Series 1: Understanding young people's lives
Series 2: Creating school belonging
Series 3: Power of belonging
Examples of TioMolina's Work
Listen to what young people and educators have to say about why belonging is so important to them today
Watch how involvement in researching for belonging generates a sense of agency, connectedness and belonging.
Newly qualified teachers describe what they have learned from their research and how this has changed their practice.
Watch DancePoet TioMolina and Professor Kathryn Riley working with young people.
Meet some of the student-researchers, reporting on their findings to an audience of school leaders and policy-makers at City Hall.
Project Team
Professor Kathryn Riley, Dr Max Coates, Dr Dina Mehmedbegovic, Rhoda Furniss, TioMolina (Cubartista) and Frank Hung (DIDA Media)
Participating Schools:
Corelli College, Elizabeth Garret Anderson School, Mulberry School, St Paul’s Way Trust School, Upton Cross Primary School, Waltham Forest Newly Qualified Teachers’ Network, led by Newport School
Schools are one of the few shared social institutions which can help create a sense of belonging- as the children form St Anthony’s demonstrate.
Agency is our ability to intervene in the world to make a difference, to have our voice heard. How can schools develop the agency of staff and young people and what does it have to do with belonging?
A school is just a building. What makes it a place is the relationships. Listen to what architect and educator Dr Sol Perez Martinez has to say.
What brings schools and communities together to become places of belonging?
DancePoet Tiomolina performs in a programme for school leaders in the Netherlands: What emotions and feelings do we carry with us as leaders?
Based on the project ‘Deptford a World of Possibilities’. Great lyrics!
My Deptford? Your Deptford?
Whose Deptford? Sharing it all – but never the crumble.
Highlights from Kathryn and Roberto’s keynote presentation at the ’International Congress on School Effectiveness and Improvement’ (ICSEI), Morocco, 2020.Plus -Voices of educators and young people from the global north and south