Drama - Curriculum Conversations

Curriculum Conversations is a self‑review tool for department teams who want to look closely at their curriculum and culture, and make thoughtful, sustainable changes over time. Rooted in the Being Luminary ecology of leadership, it treats your subject area as a living system, with all the complexity and interconnection that brings.

Each booklet guides your team through carefully crafted questions across key equity and curriculum themes. It includes prompts linked to protected characteristics such as disability, race, gender, sexuality, faith and worldview, money, class, age and intersectional experiences. There is no compliance checklist and no new set of rules; instead, you get rich questions that help you notice patterns, articulate what is working, and agree, as a team, on one or two meaningful next steps at a time.

You can use Curriculum Conversations for whole‑department curriculum reviews, to plan or refresh schemes of work, or to gather student voice in more structured ways. The tool is designed to be picked up and used in ordinary meeting time, without external facilitators, and to sit alongside your existing curriculum and school improvement frameworks.

Each Curriculum Conversations resource is a printed A4 booklet, professionally bound and designed for repeated use over several cycles of review. Schools typically purchase one printed copy per department and also receive access to a digital version of the booklet, making it easier to use across the team and in different meeting formats.

In Drama, these conversations focus on the decisions you make about texts, casting, rehearsal processes and performance opportunities. The questions help your team examine whose stories and bodies appear on stage, how rehearsal rooms and performance spaces feel for different students, and how assessment, feedback and participation patterns influence who chooses Drama at each key stage.