The Inspiring Leadership team is delighted to announce an additional five workshops are being added to this year’s conference programme.  The additional workshops will be delivered by Angie Browne, Gemma Davis, Hywel Roberts, Liz Robinson and Martin Morgan.

The newly announced workshops comprise:

• Re-enchanting Equity: A Redemptive Approach to DEI Leadership: led by Angie Browne, a global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultant, this session introduces a ‘redemptive approach’ to DEI Leadership and will help participants re-enchant their equity work by shifting from exploitative or transactional practices to a transformative and ethical leadership model.
• Developing Parental Engagement in School: led by Gemma Davis, Programme Director for Learning With Parents, this workshop will explore what we mean by the term ‘parental engagement’, the difference between parental engagement and parental involvement, and the barriers which parents face when engaging with their child's learning.  It will also give delegates valuable time to think through the barriers faced at each participant's school and provide key takeaways for schools to start to work to improve their partnership with parents.
• Making learning matter through play and promising practice: During this workshop, Hywel Roberts – a popular speaker and educator – will share a manifesto of promise around the 'lived' curriculum in schools.  Hywel believes that too often children are 'delivered to' and as a profession educators have realised that’s not enough. Hywel will share his ideas around 'botheredness', and its key principle that if children feel part of a community, they won't drop out. The session will be research-informed, warm, useful, and grounded in optimism.
• Re-thinking leadership: what do we really need our school leaders to be like: Delivered by co-founder and CEO of Big Education, Liz Robinson, this interactive and reflective session will draw on new global research into leader learning and development, and will explore the principles underpinning emerging approaches and think about what this means for ourselves and our organisations.
• Mastering Difficult Conversations in Challenging Times: In difficult times with budget constraints, reduced capacity and ‘time’ becoming even more valuable, this workshop will give educators a simple but effective model for coaching, challenging conversations and feedback which can increase the impact in their schools. The session will demonstrate how one model can be applied when speaking to leaders, teachers, pupils, parents and trustees/governors, and will be hosted by Martin Morgan Director of Empower Education, and a trainer and leadership consultant.
   

For details of the full workshop and masterclass programme at this year’s conference, click here