Yesterday's #IncludeEd25 conference with The Difference was epic! Incredible to hear from experts across the education sector and people who care about young people in their communities 🤩 Jacob Lawton 🪴 Luke Mitchell Rebecca Barham Jim Butterwood David Whitaker Amy Hennell Beth

The ultimate aim of Calm Leadership… developing leaders that last! See my article below in this week’s Schools Week! 😊

Loved the email note from Independent Thinking reminding us of importance of #Kindness: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… & highlighting the great work of L30 Relational Systems David Whitaker Nina Jackson #Talk2MeMH Roy Leighton & Dr Andrew Curran Learn more: independentthinking.co.uk

A absolute Cracker of a day spent with David Whitaker and Luke Mitchell a rare sight seeing us all in the same place!! We spent the day working with Leaders from across Anglian Learning exploring the Strategic Leadership Of Behaviour… #values #culture #relationships #people

After years of dedication to the relational approach, psychological safety, staff well-being, Nurture staffing and spaces, OPAL Play, two SEN units, a coffee shop, partnership working, and parental engagement - today, it all felt worth it. Not just working, but REALLY working.

"Kindness is defined as the quality of being friendly, generous and considerate. Affection, gentleness, warmth, concern, and care are words that are associated with kindness. While kindness has a connotation of meaning someone is naive or weak, that is not the case. Being kind

A wonderful piece on Park House Phoenix Park Academy featured on BBC Look North today, showcasing the life changing opportunities they provide for young people in Grimsby. Watch it now on iPlayer. Report by ⁦Phillip Norton⁩ bbc.com/news/articles/…

Today marks 50 years since Thatcher first became Tory leader. Her legacy of privatisation, attacks on trade unions and deregulation deepened inequality, forced down pay and broke our public services. Only by finally rejecting Thatcherism will we build a better society for all.

🌶️ 'Nando's memes aside, there’s a genuine risk it could annihilate not just the current generation of school leaders but the next one too' Heads' Roundtable co-chair, Keziah Featherstone buff.ly/4hXlNnn

We risk missing “a golden opportunity to deliver fully inclusive schools through policy and practice” - important messages from co-chair Keziah Featherstone.

For clarity Ofsted. I know coloured boxes don’t feel like gradings to some but they are. They will be treated no differently and create just as much stress/anxiety and we know you know that but don’t care.

Time for an honesty about what inclusion costs- Inclusion matters – empty words or funding to match? | Essex Calling feel free to retweet ⁦🇬🇧 TeacherToolkit.co.uk⁩ ⁦Tom Sherrington⁩ ⁦Talk for Teaching.😀⁩ passmorespedagogy.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/inc…

Just 20 days to go until The Next Decade. Chief Education Officer for Wellspring Academy Trust and author of 'The Kindness Principle', David Whitaker is just one of the experts who will be delivering a keynote on the day. We can't wait to see you there! #TheNextDecadeUK

Fantastic newly created position within our SEMH special school in Huddersfield: mynewterm.com/jobs/143227/ED… Literacy Lead - truly fantastic opportunity to make a difference in this position #teaching #huddersfield

NEW: My latest The i Paper column on why alarmist, exaggerated warnings from private schools about Labour’s VAT policy were given so much attention - and what it says about Britain. Read here👇

Thanks Ben Kentish for calling out the self interested reporting of this previously

Once more with feeling. Being inclusive and maintaining good behaviour is more expensive for the schools doing it but saves our country a great deal more. Day 5 of hoping Department for Education acknowledge the truth of this

Just wow! I’m in absolute awe. What a truly incredible day The Next Decade Conference. A huge thank you to all our guest speakers, attendees and organisers who made this event extraordinary. The energy and passion was incredible. And this is just the beginning …

David Whitaker

Calling any Secondary Schools using Arbor For Behaviour 👋 Are you a secondary school in the UK absolutely smashing behaviour management with Arbor? We're on the lookout for schools who are really maximising Arbor's features to create a positive and effective behaviour culture