• Delivering an ambitious education recovery plan that allows children to work, play and thrive together
• Launching the most ambitious school improvement plan in a decade
• Ensuring every child leaves school job-ready and life-ready

• A session setting out the vision for world class teacher development
• An update on progress in implementing this and the support available to teachers and leaders

In this session we will explore how diverse human stories from around the world provide a powerful and captivating way for students to experience human diversity, and for educators to inspire children and nurture the vital skills and values they will need to thrive in our changing world.

We will explore:

The changing face of the future of work
The importance of introducing diverse narrative and perspectives to students
Academic research on the impact of human stories on learners
The role emotions play in deep learning

Inputs from teachers and students from primary and secondary schools

Meaningful impact with as little as 20 minutes a week to get started

• Using the Professionals Online Safety Helpline to get advice from online safety experts to address concerns and answer questions
• Enabling victims and witnesses of harmful content online to report it via the UK Safer Internet Centre website
• Using the anonymous reporting service ‘Whisper’ that the school community can access via a reporting form or SMS
• Offering children, young people and parents advice and strategies to support the issues resulting from sexting incidents

In this session we will learn from Edurio's research on staff wellbeing and gain practical strategies to developing a culture that puts staff wellbeing at the core of your school or trust. You will learn:

• The key principles of effective staff engagement
• The strongest drivers of staff retention in a school
• Key lessons on the role of the school trust in reaching their staff
• The differing experiences for staff of various backgrounds

Exploring the role of gamification in learning and how it can be a big benefit to mental health and wellbeing.

In this session, you will:

• Consider the current challenges with classroom engagement
• Think about how children may experience success in their achievements
• Understand how gamification can enable all children to succeed.

Discover how to make digital learning more accessible and accurately measure student engagement with ClassLink.

In this session, you will learn:

• how to provide students with one consistent home base to access all their digital resources—using just one password and username
• how to avoid losing instruction time to forgotten passwords and usernames
• how to use detailed analytics to monitor and assess student engagement, guide experiences

Over 16 million students and staff in more than 2,000 school systems use ClassLink to provide exceptional digital learning.

• The positive effects of moving while learning including research showing improved concentration, memory retention and engagement with lessons
• How active lessons throughout the school day can be a great way to build more exercise in without adding to teacher workload
• Practical examples of how teachers can weave activity into their lessons so children are not sitting at their desks all day

Andy Mellor, former NAHT National President (2018- 2019) and the strategic lead for The Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools, on the challenges school leadership teams face and why it’s time for a new approach for mental health in schools.

• Are there any patterns across the myriad of studies done to look at school closure attainment gaps for English children?
• To what extent has the disadvantage gap widened and how best to close it?
• How well aligned is the government’s recovery plan with the attainment data?
• How useful is all this recovery data to practitioners?

• An introduction to the National Audit Office
• The Department for Education’s spending
• Key findings from two recent value for money reports on school funding and finances
• Key challenges in the financial audit of school funding 

Giving staff support on student behaviour is one of most effective ways to improve academic achievement, but what does that look like? Should it be lead by policy and systems, or do staff need personalised coaching? Tes editor Jon Severs speaks to two educators to find out.

• Understand how the pandemic has impacted the attainment gap, and how some schools have tried to minimise it
• Learn how to best work with teaching staff to identify pastoral, pedagogical and intervention methods to support low-attainment pupils
• Learn how to put together a future-proof intervention strategy focused on boosting the progress of disadvantaged students

• Understanding the opportunities to improve the impact of education data at school level
• Moving from a progress focus to an action focus
• Building pictures over time to target support
• Streamlining and maximising the impact of data collection and analysis

• Promoting diversity and inclusion in school teams and development
• Developing strong practices for staff team management in primary and secondary settings
• Fostering positive leadership practices to work with pupils and the wider community
• Supporting individuals with special educational needs