Planning the 2025–26 School Year for Belonging and Student Leadership

This session highlights what’s possible when students who are often overlooked are supported to lead—and introduces the tools that helped them do it.

How do we create school cultures where every student has the opportunity to lead?

This 30-minute webinar introduces a set of tools and strategies that support inclusive student leadership. You’ll hear how one teacher worked with newcomer students developing their English skills to plan community-building events—and how that experience helped shift the culture of their school.

Join us for a short, energizing session designed to inspire your end-of-year planning.

This session is ideal for:

DEIJ Leads

Student Leadership Coordinators

Advisory Teachers or Leads

Middle & High School Division Heads

Educators planning for culture, collaboration, or belonging in 2025–26
Presenters

Wendy Toole
Wendy Toole has taught high school social studies and ESOL classes for 18 years in Anchorage, Alaska, Evanston, Illinois, and Portland, Maine. She is passionate about working with newcomer students at the secondary level and advocating for an inclusive school environment that provides academic and social support for all students to succeed. Wendy will share how her students—many who had never been seen as leaders—stepped into leadership roles and helped create events that transformed their school culture.

Rachael Thrash
CEO and Co-Founder, Belong Hub
Rachael will walk through the tools and strategies that helped make this shift possible, showing how they can be used in other school contexts to support student voice, belonging, and leadership development.