Rewilding Education: how ecology can be a critical lens for system change

Rewilding education: how ecology can be a critical lens for system change

Tuesday 13th February 2024, 4.30-6pm

Microsoft Teams meeting

 Book here – http://bit.ly/3Nq3tq8

Ecology is the study of organisms and how they interact with the environment around them. In post-pandemic education, we are increasingly aware of the social and professional relationships between teachers, other colleagues, pupils, leaders, parents, and authorities. Not only these but the relationships between people and the ‘natural’ and constructed learning environments of home, school, community spaces, and the outdoors. ‘Rewilding’ is a conservation term but is now entering the language of business, referring to efforts to restore an ecosystem to a state where it can more naturally evolve, and where different species can co-exist.  

In this online session, we will explore the concepts and metaphors of ecology and discuss how an understanding of complex ecosystems can help us to better manage and steer change in our own education work.  

We will hear from the host speakers as they discuss their own interactions with these ideas, coupled with different images and graphics as food for thought. Participants will have the opportunity to complete voluntary interactive tasks, engage in Q&A, and share their own ideas. 

This event may be of interest to educational leaders or those involved in Learning for Sustainability in your local authorities.

World Education Summit – Feedback Reminder

With less than two months left to access the 2023 World Education Summit Resources before the site closes to make way for WES 2024, it’s time to pack in your professional learning. Do you have in-service days coming up or staff meetings? Could you use part the WES 2023 content available to inform your presentation or add to staff discussion?

Whether you are looking at develop your school practices to embed the UNCRC and develop Rights Respecting Schools (Goves & Thom  – Enabling Young People to be the Voice of Tomorrow Today), considering learning & teaching (Hattie – Visible Learning: The Sequel) or focussing on leadership (Harris – Leading Schools in a Time of Change: What matters most and why), then there’s something here for you. Go to the SEIC WES 2023 Padlet for more suggestions and the WES 2023 Summit Central to see the full listing.

SEIC World Education Summit – Top Picks

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As you will know, as part of Education reform in Scotland, Regional Improvement Collaborative funding is to reduce over the coming year. As a result, the SEIC Board has agreed that much of the current SEIC work will be scaled back over the course of this session and within this I can confirm that the SEIC will not provide funding for colleagues to access WES 2024. To help us provide local authorities and schools with information as to the value of the WES 2023 licences, I would ask that you complete the following short survey to inform this process. The survey takes a very short time to complete but your feedback is highly valuable.

World Education Summit 2023 Feedback 

 

Borders Carers Centre – Big Hiccup Training

We are delighted to offer the return of our highly successful ‘Big Hiccup’ training.
An opportunity for Professionals to ‘walk in a carer’s shoes’ with this powerful, interactive and immersive training. Suitable for social workers, CCA’s, health or education workers. Covering your requirements and duties under the Carers Act, this training will ensure you are able to confidently support carers in your role.
This session will be run 3 times in 2024. You only need to attend one session
All dates here:
https://www.borderscarerscentre.co.uk/professionals-training.htm
Please note the Carers Centre will be closed from 2pm on Friday 22nd December, and will re-open at 9am on Friday 5th January
If you require support during this time, please call Social Work 0300 100 1800 (option 1) or ‘out of hours’ on 01896 752111

Multiply: Training Opportunity for Practitioners

I’d like to alert you to an exciting training offer delivered by Workers’ Education Association (WEA), aimed at practitioners entitled Supporting Learners’ Numeracy. I have attached details of the learning topics which will be covered in this 10-week programme.

The programme covers some fantastic and relevant topics which you may find of huge benefit to yourself and your practice, such as Maths Anxiety and Growth Mindset to name a few.

The Supporting Learners’ Numeracy workshops each last about 2 hours and are delivered with a tutor via Teams or Zoom, starting in February 2024. These will be delivered over a 10-week period. It is not a requirement to attend all sessions, but instead you can ‘drop in’ to the sessions you prefer. All course teaching and learning materials and resources will be shared via Canvas.

Please complete this form to register your interest in the training and to highlight the date which would be most suitable for you to attend. Training is free of charge, as all costs are covered by Multiply.

For more info please contact multiply@scotborders.gov.uk

Call Scotland – Resources and Professional Learning offers

Call Scotland would like to highlight their website with free resources and some specialist course options.

They are funded by Scottish government so we should all be trying to get value from their support.

https://www.callscotland.org.uk/

They have multiple courses on offer and their programme has been updated for Jan – June, now including some bite size 30 min options including:

Assistive Technologies to help autistic learners to access the curriculum

https://www.callscotland.org.uk/training/our-courses/CALL25/ at a cost of £30, designed specifically for supporting Autistic learners. It is a recorded version so it can be accessed flexibly.

They run #FreeWebinarWed and would like to remind you that PEF can be used to fund Professional learning.

Emma Sowerby

Headteacher, Inclusion and Wellbeing Service.