Ensuring Student Leadership has IMPACT in your setting
Are you looking to 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?

Start date
Wednesday 3 June 2026
15.30 - 17.30

Format
Two-hour live webinar following a pre-released video seminar

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Ensuring Student Leadership has IMPACT in your setting
Wednesday 3 June 2026
The importance of adult support for student leadership cannot be overestimated.
Coffey & Lavery, 2023
Our Ensuring Student Leadership has IMPACT in your setting webinar focuses on the four key ways in which you can provide the support that empowers your student leadership to flourish in your school.
- Conception: Strategic intent and key principles
- Consideration: Resourcing and ways of working
- Connection: Communication with staff and other stakeholders
- Contribution: Culture and access, and measuring impact
Key benefits for delegates
- Find out about recent research into student leadership and what this means for school provision
- Learn about effective student leadership case studies from schools where it is having real impact
- Reflect on provision in your setting against eight key criteria for supporting student leadership
- Collaborate with others in identifying next steps to help enhance student leadership in your setting
- Leave with quick wins to help enhance inclusion, and personal development and wellbeing
This webinar comes in two parts:
- A pre-release video outlining the history of student leadership research and practice and how this informs our Student Leadership for IMPACT model’.
- A two-hour webinar to explore how leaders can use our Student Leadership for IMPACT model to enhance your student leadership provision in your setting.
Who it’s for
This webinar is ideal for staff working in primary, secondary, and/or special schools who are currently involved in, or interested in developing and delivering, student leadership initiatives.
SSAT have been providing professional learning for school staff responsible for enhancing the work and impact of student leaders for decades. Our expertise is rooted in our commitment to sharing evidence-informed approaches and strategies for empowering student leadership.
The primary focus of our professional development for school staff is in helping them to equip students with knowledge, skills and abilities in 18 key areas, shown in the infographic below.
Student leadership expert
Dr Keven Bartle, Senior Education Lead, SSAT

Keven has been a teacher for almost three decades and was headteacher at a richly diverse secondary school in London for nine years. Through his career, Keven has been committed to the power of education for social justice and transformation, working in schools where staff make a difference to the lives of children, families and communities.
View our entire range of student leadership programmes: Student Leadership for IMPACT
Date and location
Launch date
Wednesday 3 June 2026
15.30 – 17.30
Online
Making Student Leadership Effective Practical Guide
Learn more about student leadership in schools and assess your current practice with this practical guide.
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