Dukes Conference 2023 - Information & Preparation

The last few years have highlighted the importance of connection. So, I am delighted that on the 3rd January next year we will come together as one community; a family of nurseries, schools, colleges and Dukes Plus organisations. It will be a celebration of education, a chance to gather in person, share our collective experience and learn alongside each other.

As it says in the Dukes book Building the Crown, “When it comes to education, if your heart’s not in it, the magic just isn’t going to happen.” The theme of this conference is ‘Leading with Heart’, one of Dukes core values. During the conference we will hear from experts who are leaders in their fields, who are deeply invested in their work and believe in the power of education to transform lives.

The event on the day will have three strands, tightly focusing the talks and discussions to ensure that everyone takes a valuable learning back to their own setting.  These strands are: Teaching and Learning, Wellbeing, and Sustainability. Within these broad subject areas, there will be plenty of stimulating, informative talks for all delegates. We hope the day will galvanise you all to continue your wonderful work, empowering young people to lead extraordinary lives.

This brochure details our roster of speakers and what is on offer throughout the day.

We will also celebrate the achievements of our Dukes family members from throughout the entire organisation on the day with the Annual Dukes Awards. This is a unique opportunity to celebrate and recognise the amazing work that you do on a daily basis. Last year we received thousands of nominations for the Annual Dukes Awards There are many categories to choose from so do think seriously about who you would like to put forward for an award.

The awards are judged carefully by Aatif and the board, and this year our winners will be announced and celebrated at the conference.

You will find details on how to choose your sessions and nominate colleagues for awards in this preparation booklet. The deadline for nominations and session choices is 20th October.

RICHARD FLETCHER Director of Performance

DetailsConferenceWhen&Where

The conference takes place at Wembley Stadium on 3rd January 2023 from 8:45am to 4:15pm

ScheduleFormat

08:45 Arrival

10:15 Conference Kick Off

11:40 Block 1 Session

12:30 Networking Lunch and Lightening Talks

14:20 Block 2 Session

15:25 Block 3 Session

Block Sessions

The day will offer you the opportunity to select 3 talks; one from each of the Block Sessions highlighted above. These will be delivered by a superb range of expert speakers. So that we can plan accordingly and make sure that you get to see the speaker of your choice, we need to you to decide in advance what those will be.

Networking Lunch

The networking lunch will give us all an opportunity to meet other members of the Dukes community.

Lightening Talks

The Lightening Talks give you the opportunity to hear from members of your own community. You can decide to attend those on the day and there is no need to book. Places in these are on a first come first served basis.

How to Book

& Deadlines

Read about the various speakers that you can go and see from the three Block Sessions

Scan the QR code or visit dukesconference23surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ to fill out the form with your choices. You will need to pick one from each Block Session

PLEASE COMPLETE STEPS

Choose one option from the following six sessions

PROFESSOR GUY CLAXTON

One of the main reasons why children and young people go to school is to become more skilful, confident, enthusiastic and independent learners - core competencies they will need for university and beyond. This training needs to run through from pre-prep to sixth form. Some classrooms foster this development, but many do the reverse: as exams loom, they make students progressively more dependent, timid and expedient. This talk explores in practical detail the differences between these two types of classroom, and offers suggestions for strengthening a deep learning culture that any teacher, whatever their phase or subject, can implement straightaway.

Using Psychologically Smart Questions to Improve Learning

BRADLEY BUSCH

The right question has the ability to focus attention, enhance curiosity and accelerate learning. This session will look at the evidence around the different types of questions you can ask, the optimal timing of your question and how to increase the likelihood of getting an answer to them. This includes areas such as retrieval practice, pre-questions, elaborative interrogation, cold-calling and wait times.

Comfort, challenge and conversation: teaching for deeper learning

Why is anti-racist practice important in the early years

LIZ PEMBERTON

As children are growing and developing it is our job, as early years educators, to help them form a positive sense of themselves and the people in the world around them. If we are committed to safeguarding and a duty of care we need to acknowledge that for some children how they navigate life will be impacted by their racialised identity. Ignoring the realities of racism is not a helpful approach. This 50 minute talk by award winning,anti-racist early years trainer and consultant Liz Pemberton will expand on the reasons why an anti-racist approach is an essential part of early years practice.

