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Whole school approach and award schemes
Read how a whole school approach to promote gender equality and challenge stereotypes can look in practice with this is fantastic example from Education Scotland - Gender 10 Toolkit
National Education Union has comprehensive guidance on Getting started: A whole school approach to preventing sexism and sexual harassment
UK Feminista conducts research, provides training and resources, and has a national awards programme recognising and rewarding schools for taking action to combat sexism and sexual harassment. They have guidance on a whole school approach and provide consultative, intensive and long-term support to schools to apply it.Â
Focuses on coordinating a whole-school commitment to gender equality and anti-misogyny across all areas, ensuring consistent values, practices, and messaging. It involves aligning leadership, staff, students, curriculum, and culture within a shared framework. Award or accreditation schemes can guide implementation, recognise progress, and sustain long-term improvement.
Everyone's Invited conducts research (including current pilot of a 2 year primary school programme in London), provides online resources, talks and workshops on a range of topics, has resources for parents, as well as schools. EI creates bespoke packages that are tailored to the needs of the organisation - full-term programmes, resources for teacher training, or conflict resolution with certain issues between students
Lifting Limits by the Children's Society provides a whole school approach programme, as well as trainings for professionals to provide support for children, parents and carers to overcome gender stereotypes. Lifting Limits has developed an evidence-based, free curriculum, Beyond Gender Stereotypes (BGS) for ages 7-11 which schools have opportunity to join.
Equaliteach have many resources for educators through their toolkit Outside the Box: Promoting Gender Equality & Tackling Sexual Harassment in Schools. They offer guidance for each part of whole school approach as well as offering support through a fully tailored package. Â
Gender Action provide 1:1 support and networking with recognition provided through a 4-tiered school award programme for gender equity. They work with nurseries, primary and secondary schools.Â
Their resources include a Gender Action Toolkit, free online course and a large repository of resource. Â
