World Book Day 2026: A Conversation with #DiverseEd Authors

On Thursday 6th March we will be holding our annual virtual World Book Day event to celebrate the educators in our diverse network who are published authors.

Join Hannah Wilson in conversation with a group of diverse authors from our network to share the books they have published.

6.00-6.20pm - Leadership Books

Dwight Weir - The INclusive Leader: Educational Leadership with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at the Centre

Nadine Bernard - Your Leadership Matters: Empowering Educators of the Global Majority and Allies

Patrick Cozier - Calm Leadership: Developing leaders that last

6.20-6.50pm - School-wide Books

Lewis Wedlock - Masculinities in Schools

Natasha Raheem and Funmilola Stewart - Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in SchoolsA Practical Guide for Creating a Culture of Belonging

Sarah Wordlaw - M is for Misogyny

Sean Harris and Katrina Morley - Tackling Poverty and Disadvantage in Schools: Understand more deeply and better address inequalities in your school

6.50-7.10pm - Classroom Books

Dr Helen Ross - Literacy Learning Journeys: An Educator’s Guide to Dyslexia, Ages 0-18

Morgan Whitfield - Gifted?: The shift to enrichment, challenge and equity

Zahara Chowdhury - Creating Belonging in the Classroom: A practical guide to having brave and difficult conversations

7.10-7.40pm - Curriculum Books

Amy Sayer - How to Build a Meaningful Mental Health Curriculum

Christopher Clyde Green, Djamila Boothman and Thishani Wijesinghe - All of Us KS5 Anthology: 24 brilliant texts to enrich your A Level and IB English curriculum

Priya Bhagrath - Creating an Anti-Racist Curriculum for Children with Special Educational Needs: Moving Beyond Saris, Samosas and Steel Drums

Shareen Wilkinson - Disciplinary literacy in primary schools: Reading, writing and speaking across the curriculum

7.40-7.55pm - Children's Books

Olly Pike - What Does LGBT+ Mean?: A Guide for Young People (and Grown-Ups)

Pamela Aculey - Buster Finds His Beat: 1 (Just Like Me)

We will have another full line up for our 2026 schedule but do get in contact with Hannah if you are a diverse educator and you have written and published a book and would like to contribute to a future event:

hannah@diverseeducators.co.uk

The Event:

Each author will share their writing journey with you - why they wrote and published their books, how they became published and what they want to disrupt in the dominant education narrative.

This event will be livestreamed from Streamyard to Youtube. Register to be sent the links for the livestream and/ or the recording.

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