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Education News, Events, Opportunities

SLF 2014 – call for seminar proposals now open

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The Call for Participation in the Scottish Learning Festival 2014 is now open and importantly there is a focus on employability skills – including creativity.

The festival will once again host around 100 seminars over the 2 days and you are invited to submit a proposal to be part of the programme. Deadline for receipt of submissions is 28 February. SLF 2014 will take place on Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 September in the SECC, Glasgow.

The Scottish Learning Festival 2014: raising achievement and attainment for all will focus on maximising educational outcomes through:

  • early intervention and prevention – for children, young people and adult learners in order to maximise educational outcomes
  • health and wellbeing – ranging from physical education and sport to the full  range of health and wellbeing subjects which are the responsibility of all  practitioners
  • employability skills – to secure a highly educated, well prepared and well-motivated young workforce able to compete in a global market.

Full details of the theme are available on the SLF website.

CfE, Education News, Events

Scottish Learning Festival 2013 – 25 and 26 September 2013

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http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/slf/index.asp

This year’s SLF takes place on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 September in the SECC, Glasgow. The theme is ‘Raising the Bar in Scotland – transforming lives through learning’.

Included in the programme of seminars, keynotes and discussions, are the launch of Scotland’s Creative Learning Plan, and Education Scotland’s Creativity Review Report. A number of Creative Learning Networks will be represented at local authority stands and visitors can find out about Scotland’s creative and cultural providers at the Creative Scotland stand in the Cultural Village.

Education Scotland will also be launching its Corporate Plan 2013-16. Sign up for a round-table discussion about how Education Scotland plans to work with all its partners to make changes to education in Scotland.

The full programme of keynotes and seminars, along with details of additional activities, are available on the SLF website.  Follow all the action on social media at #SLF13.

Edinburgh, Events

Thematic Network for Mentoring and Culture – Launch Event, 23 Oct, Creative Scotland

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Wednesday 23 October 2013

10am – 1:30pm

Creative Scotland Offices

Waverley Gate

Edinburgh

EH1 3EG

A free event for anyone in the cultural sector interested in or currently running mentoring programmes

You’re invited to join us at the launch event for the Thematic Network for Mentoring and Culture on 23 October. Set up by the Scottish Mentoring Network (SMN), Creative Scotland and ArtWorks Scotland, this is the first SMN event specifically for organisations working within the cultural sector.

Participants will hear about a number of current mentoring projects, as well as get the opportunity to discuss how best we can take forward a SMN Thematic Network for Culture and what guidance the cultural sector would benefit from.

Presentations on the day will come from the Scottish Mentioning Network, Scottish Book Trust and Live Music Now. Lunch will also be provided.

This is an excellent opportunity to network with other practitioners and learn about and discuss how mentoring could benefit the cultural sector and your organisation.

Places at the launch event can be reserved by contacting Sarah Rainey at the SMN:

E: sarah@scottishmentoringnetwork.co.uk

M: 0141 559 5009

If you have any suggestions for issues to discuss at the event, please also forward these on to Sarah.

Best wishes,

The ArtWorks Scotland Team
Creative Practitioners, Events

AmbITion Scotland: Digital Horizons Consultation, 24 September

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Join AmbITion Scotland to help co-design the next phase of

digital development and organisational support

We want to help you make the most of the changing digital landscape and take advantage of the opportunities to develop programme content; public engagement and revenues.

In this rapidly changing world, we’re offering a fun half day to work collaboratively with you to identify the digital development support your organisation or practice needs to thrive.

This is your opportunity to make sure that the next phase of digital development support from AmbITion Scotland addresses the needs and opportunities you predict.  We are open to all ideas & interests.  You know best what you need and what’s on your horizon for the next few years. What do you want to learn? What are you hoping to do?  How can you learn better & more efficiently from each other?

time: 1.30 – 5pm, 24 September 2013

venue:  Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Empire Rooms

who should come: people from the arts, cultural and heritage sectors who are interested in building digital capacity, confidence, creativity and capability in their organisation or practice.

Artists, Dundee, Events

ArtWorks Scotland Conference 2013

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The ArtWorks Scotland Conference website is now live.

The ArtWorks team will continue to add information to the site as the programme develops, but in the meantime you can:

We look forward to seeing you there!

All the best

The ArtWorks Scotland Team

artworksscotlandconference.com

CLN News, CPD, East Ayrshire, Events

Creative Minds Learning Network, East Ayrshire: “Naturally Creative”

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Tuesday 17th September, 4.15pm for 4.30pm, St. Joseph’s Academy, Grassyards Road, Kilmarnock, KA3 7SL

Keynote Speaker: Gordon Brown, Brain Juice

Once again the Cultural Co-ordinator Team within East Ayrshire’s Creative Minds Team has successfully secured funding from Creative Scotland and Education Scotland to continue to support our growing movement of professionals championing cultural education in our schools and communities.  This promises to be an interesting, informative and enjoyable event providing a platform to connect and collaborate with new partners, generate ideas and make things happen.  Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone you think would be interested in coming along or you feel would benefit from taking part.  All we ask is that they contact us with their details (name/designation, artist etc/establishment) so we have a handle on numbers. There will, as always, be an opportunity to connect with colleagues, teachers, artists, parents and pupils in a welcoming and friendly environment, enjoy our hospitality and a special preview of St. Joseph’s Academy Art Exhibition.

