The North West conference will inspire you to lead, have a great impact in your leadership roles and allow you the opportunity to develop new skills, ask key questions and learn from the speakers and other members from across the region.
Workshop sessions
Building leadership influence and impact - The Change Arc
Challenging outdated leadership narratives to help you to develop your understanding of yourself as a leader this session will provide a valuable experience to all who attend.
TCA will equip school leaders with a practical framework to build more impact in their multiple roles. This will be an unmissable engaging and interactive workshop.
The Change Arc is a strategic impact agency. Through our work, we help leaders and teams put the foundations in place to build influence and impact.
SEND in the ‘hot seat’
What does an Ofsted Report Card mean for ‘inclusion’ in your school communities?
What do we need the proposed SEND White Paper to say?
What does the DfE mean by Ordinary Available and Enhanced Provision?
Lorraine Petersen Education Consultancy will provide a dynamic session for leaders of all types of schools in these fast-moving times. Providing practical ideas and support for all school leaders.
Programme
| 0845 - 0915 |
Registration and Networking |
| 0915 |
Conference Welcome - Nicola Kearney, NAHT Regional Secretary |
| 0930 - 1000 |
The Rise of Extremism - how and why we need to challenge! - Kudia Batool, Head of Equalities, International and Strategic Governance, TUC |
| 1000 - 1100 |
Practical Disruption in Leadership - The Change Arc |
| 1100 - 1115 |
Break and refreshments |
| 1115 - 1145 |
Practical Disruption in Leadership - The Change Arc, continued |
| 1145 - 1215 |
Conference Sponsor - Public Sector Analytics |
| 1215 - 1300 |
Lunch & exhibition viewing |
| 1300 -1400 |
Matters of the moment and Q&A with Paul Whiteman, NAHT General Secretary |
| 1400 - 1500 |
SEND in the hotseat - Lorraine Petersen OBE |
| 1500 - 1515 |
Break and refreshments |
| 1515 - 1545 |
SEND in the hotseat - Lorraine Petersen OBE, continued |
| 1545 - 1600 |
Conference Close - Rachel Younger, NAHT President |
Speaker Profiles
Lorraine Petersen
Lorraine has 25 years’ experience in the mainstream school environment as a teacher and Head Teacher. From 2004 – 2013 Lorraine was CEO of nasen, a charitable organisation supporting all those who work with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. As a result, Lorraine has many years’ experience of working with pupils with an array of special and additional needs and the teachers, SENCOs and support staff that work with them.
During her time as CEO of nasen, Lorraine worked on a number of projects with various agencies including the Department for Education, the National College of Teaching and Leadership (formally the Teaching Agency) and UKTI. She has been a chair, keynote speaker and workshop facilitator at many national and international events and conferences as well as a consultant for a number of national organisations.
In 2013 Lorraine established Lorraine Petersen Educational Consultancy and currently works independently, delivering training and supporting schools and local authorities with their SEND, mental health & wellbeing and safeguarding policy and practice.
Lorraine is currently delivering a DfE approved Senior Mental Health Lead Training programme on behalf of “Innovating Minds”
Currently she chairs the NSEND Forum and facilitates FLSE.
Booking conditions
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