources, in a way that’s good for people and planet? In conversation with educators, we exchange insights and ideas. Hosted by Liz Worthen, an educator, researcher and writer, whose career in education spans teaching, training and content development. For more from the Creating Value in Schools community, visit www.createvalueschools.com
Yamina Bibi explores how removing barriers, creating belonging and providing the right support can help people thrive – and why that matters for recruiting, retaining and getting the best from our school workforce.
Drawing on learning from the Mission 44 Diversity in ITT project, Yamina talks to host Liz Worthen about how schools can remove barriers to recruitment, retention and progression for staff with protected characteristics.
They discuss:
- The connection between inclusion, retention, belonging and thriving.
- The importance of building your own awareness of racial literacy and the impact of other protected characteristics.
- How organisations need to be proactive in putting processes in place to respond to discrimination, learning from safeguarding approaches and recognising that just because it’s not been reported so far, it doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
- The responsibility of leaders to be active in removing barriers, rather than expecting individuals to overcome them.
- How reasonable adjustments and inclusive practice can benefit everyone.
- What a portfolio career can look like and bringing your authentic self to work.
“We’re talking a lot about belonging for young people, but are we talking about it for staff and staff with protected characteristics?”
Yamina Bibi FCCT is a former deputy head and English teacher, a consultant, CPD trainer and author of A Little Guide for Teachers: Thriving in Your First Years of Teaching. She is the Chiltern Teaching School Lead for Strategic Partnerships and School Transformation.
Liz Worthen’s career in education spans teaching, training, commissioning and programme development. Creating Value in Schools is all about sustainable working: taking care of people, planet and resources to secure better outcomes for children and communities.
Links and resources
- Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/i2429o
- Kim Scott’s TED Talk, How to lead with radical candour: https://www.ted.com/talks/kim_scott_how_to_lead_with_radical_candor
- The radical candour framework: https://modelthinkers.com/mental-model/radical-candor-framework
- Mission 44 Diversity in Teaching project: https://mission44.org/diversity-in-education-fund/
- Increasing Diversity in Initial Teacher Training (free online course) https://chartered.college/diversity-in-itt-course/
- WomenEd: Women Leaders in Education https://womened.com/
- Belonging Effect (formerly Diverse Educators): https://www.thebelongingeffect.co.uk/
- Maisie Cass episode: https://createvalueschools.com/podcast/what-about-the-adults-neuroinclusion-in-schools–maisie-cass/
- Hannah Wilson episode: https://createvalueschools.com/podcast/who-gets-to-belong-in-schools-with-hannah-wilson/
- Find recommended reads in the Creating Value in Schools bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/createvalueschools
Chapters
00:00 Welcome and Big Question
00:49 Mentors Who Made a Difference
03:05 Radical Candour Explained
04:16 Mission 44 Diversity Project
05:08 Barriers in Recruitment Retention Assessment
08:00 Leader Strategies and Racial Literacy
11:59 Reporting Policies and Zero Tolerance
13:43 Intersectionality and Neuroinclusion
17:07 Reasonable Adjustments and Advocacy
19:18 Community Networks and Reading Picks
21:49 What’s Next for Yamina
23:32 Closing and Further Listening
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