Embracing Vulnerability

CLARKE & CARRIE CARLISLE

Former professional footballer, Clarke Carlisle battled depression and mental illness throughout his career. Clarke is joined by his wife Carrie to share their deeply candid and personal story of their journey together. Known for his eloquence and candour, Clarke will share the depression which dogged most of his adult life and professional career. Clarke shares his story, and his road to recovery, while wife Carrie shares her side and the impact it has had on her too.

10 Principles for Inclusive Leadership

DR NICOLA CROSSLEY

Inclusion is a priority, but how do leaders actually become inclusive?

In this session, Dr Nicola Crossley shares her work in the area of Inclusion and navigates the audience through a number of key areas of inclusion, providing context and understanding, helpful definitions, examples of leadership in action, and ten essential principles of inclusive leadership. Nicola discusses what a culture of inclusion should look like: in classes, in schools, and in the education sector more widely.

The Hundred Year Life

TIM MUNDEN

It is predicted that people born in the developed world today will live on average to the age of 103. This increase in life expectancy has huge implications on how people will live – their education and careers particularly – and on their priorities. Living and working with purpose, lifelong learning and wellbeing, and rethinking value and wealth, are some of the changes educators and leaders need to focus on to enable the 100 year life.

Choose one option from the following six sessions

Self Esteem & Meeting the Demands that life Throws at Us

MANDY SALIGARI

Using 30 years of her personal and professional experience as a therapist Mandy breathes life into the day to day demands we all face with refreshing clarity and humour. She emphasises the importance of our relationships with ourselves as pivotal in our interactions with others both at home and at work, the roles we are set up to play from childhood and how we have more choices than we realise about our quality of life. Mandy illustrates the thought provoking link between vulnerability and the influence of fear that can unconsciously prevent us from banking the self esteem we all seek and want to pass onto our children. She places ‘selfcare as self esteem in action’ at the heart of her approach fostering a respect that frees up communication to become curious and unconditional, reduces the negative impact of stress and makes that feeling of running on empty a thing of the past.

Serving our Pupils

TEACHING & LEARNING PANEL

“Serving our pupils is at the heart of what we do in Dukes. Whether in nurseries, schools, colleges or Dukes Plus we are all united in our moral aim of ensuring the very best for the children gifted to our care. In this discussion we will hear from three eminent education experts about how they believe we can serve our pupils best.

Professor Guy Claxton is a world renowned expert on cognition and learning, Dr Nicola Crossley is a leading expert, practitioner and author on inclusion & neurodiversity, Bradley Busch is an HCPC registered psychologist and the director of InnerDrive helping pupils develop a successful mindset and perform under pressure and Abigail Foster is the founder of Elent a finance education platform.

Chaired by Dukes MD Libby Nicholas this panel discussion will focus on the true value of education and what it means for all of us to Lead With Heart.

Existing in Balance

SUSTAINABILITY PANEL

The Panel explore the nature of sustainability and how how our organisations can exist in balance with the world and embed a culture where sustainability is not a stand alone topic but informs the way we live and lies at the heart of what we do. On the panel are the following:

Richard Dunne, founder and Director of the Harmony Project. Richard is a thought leader in education and sustainability, expert in curriculum development, and The Harmony Project Lead at the Sustainable Food Trust.

Tim Munden, former Chief Learning Officer at Unilever, where he was responsible for leadership development and skill building for Unilever’s 155,000 people around the world. He was also responsible for wellbeing, implementing Unilever’s approach that everyone needs physical, mental, emotional and purposeful wellbeing, and in particular in breaking down the stigma of mental health across Unilever.

Amelie Trolle, an experienced sustainability professional, passionate about driving positive change through great engagement. She has over 15 years’ enhancing environmental and social performance of business and leading educational charity.

Conscious Inclusion

DAWN LEWINSON

‘Has anyone ever made a snap decision about you that was not true?’ By attending this interactive session, we will be looking at why this happens.

We will also challenge your thinking on why we need to consciously include and what it looks like in practice.

Steve Frost (CEO of Included) stated that ‘Unless you consciously include, you will unconsciously exclude”, so we will explore ways in which this happens and how to consciously be effective in what we do, by leading with heart!

EYFS PANEL

Early years teaching is in a period of significant change, from navigating the pedagogical approaches best suited to getting the best out of our youngest charges to dealing with the challenges of the day-to-day. From recruitment and staff retention to providing sustainable and suitable SEND support and finding the right balance in navigating the ever-changing demands of our diverse parent cohort, the list of challenges is ever-growing.

