Most multi-academy trusts I work with can share their values, their strategic plan, and their leadership structure. What is sometimes more difficult is understanding what it actually feels like to work there. And that is the part that determines almost everything else: whether talented people stay, whether honest conversations happen, whether the trust feels likeContinue reading “What your staff survey is not telling you”
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Prepare the world for them
Seven of Blackpool’s neighbourhoods sit in the top ten most deprived in the country. FCAT’s education, employment, and training rate is 98%. From Blackpool to Stoke-on-Trent, what inclusive pathways for young people with SEND look like when places stop waiting for national policy to catch up. Last week, I was in Blackpool with The EdgeContinue reading “Prepare the world for them”
Inclusion is not a Policy, it is an Experience.
A story about a young person, a camping trip, and what inclusion actually looks like. On equity, opportunity, and the relational integrity that holds it all together. When Alex was in primary school, he found it hard to belong. He had been bullied by teachers, struggled to make friends, and outside of football at breakContinue reading “Inclusion is not a Policy, it is an Experience.”