Key Voices

This week we talk to Viv Grant, Founder of Integrity Coaching and Colette Morris, Headteacher at Christ Church Primary School. Viv has created a programme called Race, Identity and School Leadership and Christ Church Primary are participating in it.  Colette and her staff have been working with Viv to explore their own racial identities, bring about long-lasting change and impact whole school leadership, learning, policy and practice with regards to race equality.   We talk about: The history of work that has been going on in schools regarding race and how this conversation is now starting to broaden out and involve more schools The importance of understanding your own racial identity and how you view the world before rushing to antiracist “action” Why school leaders and their staff should become experts in the racial context of their schools and should seek to understand the conversations that take place both in school and outside school about race The need for teachers to understand and be comfortable