Sample Session Topics by Track

School Leadership:

“We Tried Everything”: Leading Through Real Barriers • Making Inclusion the Culture, Not the Exception • Building Schools Around Learners, Not Labels • What Happens When Students Lead Us? • Headteachers as Inclusion Architects

SEMH (Social, Emotional, Mental Health):

The Behaviour Wasn’t the Problem: What We Learned About Trauma • Creating a Culture Where Staff and Students Can Breathe • Small Steps, Deep Healing: Personalising SEMH Support • Resilience Isn’t Just a Buzzword: Building It in Real Time • Unpacking the Quiet Crisis: Ending the Shame Around SEMH

Digital Wellbeing:

Children, Screens, and Sanity: Finding Balance in a Wired World • What Does Digital Belonging Look Like? • Designing Online Spaces That Feel Safe • Digital Boundaries: Teaching Children to Navigate Online Life • When Tech Drains Us: Tools for Protecting Mental Health

EdTech:

Technology That Includes: How to Make It Work for Everyone • When EdTech Heals: Real Stories from Real Classrooms • Designing Tools for Every Learner, Not Just the “Average” One • Giving Students the Wheel: EdTech That Empowers • How to Buy Tech Without Leaving Learners Behind

AI in Education:

Who’s Missing in the Data? Bias and Belonging in AI • How We Taught the Algorithm to See Our Students • Can AI Personalise Without Excluding? • Listening Machines: Can AI Really Hear What Matters? • Ethical AI in the Classroom: A Principal’s Dilemma

Early Years:

Inclusion Starts in the Sandpit: Why Early Years Matter Most • Tiny Hands, Big Messages: What Inclusion Looks Like in Preschool • Creating Spaces of Belonging for the Very Young • When Toddlers Teach Us About Difference • Play as a Pathway to Inclusion

Academic Research:

What We Still Don’t Know About Inclusion (But Should) • Bridging Theory and Practice: Stories from the Field • Whose Evidence Counts? Rethinking Rigor in Inclusive Research • Researching With (Not Just On) Communities • Making Intersectionality Visible in Education Studies

Assistive Technology:

Tech That Doesn’t Just Work — It Understands • Tools That Empower, Not Stigmatise • Assistive Doesn’t Mean Extra: Rethinking Integration • Co-Designing Tools With Those Who Use Them • Breaking the “Special Equipment” Stereotype

Alternative Pathways:

What Happens When We Let Students Choose the Path? • Educating Beyond the Mainstream: Stories of Success • Reaching Those Who’ve Opted Out (Or Been Pushed Out) • Reimagining Success for Non-Traditional Learners • Pathways That Actually Fit Real Lives

Inclusive Pedagogy:

Teaching Strategies That Don’t Leave Anyone Behind • What Inclusion Looks Like in Everyday Lessons • From Theory to Practice: Embedding UDL in Real Classrooms • Letting Students’ Voices Shape the Curriculum • Co-Teaching, Co-Learning: Pedagogies That Work

Specialist Practitioners:

From Labels to Learners: What We’re Doing Differently Now • Working Side-by-Side with Teachers, Not Above Them • Specialist Voices in the Staffroom: What Needs to Change • Reframing “Support”: Strengths-Based Practice • Inclusion Without Isolation: Our Role in the Classroom

Government & Policy:

From Strategy to School Gates: Making Policy Real • Where Policy Misses the Margins (and What We Can Do) • Designing Inclusion into National Curriculum Reforms • Giving Teachers Time: The Missing Piece in Policy • Scaling What Works Without Diluting It

NGO & Civil Society:

When Change Starts with the Community • Making Inclusion Work in Low-Resource Settings • Parent Groups, Local Leaders, and the Power of Proximity • How Civil Society Keeps Systems Accountable • Creating Belonging from the Bottom Up

Corporate & EdTech Partners:

Inclusion Is Good Business: Why It Matters Now • Designing Products With Empathy, Not Just Efficiency • What We Learned Co-Designing with Disabled Learners • Supporting Teachers, Not Selling to Them • The Metrics That Matter: Impact Beyond Profit

Youth & Student Voice:

What We Wish You’d Asked Us • When Students Take the Mic: Real Stories, Real Change • Young People Designing the Schools They Want • From Tokenism to Real Power: Student Voice That Shifts Culture • “We’re Not Future Leaders — We’re Leading Now”