SARAH SELEZNYOV, DIRECTOR, LONDON SOUTH TEACHING SCHOOL ALLIANCE, UK
For the last three years, London South Teaching School Alliance has been running a professional development programme for ethnic minority teachers, to help support them into leadership roles in London schools. Thanks to funding from the Equalities and Diversities Fund and now the Greater London Authority, the Stepping into Leadership programme has so far supported 64 emerging leaders from ethnic minority backgrounds to develop the confidence and skills to progress into leadership roles. The programme was developed in response to the low representation of ethnic minority staff at senior leadership level in London schools. When I arrived in Southwark and attended my first headteacher meeting, I was surprised to see a sea of white faces: around 45 per cent of Southwark’s residents are from ethnic minority backgrounds, but this diversity is not reflected in school leadership. And this holds for London more generally
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