Time for Inclusive Education (TIE) is a Scottish education charity working to address homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia with an educational approach. They provide professional learning for teachers, workshops for learners, and teaching resources.

Beginning as the TIE Campaign, a grassroots group, the founders built and led the movement that saw Scotland become the first country in the world to commit to embedding LGBT Inclusive Education throughout the curriculum. Now, as an educational charity, TIE continues to work with schools, local authorities, and national partners to make this commitment a reality.

TIE delivered the session live on 11th November 2025. Both Jordan and Liam talked about their personal experiences of homophobia- Jordan as a gay teenager’s experience of school, and Liam as a father of a young daughter. They went on to talk about the importance of leadership in education settings to ensuring young people’s safety and wellbeing.

Slides from the webinar

LGBT Inclusive Education - The National Approach (2025) - Session Handout (PDF)

These contain a comprehensive list of supporting resources.

Podcast

YouTube: Learning Conversations video

Short video

YouTube: National Approach to LGBT Inclusive Education

National framework

LGBT Inclusive Education resources for the National Approach to LGBT Inclusive Education in Scotland

You can use the podcast or short video to open a dialogue with a group of colleagues about LGBT-inclusive approaches in your setting. This could connect to work already ongoing, or planned, about LGBT inclusion; be clear on your purpose in sharing the podcast or video. What do you want to achieve by showing it and how will you agree actions, for example?

Before sharing the resources with others as part of their professional learning, watch or listen yourself to ensure you know the key messages. You might also want wish to familiarise yourself with some of the additional resources listed below and perhaps pick out one or two that are useful to signpost.

It is important to consider how best to ensure a safe space for sharing and reflecting on the issues covered in the video. You should agree ways of working with the group beforehand so everyone knows the behaviours that are expected, e.g., attentive listening, respectful comments, inclusive practice and language. These ‘ground rules’ should be generated by the group and recorded where they can be seen and referred to if needed.

You could use a few of the following prompts to facilitate professional dialogue in pairs or small groups, or perhaps private reflections and note making where the questions feel more personal.

• What most resonated with you from the video/podcast? Why?
• What might it mean for you and your practice?
• What conditions exist in your setting that support LGBT inclusive education?
• Is there more we could do to strengthen those conditions?
• How do we address prejudice and bullying, proactively and reactively?
• How skilled are we at creating windows and mirrors in our curriculum?
• Are we collectively supporting/setting the conditions needed for LGBT young people to thrive and succeed?
• What practices are in place to nurture belonging and empathy?

Encourage the group to identify a small number of manageable, collective actions. You might also ask the group to note down an individual action that they will commit to, that you can revisit at a later date.