The Difference Leaders Programme

The Difference 

Registration for our latest cohort of Difference Leaders  is now open. The Difference is now working across Hampshire to find the best teachers, middle leaders and early career senior leaders to join our Difference Leaders Programme.

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 2021.

The Difference is looking for the country’s most committed, creative, and capable teachers.

We want to support these teachers to become the inclusive headteachers of 2025 through our three-year career programme.  

Are you ready to take on a two-year challenge as a senior leader in a pupil referral unit or alternative provision school?   Want career development that could see you return to mainstream senior leadership, to change the school exclusion story for the most vulnerable?  

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 will be hosting an information evening on Wednesday 9th December. 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

A National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL)

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 GCSE 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 the information evening now.

The Difference is committed to fair and diverse recruitment - recognised by organisations like Stonewall, BAMEED and WomenEd, (as seen in this BAMEED webinar).  If this advert chimes with your values, experience and potential, don’t rule yourself out - rule yourself in.