Racial Inclusion Training for Staff

Our workshops have been designed to address the most prevalent challenges in the education sector, informed by history, data, and the continuous feedback received from teachers, parents, students, and schools.

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TRAINING FOR ALL STAFF (INCLUDING BUSINESS & SUPPORT)

The Rationale for Racial Inclusion

Content:

  • Black British history and omission
  • The history of racism & and its legacy
  • Racism, inequality & inequity
  • The institutional case for anti-racism and attending to all stakeholders
  • The benefits of racial inclusion for all
  • Racial inclusion under the Equality Act
  • Racial inclusion as a safeguarding issue

Duration: 60 – 75 mins

Format: Presentation and open forum

Let’s Just Talk about Race: Towards Racial Literacy, Confidence, and Competence

Content:

  • Racial literacy – introduction to terminology
  • How to ask questions and end awkwardness
  • Acquiring racial literacy and racial competency
  • Understanding common microaggressions and their impacts
  • Facilitating informed conversations about race and racism

The microaggressions in the workshops can be informed by staff, students, and/or those that ACEN facilitators commonly come across, both inside & outside of the school environment.

We strongly recommend that all workshops include the presentation ‘The Rationale for Racial Inclusion’ to contextualise thinking which aids workshop participation. Timings will be adjusted if procured together and suggested timings will then be 45 minutes for the presentation and 60-75 minutes for the workshop.

Duration: 75 – 90 mins

Format: Group workshops

Cultural Competency and Situational Bias

Content:

  • Understanding bias across the education sector
  • Understanding where bias can occur within an institution
  • Cultural competency & humility
  • Understanding where a lack of cultural competency can impact bias and decision-making (classroom, HR & Admissions)

We strongly recommend that all workshops include the presentation ‘The Rationale for Racial Inclusion’ to contextualise thinking which aids workshop participation. Timings will be adjusted if procured together and suggested timings will then be 45 minutes for the presentation and 60-75 minutes for the workshop.

Duration: 75 – 90 mins

Format: Group workshops

From Bystander to Upstander Intervention

This session consisting of a short presentation and a case study-based interactive workshop will allow staff to work through multiple forms of discrimination examples and the concepts of allyship and upstander intervention.

The scenario-based examples can be informed by staff, students, and/or those that ACEN facilitators commonly come across, both inside and outside of the school environment.

We strongly recommend that all workshops include the presentation ‘The Rationale for Racial Inclusion’ to contextualise thinking which aids workshop participation.

In addition, we recommend that this training occurs after or alongside the ‘Let’s Just Talk about Race: Towards Racial Literacy, Confidence, and Competence’ workshop, so that participants have gained the confidence to recognise and challenge the more subtle forms of discrimination that largely constitute the issues reported in education settings.

Timings will be adjusted if all three are procured together and suggested timings will then be 45 minutes for the presentation and 75-120 minutes for the workshop.

Duration: 75 – 90 mins

Format: Group workshops

TRAINING FOR GOVERNORS & SLT

Understanding & Strategically Planning EDI 

Content

  • Recognising EDI strands and needs relevant to your setting
  • Understanding and communicating the business case and benefits of EDI to different stakeholders within your setting
  • Utilising data
  • Strategy guidance
  • Metric setting and progress measurement
  • Facilitated SLT, Department, Student & Parent conversations – On request

Duration: 120 min meeting – After prior background research conducted