Chaired by Rik McShane, the panel will focus on discussing possible solutions to key issues facing the early years’ industry knowing there is no easy one size fits all solution.

NATASHA EELES

Conversations about sexism and harmful sexual behaviours have become more pressing than ever in the last year. Sparked by the viral Everyone’s Invited website and subsequent Ofsted review into peer-on-peer sexual abuse, this is a topic that has been propelled to the forefront of the education sector with much of the responsibility falling on schools to tackle these issues. At Bold Voices, we have worked with over 20,000 young people, staff and parents in the past year to deliver education on gender inequality and gender-based violence, with a particular focus on centring and amplifying pupil voice. This session will outline the key issues to be tackled and what we’ve learnt about the challenges and advantages of pupil voice as part of a holistic solution for schools.

Putting our children at the heart of a changing world. What are the priorities?

Centring pupil voices as we tackle sexism and harmful sexual behaviours

Choose one option from the following six sessions

The role of the school in family and community cohesion

SIR DAVID CARTER

Sir David Carter explores the role of leadership, governance, school improvement and developing capacity beyond just the exam results and the next inspection.

The session will explain the importance of Nature’s principles of Harmony to a sustainable future and how schools can embed this approach into their practices so that leadership for sustainability is at the heart of what they do. 3

Developing Resilience & Motivation: What the Research Says

BRADLEY BUSCH

‘Resilience’ is such an important trait, but it is in danger of becoming a buzzword and another cliché that gets thrown around. This session will look at what the actual research suggests helps develops resilience and enhances motivation. This will include how to create resilient environments, the importance of self-control and the impact that other people have on our motivation and decisions.

Financial Education

ABIGAIL FOSTER

A personal finance education workshop for all teachers to explore areas such as pensions, payslips and debt, The session will be interactive with material provided and plenty of Q&A time.

‘Putting leadership for sustainability at the heart of education’

RICHARD DUNNE

Living Well

WELLBEING PANEL

The panel will explore the challenges that we are facing and will continue to face as we navigate the complexities of the world. The discussion will also focus on how we can help ourselves and others to navigate these challenges successfully and live well in the process. On the panel are the following:

Alicia Drummond, a BACP accredited therapist, parenting expert, sought after keynote speaker, member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for a Fit and Healthy Childhood, author and a mother. She is regularly sought for her expert opinion by the media.

Tim Munden, former Chief Learning Officer at Unilever, where he was responsible for leadership development and skill building for Unilever’s 155,000 people around the world. He was also responsible for wellbeing, implementing Unilever’s approach that everyone needs physical, mental, emotional and purposeful wellbeing, and in particular in breaking down the stigma of mental health across Unilever.

Mandy Saligari, expert therapist and the founder and clinical director of CHARTER, which was set up in 2008. CHARTER is one of London’s leading outpatient clinics specialising in private addiction treatment, solely in an outpatient setting, as a valid alternative to residential treatment.

PROFESSOR WEST-BURNHAMJOHN

This session will focus on the aphorism generally attributed to Albert Einstein: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” and will explore the implications of three questions:

What are the key issues for education emerging from the prevailing climate crisis?

What are the possible components of a new leadership orthodoxy?

What are the implications for the roles of teachers and students?

So What Now? Time for Learning in Your School to Face the Future

Our Speakers

PROFESSOR GUY CLAXTON

Cognitive scientist and author, Professor Guy Claxton is one of the UK’s foremost thinkers on creativity, learning and the brain. Influencing educational theory and practice across the world, Guy draws on his ‘Building Learning Power’ approach to cultivate the general strengths that people need to thrive in a tricky world.

For more about Professor Guy Claxton visit: guyclaxton.net

BRADLEY BUSCH

Bradley Busch is a chartered psychologist and director of InnerDrive. He is one of the leading experts

on how psychological research can best help students and teachers improve how they think, learn and perform. He wrote two regular blogs for The Guardian and works with Premiership and international footballers. He also helped members of Team GB win medals at London 2012 and Rio 2016.

