with Pranav Patel, NAHT Discovery Education Pathway author
Anti-oppression and racism impacts every facet of our lives as educators. This is through the structural and institutional systems that pervade our society. This session will incorporate decolonisation, diversification of the curriculum, behaviour, assessment and human resources. Considering:
A Black boy who is SEND and FSM is 168 times more likely to be excluded when compared with a white girl without those labels. (Timpson)
Pupils of colour are always more likely to be underassessed in English than white pupils. And over 50% of Teachers of Colour citing that they see microaggressions daily.
Can anyone of us in our role really not work towards a fairer workplace and a safer place for all of our pupils?
Aim:
Be able to complete an analysis of quantitative data and start to interrogate your workplace.
Facilitator Profile:
Pran has 17 years of teaching experience working recently as an assistant principal. He has an exciting career in leadership; leading standards; behaviour; data; professional development, and curriculum. His NPQSL project was to lead whole-school coaching and has been a successful coach for over a decade. Pran has suffered from depression, anxiety and sleeplessness for much of his life; he firmly believes that we should accept and embrace these issues as illnesses. As such he firmly stands as a mental health advocate, he recently featured in the BBC documentary ‘Why teaching is making me ill’ and has spoken openly about the pressure of the education sector. As a man of colour, Pran ascribes as a member of the ‘Global Majority’. While at university in the year 2000 he started his journey on the anti-racist road. In his inspirational TEDx talk ‘Decolonise the Curriculum’ he describes the moment he realised that the world was tiered away from an authentic truth and that started with the school curriculum. In this vein he recently featured in the Sky News Film ‘Slavery in Britain: What don’t we know?’ Alongside Prof Davide Olugosa, Prof Christopher J Brown, Prof Diana Paton and Prof Olivette Otele.