Building Racial Literacy

Our Building Racial Literacy programme is hosting 3 upcoming BRL+ webinars which are open to all educators and education leaders in Scotland. We would appreciate your help in sharing these among your networks. To help with this we have attached a pdf which has the Eventbrite registrations hyperlinked, and also QR codes so the poster can be printed and hung on a bulletin board.

BRL+ is a suite of standalone sessions from the Building Racial Literacy Programme Building Racial Literacy | Programmes | Professional learning programmes, webinars and events | Professional Learning | Education Scotland team. They are for all educators to learn more about racism and other experiences of inequalities, and how they manifest in education.

The upcoming webinars are as follows:

Tuesday 11th February, 4pm-5.30pm

Angela Saini – Keynote and Q&A

Tuesday 11th March, 4pm-5.30pm

Dr Neil Spiers – Reflecting on the Effects of Poverty in and out of the Classroom

Wednesday 26th March, 4pm-5.30pm

Jeffrey Boakye – Race, Gender and Power in Education

We request that everyone registering to attend an online event via Eventbrite take a moment to review our Online Code of Conduct.

Climate Ready Classrooms

Climate Ready Classrooms – Inspire Learning Live Lesson Programme – Supporting Schools with Learning for Sustainability experiences and British Science Week – Calling all Primary 6 pupils and their teachers.

Climate ready classrooms for Primary Schools is a series of workshops and activities, delivered by Keep Scotland Beautiful and ScotDec. It is delivered to the whole of the Scottish Borders at the same time via Teams. By taking part pupils will gain an understanding of the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis and take action to address these issues in their own way. Aimed at Primary 6 (but composite classes can take part too) The series of three workshops are on Wednesday 26th February, 5th March and 12th March (9.30am-10.00am). Teacher information session Monday 24th February 2.00pm – 3.20pm (during in-service day). Please nominate one or more teachers who will be joining from your school/s and enter their information into this form. They will be sent further information and asked to save the dates. Nominate HERE Any questions please email Helen.orde@scotborders.gov.uk     https://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/climate-ready-classrooms/

Progressive Masculinity – promoting positive behaviours and attitudes among male students

When – 13th May 9.30am-11.45am

Venue – Inspire Building, Tweedbank

A practical session which moves through the three following questions:

  • What are the prevalent views of masculinity amongst many of our young people?
  • What socio-cultural factors are shaping these views?
  • What evidence-based strategies can we employ to challenge regressive, dominance-based models of masculinity and promote a healthier, more aspirational understanding of what it can mean to ‘be a man’ in today’s world.

The training empowers staff to approach topics often considered sensitive and taboo within the male world (mental health, the impact of pornography, online influencers etc) but also helps to bring back the joy of masculinity and the potential of our gender to counter the overwhelmingly negative social narrative around masculinity.

Target Audience – All Pastoral Staff

 

Nurturing Nature: Family Learning in Local Greenspace

Learning through Landscapes are now offering a fully funded online Nurturing Nature: Family Learning in Local Greenspace course to support any practitioners  to learn more about the approach.

Nurturing Nature is a play project that uses outdoor free play in areas of local greenspace as an early intervention strategy to support the wellbeing of pre-school children.

Nurturing Nature – Family Learning in Local Greenspace

Early Career Teachers – Coffee and Catch-up Sessions

Towards the end of last term, Early Career Teachers (ECTs) were given the opportunity to get together in their clusters at our new ‘Coffee and Catch-up’ sessions. Lots of rich discussion took place and valuable feedback was received regarding current support ECTs are receiving.

 

This feedback has proved to be incredibly helpful in terms of understanding and recognising the positive support some ECTs are receiving as well as highlighting areas we can improve for the future.

early phase

We look forward to having more ‘Coffee and Catch-up’ sessions before the Easter break and would welcome all ECTs. Please keep a look out for the next ECT flyer in the CLPL.

Webinar with Jeffrey Boakye: Race, Gender, and Power in Education

Click here for more information: Webinar with Jeffrey Boakye: Race, Gender, and Power in Education Tickets, Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 16:00 | Eventbrite

Join us for an engaging online webinar with educator, author, and broadcaster Jeffrey Boakye, as he explores the intersection of race, gender, and power in education. Drawing from his acclaimed books, including Black, Listed and I Heard What You Said, Jeffrey will discuss how identity and systemic bias influence the classroom experience for both students and teachers, offering vital insights for building more inclusive educational environments.

This session is run by Education Scotland for educators and education professionals seeking to understand the nuanced dynamics of race and gender. It is part of a series of Building Racial Literacy+ and Leadership+ webinars. The talk will be followed by a live Q&A session, offering educators a unique opportunity to engage directly with Jeffrey’s work and insights.

Please note that there is a code of conduct for participants joining this session.

Target Audience – Please be aware that the target audience for this event is for professionals within the Education Sector in Scotland. To register, please enter either a school/establishment/local authority or Glow email address. If you work in Scottish education and would like to attend but do not have a glow or work email address, please email esevents@educationscotland.gov.scot with the name of your setting or service, to request a place. Thank you for your understanding.

Ticket Allocation – It is not possible to transfer your booking to anyone else. If you are unable to attend, please cancel your booking to free up a space for another participant. Please remember that for security purposes it is very important that you do not share event information with anyone else to provide them access to this event.

Joining Instructions – Joining instructions will be sent out 48 hours before the event. Attendees are advised to double check they received a confirmation email from Eventbrite to the email address they registered with as this may result in not receiving these instructions and could obstruct you from attending the event. Please contact us if you have still not receive joining instructions by one hour before then event time. We would advise you to check your junk files for emails about the event.

Request for advance information – If you have specific accessibility requirements (e.g. you need slides/more information to be sent to you in advance or need breaks at specific intervals) we would welcome more information about this in advance. Whilst it is your choice to disclose this information, doing so will help us to better understand your needs and plan how to best support your engagement. Our aim is to make appropriate adjustments to our programme delivery to ensure the best possible experience for our delegates.