An exciting partnership

#DiverseEd

At Lyfta we want to help those who value human diversity, who see the value in fostering empathy and compassion.

The notion of humanising diversity has always been central to our mission and the Lyfta platform provides a powerful resource to allow teachers to facilitate human encounters for students that they might not otherwise get the chance to have. We want to give teachers and students a portal to discover the world and meet people beyond their immediate environment so that they can engage with the lived experience of their fellow citizens to build a more compassionate world.

We were delighted to be part of the #DiverseEd Big Virtual Conversation Part 1 back in June and have been committing to our pledge made at the end of the event:

"Our pledge is to continue to work hard to represent diversity in the human stories we produce and commission, in terms of central characters and in terms of those telling/directing/producing the stories."

#MYDIVERSEEDPLEDGE

Diverse Educators is a grassroots community and series of events co-founded by Bennie Kara and Hannah Wilson www.diverseeducators.co.uk

"We are excited to be partnering with Carnegie School of Education, based at Leeds Beckett University, Lyfta and teaglo as organisations who are committed to the work we are doing to amplify diverse voices in education. Our community reflects the intersectionality of the human identity and aims to signpost the great work happening in the sector to make it easier for educators to navigate the work the system needs to do on diversity, equity and inclusion in schools."

HANNAH WILSON

CO-FOUNDER DIVERSE EDUCATORS

Run like an unconference, the Saturday grassroots event is a combination of keynote speeches, panel discussions and facilitated workshops. For a flavour of the valuable perspectives and ideas that come out of the DiverseEd events you can read our two part blog here and here

There are 4 events already planned for this year: October 17th will be the next virtual event, January 16th will be the next #DiverseEd South in Slough, April 10th will be the first event in the Midlands and will focus on Early Career Teachers, and #DiverseEd North will happen in Leeds on June 12th.

About the other #DiverseEd partners:

Teaglo - the Teacher Social Network, gives teachers complete control over their professional profile, network, career, and resources, and provides schools with an alternative to expensive recruitment agencies, all in one place, for free.

With a friendly, global community of 5000+ educators from 125 countries, we are delighted to be partnering with Diverse Educators in our drive to find, feature and amplify fresh teacher voices on our platform and blog.

Find out more about teaglo here.

Carnegie School of Education

Carnegie School of Education based at Leeds Beckett are delighted to be a partner in this exciting new initiative. The work of DiverseED very much aligns with the work of our Research and Practice Centre's, Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality (CRED) and the Centre for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Education and the work we undertake around Coaching, Mentoring and Professional Learning, Mental Health in Schools, Supervision and Story Makers. We look forward to collaborating with colleagues from DiverseED, Lyfta and teaglo to support diversity and inclusion across a range of education settings.

Find out more about Carnegie School of Education here.

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