The Difference Leaders Programme 2022 Cohort

2The Difference Leaders Programme  2021 

Registration for our latest cohort of Difference Leaders opens on Monday 8th November 2021. We will be accepting applications from teachers and senior leaders across Greater London, the South East, the North West, and Yorkshire & Humber.

Click here to sign up for one of our information evenings; an opportunity to learn in detail about the course and to hear from CEO Kiran Gill , The Difference Programme Team and to learn about the day to day role directly from a current Difference Leader.

Have you got:

• The drive for a challenge

• A commitment to social justice

• The skill to lead

• And the hunger to learn?

Then you could be a Difference Leader in 2022.

The Difference is looking for the country’s most committed, creative, and capable teachers ready to take on a new challenge as a senior leader in a pupil referral unit or alternative provision school.  Could this be you?

The Difference Leaders Programme provides sector-leading professional development, the opportunity for career progression, a network of inclusively minded peers and upskills participants to have an impact on the children who need you most.  An intensive two-year leadership development course is matched with a senior leadership post in a Good+ school for excluded pupils.

To make sure you don’t miss out on application opening and to learn more about this unique and exciting opportunity we are hosting information evenings via Zoom every Wednesday in November at 6 pm. Advanced sign-up is required to join these events.

Difference Leaders are:

• Driven by the mission to reduce school exclusion and improve life outcomes for the most vulnerable learners

• Optimistic about what children can achieve in the face of significant adversity

• Great teachers with experience of leading the practice of colleagues (in middle or senior leadership)

• Systems-thinkers, who enjoy learning and thinking creatively about how to change school systems, cultures, and practice

Difference Leaders get:

• Senior leadership position in an alternative provision school for two years

• Two years of evidence-led training in improving pupil learning, safeguarding, and wellbeing via residential (social distancing guidelines permitting), away-day training sessions, twilight seminars, and group supervision with a psychologist

• Bespoke leadership development via in-school coaching

• Network of like-minded school leaders across the country, passionate about re-thinking education for the most vulnerable

• Onwards career support for Difference Leaders to return to mainstream as senior leaders of Inclusion

Currently, only 4.3% of excluded children get a pass in English and maths. Half are unemployed straight after school and far too many enter the criminal justice system. Could you be part of changing this story?

Click here  for more information and to register for an information evening now, or come along to IncludEd  - our inclusive education conference happening on Saturday 6th November 2021 at King's Cross Academy, London. 

The Difference is committed to fair and diverse recruitment.