The ‘Empowering Young People to Change the World’ online teachers conference series, runs to 15 July, with two events scheduled each week of term time, from 4pm, with regional, national and global speakers and experts contributing to a vibrant, FREE conference, providing unique CPD opportunities.
BOOKINGS FOR EVENTS COMING UP: A summary of events taking place up to July is provided below. Click on the link to the form to book your places for one or more events and receive the links: https://forms.office.com/e/BuxAWHJcHP
The conference series is in its 11th anniversary year and seeks to inform, engage and inspire teachers, teaching assistants, senior leaders and anyone involved in education and supporting young people, by providing opportunities to hear from leading experts, researchers and classroom practitioners, or those with personal stories . Teachers can empower young people to change the world, their mindsets, their aspirations, their world view: their local community, or thinking even bigger – make a lasting difference locally, nationally or internationally.
The conference series applies to STEM, curriculum, disciplinary lens, generic T&L, EAL, creativity, safeguarding and civics, human libraries, genocide prevention, teaching and learning, literacy, tackling disadvantage, community cohesion, leadership, EDI, SEND, SMSC, mental health and wellbeing, pastoral care, PSHE, Holocaust/genocide and human rights education, values and culture, social and moral issues, belonging/community, respect, empathy and inclusion, progression and more.
The #EYP2CtW teacher conference is run by Royal Wootton Bassett Academy (RWBA) and supported by Ascend Learning Trust, Pears Foundation and with partners UCL Centre for Holocaust Education, a supported by organisations and individuals committed to quality educational provision and experience.
EVENTS PROGRAMME
Thursday, 8 May – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 5)
- Dr Sally Burtonshaw (Public First): ‘Tackling Conspiracy Beliefs, Mis and Disinformation in Schools – insights into the scale of the challenge and how we can address it’
- Polly Harrow: ‘The impact of traumatic lived experience on the teenage brain’
Tuesday, 13 May – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 6)
- Richard Littlehales:‘How Do I Know That I Am Not The Weird One In The Room’
- Crista Hazell: ‘Words that Work (and the application for Real World Learning)’
Thursday, 15 May – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 7)
LearningPlanet Institute, Rethinking Assessment and Salzburg Global: ‘Educator Roles for New Approaches to Learning’workshop session co-facilitated by: Olivier Brechard, Chief Operating Officer, Learning Planet Institute
Dominic Regester, Director Education, Salzburg Global and Fran Wilby, National Lead for Programmes and Partnerships, Rethinking Assessment. As the session is externally led, please sign up for this session via: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/c50fpgw7TNue3n1xW4_Tcg#/registration
Tuesday, 20 May – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 8)
- Paul Day:‘New Year’s Resolutions – turning hopes into habits.’
- David Cameron: ‘Teaching to think – a contradiction in terms?’
Thursday, 22 May – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 9)
- Global Equality Collective (GEC) ‘Takeover’: ‘Intentional Inclusion’ (90mins)
Tuesday, 3 June – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 10)
- Ed Hodgson (More in Common):‘What does it mean to teach in a polarised and divided country?’
Thursday, 5 June – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 11)
- Rachel Tomlinson:‘All Together Now for Planet Earth – how young people are changing the world’ (YESfest).
- The Global School Alliance (John Rolfe and colleagues): ‘Bringing the world into your classroom; celebrating global learning in our schools!’
Tuesday, 10 June – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 12)
- Farrah Khan:‘The Little Thing Count’
- Hannah Wilson: ‘Cultivating Belonging in Schools’
Thursday, 12 June – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 13)
- Dr Rebecca Hale and Helen McCord (UCL Centre for Holocaust Education):‘Challenging prevalent misconceptions: Problematising perpetration and complicity in the Holocaust’.
Tuesday, 17 June – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 14)
- Dr Sally Burtonshaw and Pete Whitehead (Public First): ‘Nothing Happens in Isolation – insights and action on exclusion rates in schools’
- Alessandro Bucci: ‘Who Tells the Story Now? Art, Archives, and the Future of Holocaust Education’
Thursday, 19 June – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 15)
- Jason Laing: ‘Rewired: How the Mind Can Rebuild a Life’
- Josh Connolly: ‘Understanding the Impact of Family Dysfunction on Children’
Tuesday, 24 June – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 16)
- Brigadier (Retired) Steve Ismail:‘Becoming an Instrument for Positive Change’
- Emily Preece: (CORE Educate): ‘CORE Hello – From Orientation to Integration: Helping New Students Thrive in the UK’
Tuesday, 1 July – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 17)
- Jodie Clarke: ‘Stop the world I want to get off’ an introduction to autistic burnout in children in young people’
- Salzburg Global, host a ‘Discussion on identity, connection and belonging’ – Dominic Regester is joined by guest speakers Romana Shaikh and Iman Albertini
Thursday, 3 July – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 18)
- Dr Maina Gĩokõ:‘Beyond the Classroom: Interdisciplinary Learning that Inspires Change’
- Shani Cadwallender and Shabnam Anam, in conversation: ‘Other (Please Specify): An Intersectional Education
Thursday, 10 July – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 19)
- Sinéad Mc Brearty (Education Support):‘Grounding ourselves to empower others’
- Leslee Udwin (Think Equal): ‘Teachers As Agents For Social Change’
Tuesday, 15 July – 16:00-17:30 (UK time, Session 20)
- Taban Shoresh OBE:‘The Domino Effect: shaping the change-makers of tomorrow’
- Vic Goddard: ‘Generational change – what is different about our young people and why?’