For more about Bradley Busch visit: innerdrive.co.uk

LIZ PEMBERTON

Liz Pemberton is the Director of The Black Nursery Manager Ltd - a training & consultancy company which focuses on anti-racist practice within Early Years. With 16 years in the education sector, Liz’s roles have included Secondary School Teacher (QTS), public speaker and up until 2020, Nursery Manager, allowing her to teach, manage, support and educate Early Years students, practitioners and professionals in a variety of forums.

For more about Liz Pemberton visit: theblacknurserymanager.com

DR NICOLA CROSSLEY

A research graduate from the University of Exeter, Dr Nicola Crossley is Executive Director for Inclusion at Astrea. Her role involves working with schools to enhance the learning experience for all vulnerable learners; but particularly those who are disadvantaged and/or have special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Her specialist interest areas are Autism and Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) and she is passionate about improving provision in these areas, in particular. Nicola is co-author of ‘Inclusion: A Principled Guide for School Leaders’ and is an Honorary Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick.

CLARKE & CARRIE CARLISLE

Clarke Carlisle is a former Premier League footballer, television presenter and author. His wife Carrie is a newspaper columnist, author and TV presenter. Clarke came to public prominence as a Premier League footballer who played for Burnley, QPR, Northampton and represented England at U.21 level. After his playing career ended, he moved into broadcasting working for ITV on their football coverage and he authored two documentaries, Football’s Suicide Secret and the critically acclaimed documentary “Is Football Racist?” for the BBC. He also wrote a book about his career A Footballer’s Life. As a former Chairman of the PFA Clarke was a well-known figure in football but he came to the attention of the wider public after a high-profile suicide attempt, his second attempt, after a career blighted my mental health issues. He and his wife Carrie together offer the dual insight to what it is like to live with a mental illness and what it is like to live with someone with a mental illness.

TIM MUNDEN

Tim Munden is former Chief Learning Officer at Unilever, where he was responsible for leadership development and skill building for Unilever’s 155,000 people around the world. He was also responsible for wellbeing, implementing Unilever’s approach that everyone needs physical, mental, emotional and purposeful wellbeing, and in particular in breaking down the stigma of mental health across Unilever. Tim is now Director at Kairon, Supporting CEOs, leaders, leadership teams and organisations to embrace the complexity and disruption of the 21st Century, delivering purpose and performance.. He is also Director at The Foundation for Transformational Leadership, delivering leadership development for young global leaders. Tim still works at Unilever overseeing the Senior Leadership Development Practice as a consultant.

MANDY SALIGARI

Expert therapist, Mandy Saligari, is the founder and clinical director of CHARTER, which was set up in 2008. CHARTER is one of London’s leading outpatient clinics specialising in private addiction treatment, solely in an outpatient setting, as a valid alternative to residential treatment. Mandy is a highly respected and established expert – passionate about helping people live healthy, happy, addiction free lives and preventing addiction running through families and society. Mandy is a regular contributor to press and television and is passionate about dispelling the myths surrounding addiction and mental health. Mandy is also committed to regular talks at schools on early intervention, addiction, emotional coping mechanisms and self-esteem.

For more about Mandy Saligari visit: mandysaligari.com

PAM MUNDY

Pam Mundy is Director of Pam Mundy Associates Ltd. and a highly experienced K -12 education professional with a specialism in Early Childhood Education. Pam is an internationally renowned author and keynote speaker with global recognition for her specialism in the development of international education and school start-up, particularly in SE Asia, the UAE, Latin America, China, and the USA. She operates at both strategic and executive level for a wide range of international school groups, businesses and educational organisations.

DAWN LEWINSON

Dawn Lewinson is Director and Founder of Diversity Inspired Solutions Ltd. In this role she has extensive experience of supporting national and international organisations on a range of workplace diversity and inclusion issues and undertakes training and consultancy work with organisations on specialist work areas such as, Unconscious Bias and Inclusive Recruitment, Dignity at work, Creating and managing effective teams, Cultural competence, Race awareness, Anti-Racist training, and Inclusive Leadership.

For more information about Dawn Lewinson visit: diversityinspired.solutions or to contact her email: infor@diversityinspired.solutions

AMELIE TROLLE

Amelie Trolle is an experienced sustainability professional, passionate about driving positive change through great engagement. Over 15 years’ enhancing environmental and social performance of business and leading educational charity. Proven record of successfully embedding sustainability in organisational culture, identifying and managing sustainability indicators and risks, inspiring positive change through compelling methods of engagement, and managing educational sustainability programmes from inception to finished product. Amelie thrives in collaborative and ambitious environments, she is pragmatic and brings an optimistic and solutions-oriented approach.

