Having ERO inform you of an upcoming visit is often a time of high anxiety for professional leaders and teachers. This is understandable, as a review is a potentially high-stakes event. This webinar aims to provide leaders and teachers with direction and guidance for making your review a positive and rewarding experience. Experienced professional leaders who have been successful in achieving excellent results in their 2021 ERO reviews will share their stories and insights into their centres’ successes. This facilitated discussion will help you to identify key actions that you may need to take to put your service in the best position possible to achieve excellence in your own review.

Culture plays a central role in learners learning and in teachers’ teaching (whether we are aware of it or not). As teachers, we have the responsibility to cater for all children in ways that acknowledge and enhance their cultures, languages and identities. To do this effectively we must become increasingly culturally competent. Cultural competence is defined as “the ability of a person to effectively interact, work, and develop meaningful relationships with people of various cultural backgrounds” (de Guzman et al., 2016). This webinar will highlight some of the key attitudes and actions we must develop to be culturally competent. These include recognizing the effects our own cultural beliefs and biases have on our teaching, learning about other cultures in deep and meaningful ways and being able to walk in the shoes of those from cultures different to our own. This webinar builds on learning in our other recorded webinar "Unteach Racism and other biases."