Is your school racist?
11th February 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Join us for this challenging and thought provoking webinar, ‘Is your school racist?’ on 11th February at 4:00 PM. The webinar is presented by Angie Cord (Director of Curriculum & Education) & Lara Sengupta (Founder & CEO), Every Future Foundation.
Join us for an insightful and challenging webinar titled “Is Your School Racist?” This session is designed for school and trust leaders, as well as educators, to critically reflect on the anti-racism culture within their settings.
Key Topics:
Racial Literacy: Understanding and improving racial awareness and sensitivity.
Microaggressions: Identifying and addressing subtle, often unintentional, discriminatory comments or actions.
Safeguarding: Ensuring the safety and well-being of all students, particularly those from minority backgrounds.
Diversifying Curriculums: Strategies for creating inclusive and representative educational content.
Interactive Elements:
Q&A Session: Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage directly with the presenters.
Practical Strategies: Learn actionable steps and best practices to foster an anti-racist environment in your school.
This webinar promises to be a thought-provoking and practical session, equipping you with the tools and knowledge to make meaningful changes in your educational setting. Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of the conversation and drive positive change.
About our presenters:
Lara
Lara’s personal experience of being a racialised minority child and then an adult growing up in London, played a major part in the creation of Every Future Foundation (Originally: Breakfast Clubs Against Racism).
Lara has experience working in international non-profits and social enterprises, including her past business which combined yoga with workshops in Kolkata, India, providing human trafficking victims with employable skills and a support network for rehabilitation.
Lara now lives in Cambridgeshire, with her partner and two young children.
Angie
Angie is a Senior Lecturer and consultant specialising in Education and Antiracist Education Practice, with 17 years of experience in the primary and higher education sectors. As the leader of Hackney’s Diverse Curriculum initiative and with a recent MA in Social Justice and Education from UCL, she is deeply committed to eradicating racism and inequalities in education and beyond.
Angie’s passion is rooted in her experiences as a mixed-heritage educator with an East Asian background. She brings her years of experience as an educator to support EFF with curriculum development and understanding the education sector from an educators lens.
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