Education Services

Kaizen programmes help schools to build leadership capacity from the ground up. We are currently working with staff and students from more than 60 schools.

Whether you want to improve an area highlighted in your OFSTED report, or simply want to develop a more effective school environment, Kaizen can help. For information on our methodology and how our work links to key frameworks, click here.
 

What we offer:

• Community Cohesion and Engagement in Schools
• Student Leadership Programmes and Pupil Engagement
• Coaching and Consulting for Heads and Management
• Enhancing Student Behaviour and Developing Emotional and Social Competence
• Staff Coaching and Supervision
• Inset Days and Twilight Sessions

 

Examples of projects include:

• An award winning 9-month schools project in East London. Kaizen is now starting the 3^rd year of this programme which is focused on developing leadership and responsibility;

• Leadership workshops for young people at Primary and Secondary Schools, as well as Specialist Academies. We are currently working with students from more than 60 schools;
• School Council Leadership Programme in a cluster of 10 schools in Hackney for The Learning Trust;
• Training and coaching for heads, teachers, learning mentors and school support staff;
• Prefect training workshops in Secondary Schools and Specialist Academies;
• Leadership training as part of a Masters degree on behalf of Teach First;
• Coaching for heads and SMT’s;
• A programme to act as a bridge back to education for teenagers at risk of exclusion from
  school, in partnership with Young Potential East Midlands;

 

“I have worked with Kaizen for 5 years because they always deliver. Kaizen’s input into our student leadership programme is very exciting and empowering for the students. Their approach engages the students very proactively and quickly focuses them, not only on their own natural leadership talents, but also on recognising other students’ skills and respecting their input into the sessions. All the students are full of praise for all the sessions they have with Kaizen and we use them on an annual basis for each year group as they are outstanding.”

Joan Barnes, Head Teacher, The St Lawrence Academy

 
 

“I learned that everyone can be a leader including me. This course has boosted my confidence because I am shy and don’t always speak out.”

Primary School Student on a youth leadership workshop