We will also launch our Creative Learning Opportunities Training Diary for 2013/14 which offers workshops, funding advice, visits and experiences to name only a few, and we invite you to book your creative learning opportunity of choice at the event.

As well as being a successful author, our keynote speaker Gordon Brown, has over 25 years experience in sales and marketing, including 14 years with Bass Brewers and as Director of Brands for the Tennents portfolio. He will share his knowledge and ideas to provoke discussion about the role and importance of creative minds in business and to fully recognise the increased value in teaching and nurturing creativity skills in schools. http://www.gordonjbrown.com/about-2

We hope you will continue to support the network in order to safeguard and shape the future of arts and cultural education in East Ayrshire.  Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any further information at this time.

Please RSVP eileen.skinner@east-ayrshire.gov.uk to confirm your attendance if you haven’t already done so through Facebook www.facebook.com/CreativeMindsLearningNetwork

Sent on behalf of Helen Duncan, Cultural Co-ordinator and Zara Smith, Dance Motivator

Creative Minds Team, East Ayrshire

East Dunbartonshire, Events, Parents

National Parent Forum of Scotland – Annual Conference on Health and Wellbeing

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The National Parent Forum of Scotland’s Annual Conference for parents/carers will be held on Saturday 5 October 2013 at Bishopbriggs Academy, East Dunbartonshire.

Theme: Health and Wellbeing – this includes everything that helps our children and young people to lead healthy, happy and fulfilling lives.

Keynote Speaker: The Scottish Government’s Minister for Children and Young People, Aileen Campbell MSP, will outline the Government’s plans for Scotland’s children and young people.

Register your interest with LindsayJane.Murray@educationscotland.gov.uk

CfE, East Ayrshire, Events

Enspire Festival of Ideas – S4 Enterprise project, St Joseph’s Academy, Kilmarnock

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‘Enspire’ is an exciting new festival taking place on 9 June run entirely by young people in St Joseph’s Academy, Kilmarnock. Inspired by the world famous TED Talks a team of S4 pupils from St. Joseph’s Academy in Kilmarnock have organised their own home-grown festival of ideas: Enspire.

Enspire<http://www.saintjosephsacademy.co.uk/enspire/> is being designed and curated by an S4 Enterprise class who have established an events business called ID Launch. They have been working towards this all year. The purpose of Enspire is simple: to harness energy, creativity and ideas to make a difference by thinking differently. The festival is based around three powerful words: reinvention, inspiration and transformation. All presentations will take as their starting point the themes of reinvention, inspiration or transformation. The festival also features bands, comedy, entertainment and great local food cooked by their pop-up restaurant.

The festival is open to anyone to attend.  Please contact St. Joseph’s Academy School Office on 01563 526144 for more information.

Edinburgh, Events, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Perth and Kinross, Teachers

UK Safer Internet Centre – E-safety briefing events

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After holding a major E-safety Live event in Edinburgh last year, the UK Safer Internet Centre is coming back to Scotland to deliver free e-safety briefings in May. The briefings are aimed at teachers and all other professionals working with children and young people, such as, social workers, early years workers, youth workers, police officers, etc.

The sessions are two hours long and have information around internet safety –  new online technologies and risks, updates on available tools and resources, latest research and developments.

Dates and venues:
14 May am – Edinburgh
14 May pm – Glasgow
15 May am – Perth
15 May pm – Fife
16 May – Inverness

For more information and to register go to www.esafetylive.com

Assessment, CPD, Events, Research

The Festival of Dangerous Ideas

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13 – 21 June 2013 at various venues across Scotland


The Festival of Dangerous Ideas aims to re-establish the importance of dangerous ideas as agents of change in education – to shift the axis of what is possible!

You might be interested in the following events:

Dangerous Assessment

This conference will address the following questions:

  • how do we assess a diverse range of evidence?
  • how do we assess creative thinking?
  • do we trust our own professional judgements?

http://events.collegedevelopmentnetwork.ac.uk/events/show/4685

Thinking Dangerously in teacher education: Walking, drawing and extending sites for learning

The University of the West of Scotland will share initial findings from its Creative Scotland funded research project which responds to the Donaldson Report, ‘Teaching Scotland’s Future’.
http://events.collegedevelopmentnetwork.ac.uk/events/show/4671

Click here for full details of The Festival of Dangerous Ideas Programme