13th Festival of Education

Sustainability is being given an ever-higher profile in schools, but school leaders are often daunted as to how to embed it when they have so many other things to worry about. I will show you how you can do this whatever your starting point and how it keys into all other aspects of school improvement as understood by inspectors and other external moderators.
Sustainability is about far more than just 'greenism'. It can permeate everything as we move into an uncertain future. This future can be positive and an improvement on the past, and I show how learning about sustainability isn't just a case of 'zooming into gloom'. This also addresses the increasing challenge of pupil anxiety in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss.
If pupils are active participants, they can use their own agency and realise that they can make a difference as individuals and within groups. Certain styles of leadership and strategies will be highlighted which help this cause.