Driving sustainable and inclusive language education
In a time of educational reform and shifting policy landscapes, school leaders are uniquely placed to shape and secure the future of languages education.
Developed by ASCL and the National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE), this timely and thought-provoking conference invites school and system leaders to explore how to lead languages strategically, ensuring they thrive within inclusive, sustainable, and globally-minded curricula.
Join us to discover how language learning can be a powerful driver of equity, diversity, and student belonging.
Key themes
- Navigating policy change: stay ahead of evolving government reforms affecting languages in both primary and secondary education.
- Strategic leadership of languages: learn how leadership teams can embed languages into whole-school improvement strategies, aligning with values of inclusion, sustainability, and global citizenship.
- Building sustainable provision: understand the financial and logistical implications of different curriculum models across Key Stages 3, 4, and 5.
- Line managing language departments when you’re not a linguist: gain practical insights into line management and quality assurance for language departments when you're not a subject specialist.
- Ensuring continuity and progression: discover strategies to address learner motivation and build learner confidence and progression across key stages.
- Strengthen pupils’ oracy through language learning: examine how language education supports and enhances a school's work on oracy and communication.
- Creating a culture of language learning where all students feel inspired to learn languages, including home, heritage, and community languages, regardless of background or ability.