Daniel Sobel is the founder and CEO of Inclusion Expert and leads a team working with over 10,000 schools, offering training and support to professionals working to make education more inclusive. Daniel is the best selling author of ‘Narrowing the Attainment Gap: A Handbook for Schools’ as well as 'Leading on Pastoral Care' and 'The Inclusive Classroom’. He has worked with regional and national governments, the UN, UNESCO, schools and organizations across the UK and internationally to achieve outstanding inclusion.
In this episode, we cover:
- How schools and attitudes towards inclusion have changed over the last 20 years
- Why we need to ditch labels in order to have a truly inclusive classroom
- Emotional intelligence as the biggest barrier to creating inclusion schools
- The culture shift from the sage on the stage to facilitating learning
- School’s purpose in society, aside from a place of learning
- Investing in education to create a better and more equitable society
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