Join our annual anti-racist education conference
We’re hosting our third annual anti-racist education conference, Shifting Cultures, on 20 June at the Corn Exchange.
The conference aims to bring together educators and inspire them to create anti-racist and intersectional learning environments. It is an engaging and exciting opportunity for everyone involved in education in Sussex to share best practice and develop resources.
This year’s Shifting Cultures conference will focus on diversifying the curriculum and how teachers and school staff can make early years, primary, secondary, and post-16 education settings more inclusive.
Book now
Two free tickets are available per Brighton & Hove City Council maintained school for the Shifting Cultures conference. Other education settings and additional tickets can be purchased for £50.
Brighton & Hove City Council maintained schools can book for this year’s Shifting Cultures via BEEM, while additional ticket purchases and external bookings can be made online.
Anti-racist education strategy
In 2021 we launched our anti-racist education strategy to address issues of racism within education in Brighton & Hove.
The anti-racist education strategy covers 7 areas where we aim to nurture change:
- Training for leaders, staff and governors
- Black and Racially Minoritised child, pupil, parent and carer support and amplified voice
- Anti-racist leadership, evidence gathering and strategy
- Racial literacy for children and pupils
- Diversifying and decolonising the curriculum
- Environment, culture, values and policies
- Black and Racially Minoritised staff and governor progression, retention and voice
We have 2 anti-racist education advisors who coordinate and lead a team of teachers across the city to put the anti-racist education strategy into practice.
Now in its 4th year, the strategy has encouraged a deeper, more nuanced understanding of racism in education and the impact and legacies of empire and colonialism.
Supportive learning communities
Councillor Emma Daniel, Cabinet member for Children, Families and Youth Services, said: “We need strong, supportive learning communities that reflect the diversity of Brighton & Hove’s young people to ensure our schools are truly inclusive environments.
“Our anti-racist education strategy enables educators to feel empowered, skilled and supported to engage in nuanced conversations about racism with young people, while understanding the complexities of our diverse interwoven histories.
“Our third annual Shifting Cultures conference will create an engaging and uplifting space for educators to continue learning in an area that can be uncomfortable and unfamiliar, for the sake of our children.”
