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Political impartiality for school leaders during a general election

Attend this informative session to clarify your understanding around what schools can and should do during the election period

13th Jun 2024 5:00pm

All members: Free

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Attend this informative session to clarify your understanding around Political impartiality for school leaders during a general election.

About this event

School Leaders have a responsibility for a wide range of priorities, policies and areas in their schools. Balancing the statutory duty to remain impartial whilst supporting British Values and developing students’ political literacy in the run up to a general election can become more complex. This is particularly so as interest in the news, political campaigning and the election draws nearer.  This free online session is designed to clarify your understanding around Political impartiality for school leaders during a general election.

Presenters, Professor Lee Jerome from Middlesex University and ACT’s Head of Education, Zoe Baker have undertaken a wide range of work on how to remain impartial when teaching political issues. Join this webinar to work with school and subject leaders and explore the principles of impartiality and how to maintain this across your school and curriculum. Explore scenarios, establish what good practice looks like, and consider a model school policy. Above all, if you are looking for advice and support on how to navigate impartiality whilst working within curriculum requirements and the legal framework, then this session is for you.

Who is it for?

  • School leaders and Governors
  • Personal Development leaders
  • Citizenship subject leaders
  • Curriculum leaders.

CPD strand – Politics, Elections and Society

Building upon the CPD offering in the previous year and feedback from our members, we have introduced a new strand entitled ‘Politics, Elections and Society’ which provides broader subject knowledge enhancement and incorporates a range of elements from previous CPD strands.

Event team

Meet the team who will be running this event

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Zoe Baker

Head of Education and Professional Development (ACT)

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Professor Lee Jerome

University of Middlesex

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Zoe Baker

Head of Education and Professional Development (ACT)

Zoe leads on the development and delivery of professional learning, working with a range of agencies and ACT regional Teaching Ambassadors. She ensures that our teachers have a wealth of material to draw on to support their roles in school. Zoe’s qualifications include a History and Social Science BA hons, PGCE, and Fellowship of Holocaust Education. She also works on the ITT programme at Canterbury Christ Church University, and she has been a teacher in Kent for over 20 years, as well as an ACT teaching advisor. Zoe is also a freelance educator at the Holocaust Educational Trust, working on the Lessons From Auschwitz Project and accompanying survivors into schools to deliver their testimony.

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Professor Lee Jerome

University of Middlesex

Lee is leading our research team on the ACT active citizenship programme, and he coordinates the research and evaluates the impact of ACT’s work. Lee also edits the journal ‘Education, Citizenship and Social Justice’ and he is co-editor of ‘Teaching Citizenship’. He has a PhD Citizenship Education, MA Colonial and Post-colonial History, and PGCE Social Science. For the past 18 years, Lee has worked in higher education training teachers, running MA and CPD programmes, and supervising doctoral students. He was also Education Director at the Institute for Citizenship. And he was a history and sociology teacher  in secondary schools.

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