NATASHA EELES

Natasha Eeles is Founder of Bold Voices, an award-winning social enterprise that empowers educational communities to recognise and tackle gender inequality and cultures of genderbased violence. Entrepreneur, passionate gender equality advocate and educational speaker. Natasha founded Bold Voices in 2018 after seeing a need for people to develop a critical awareness of gender inequality. Natasha has an academic foundation in issues of gender and equality with an MSc in Gender and International Relations.

For more about Bold Voices visit: boldvoices.co.uk

SIR DAVID CARTER

Sir David Carter was the National Schools Commissioner from 1 February 2016 to 31 August 2018. Before his appointment he was the first Regional Schools Commissioner for the South West. David is a music graduate of the University of London and has taught music in comprehensive schools across the country since he started teaching in September 1983. In 1997, he became headteacher of Cirencester Deer Park School in Gloucestershire. He received a knighthood for services to education in the Queen’s birthday honours in 2013.

RICHARD DUNNE

Richard Dunne is a thought leader in Education for Sustainability, an expert in curriculum development, and The Harmony Project’s Founder and Director.  He also works as part of the Eden Project’s international education team. Richard has worked in education for over 30 years and was the headteacher of an Ofsted-graded ‘Outstanding’ school until he left to set up The Harmony Project.  In his school, he developed a curriculum of learning based on principles of Harmony that enable systems in Nature to be resilient, healthy and sustainable. These principles guide and inform the way a ‘Harmony curriculum’ is structured, providing a coherent and meaningful framework for National Curriculum learning objectives to be delivered. Sustainability practices run through all aspects of this curriculum and on into school life.

For more information about the Harmony Project visit: theharmonyproject.org.uk

Professor John West-Burnham is a writer, teacher and consultant in education leadership with a particular interest in leadership learning and development, and learning in schools and communities. He has been a school teacher, teacher trainer and education officer, and has held posts in five universities. He is Professor of Educational Leadership at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham. John is the author or editor of 23 books and he has worked in 21 countries.

ALICIA DRUMMOND

Alicia Drummond is a BACP accredited therapist, parenting expert, sought after keynote speaker, member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for a Fit and Healthy Childhood, author and a mother. She is regularly sought for her expert opinion by the media. Having worked with schools across the UK for more than a decade delivering webinars, talks and workshops to parents, carers, staff, and pupils; in 2020 Alicia created The Wellbeing Hub. This award-winning platform provides schools with a whole school, pro-active approach to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of young people, now in over 130 schools in the UK, impacting over 84,000 pupils.

For more information about Alicia Drummond and her work visit: teentips.co.uk/wellbeing-hub

ABIGAIL FOSTER

Abigail Foster is the founder of Elent a finance education platform. Abi’s passion lies in eradicating the gender gaps that exists in society today. “I know taking personal finance workshops into schools and businesses across the UK can have lasting effects on the adults of tomorrow. “Despite finance education being ‘expected’ in the UK curriculum it is not happening and Elent is here to change this.”

For more information about the work of Elent visit: elent.co.uk

WELLBEING INITIATIVE

AWARD

School/team/individual that has implemented effective wellbeing initiatives for students and staff.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

Any school/team/individual within Dukes

WHO CAN NOMINATE?

Any employee

MARKETING INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR

The marketing initiative that has demonstrated excellence in embodying the school/team’s core brand and delivered tangible outcomes.

SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

The school that has delivered tangible initiatives around sustainability. These could include reducing the carbon footprint of the school, delivering innovative sustainable educational projects, or community outreach to support sustainability goals.

STAFF MEMBER OF THE YEAR

A member of staff who has demonstrated exceptional performance and achieved positive development outcomes for both students and colleagues.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

Any Marketing team/individual WHO CAN NOMINATE?

Any employee

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

Any withinschool/team/individualDukes

WHO CAN NOMINATE?

Any employee

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

Any staff member from any nursery/school

WHO CAN NOMINATE? Any employee

NEW STAFF MEMBER OF THE YEAR

A member of staff with under three years’ experience who has made a significant impact on their students and school.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

Any staff member (with under three years’ experience) from any nursery/school

WHO CAN NOMINATE?

Any employee