Student Leadership for IMPACT
SSAT are the UK’s biggest and most experienced provider of student leadership training and support for education providers, with over 30 years of experience helping settings build the capacity and capabilities of their student leaders.
Through webinars for staff facilitating your student leadership work and bespoke training for your student leaders we can help you increase the impact of your work in this crucial area. We can also help you to recognise the impact of your student leaders through our unrivalled accreditation process.
Training for your Student Leaders
Training for your Student Leaders
We can deliver expert, evidence-informed, and bespoke training for your student leaders to help build their knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to have impact in their leadership roles.
Student Recognition Scheme
Student Recognition Scheme
We can support your students in evaluating their knowledge, skills, and abilities in their leadership roles. Draw on our expertise to help authenticate and accredit their contributions.
School Recognition Scheme
School Recognition Scheme
We can support you in evaluating the effectiveness and impact of your student leadership work and plan next steps. Draw on our expertise to help authenticate and accredit your provision.
Professional Learning for Staff
Professional Learning for Staff
We can help build the expertise and professional capacity of your staff in supporting the work of student leaders so that they are better equipped to have a lasting impact.
Student Leadership Franchise
Student Leadership Franchise
We can help Trust leaders to offer a suite of support for their schools in training school leaders and those who support them, and in using our recognition schemes to quality assure this work.
Free Briefing Webinar
Free Briefing Webinar
We are inviting you to join us for a free briefing to explain the changes to our student leadership offer and showcase how our resources can help you in the vital work of building knowledge and capabilities in your setting.
Student voice and leadership matters. When educators provide the right support for student leadership, it helps children and young people have an impact on themselves, others around them, their schools, and their futures.
Based on our analysis of research into student voice and leadership, SSAT has identified six attributes of student leadership that make a difference. Effective student leadership is:
- Impactful through setting goals, achieving success, and enhancing equality
- Modelled through leading by example, taking responsibility, and showing independence
- Professional through working with others, seeing perspectives, and making decisions
- Aligned through sharing values, upholding standards, and strengthening teamwork
- Contextual through focusing on community, responding to needs, and solving problems
- Thoughtful through appreciating others, managing feedback, and thinking reflectively
Drawing from the evidence base, our work also supports adults facilitating student leadership in four dimensions:
- Conception of student leadership work through strategic intent and agreed principles
- Consideration of student leadership work through resourcing and ways of working
- Connection of student leadership work through communication with staff, peers and families
- Contribution of student leadership work through measuring impact, culture and access
All our work to support educational settings enhance student leadership impact aligns with these six attributes and four dimensions. This enables us to be responsive to your needs, and those of your student leaders.
If you would like to discuss your setting’s needs, you can book a call with our expert on student leadership, Dr Keven Bartle.
Book a call
Speak with Senior Education Lead Dr Keven Bartle to learn more about the benefits of SSAT’s student leadership programmes.
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Any questions?
Contact us or call 020 7802 2300.
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