Leadership

School leaders have an important role to play in ensuring schools and learning communities strive to promote equality and diversity, in ensuring everyone is treated with respect and that individual differences are valued.

School leaders not only have to consider their own role in avoiding and/or addressing institutional discrimination, but also ensure that they themselves are positive role models for the whole school community.

There is also the added responsibility of making sure that everyone is provided the same equal opportunities, particularly in terms of recruitment, to ensure Scotland’s diversity is represented across the teaching population in our schools to support and inspire Scotland’s young people.

• A Case for Leadership Diversity
• Dyslexia – a guide for employers (PDF)
• Inclusion Scotland – Accessible and Effective Remote Working
• Race, Identity and School Leadership Programme
• What is the duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people – Equality and Human Rights Commission (YouTube)
• Unconscious Bias – recruitment (Shire Professional 2015) (YouTube)
• TEAMS project: teaching that matters for migrant students
• TES – Trust me as a Teacher, Respect me as a Black Man
• TEDxBristol – Why Representation Really Matters, Aisha Thomas Feb 2020 (YouTube)
• Wholeness and School Leadership: Why Race and Identity Matter