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What Asher’s been Tweeting this week 2009-11-29

@DirDigEng @nickmhalliday Excellent ideas! We're actually helping school councils use Facebook for this and working on a tailored tool too. #
@DirDigEng important that we are invited in to private spaces though. Provide tools with an immediate impact (i.e. not just campaigning) #
@MattSeppings Thanks for the Wave invite, I've signed up, but not got anywhere [...]

A short toolkit for school council co-ordinators

A short toolkit covering many of the essentials anyone working with school/ student/ pupil councils will find useful. If your school council has got a bit stale this will challenge you to think about how it’s set up and help you find a better way.

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What Asher’s been Tweeting this week 2009-11-22

@nstone starting up a new organisation it's got to be Google Apps. and Twitter. On my way to Old Street. #
RT @DavidWhe: RT @WillTucker Jill Kirby on @r4today talking about why child rights are bad. What an idiot.>> we've still a long way to go! #
Good meeting with @adamdnichols at Changemakers. Questions as to whether [...]

Improving learning through enhanced participation

I attended an event around interesting new research from the GTCE (General Teaching Council for England) about how increased pupil participation improves.

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What Asher’s been Tweeting this week 2009-11-15

@hubkingscross sounds nice, will take you up on the offer tomorrow. Is there a safe place to park bikes nearby? in reply to hubkingscross #
RT @TonySearl: Student voice.Supreme idea Doc Heppell. "2010 learnover event" Book your school in. http://www.heppell.net/learnover/ #
Setting up a Co-op bank account for involver.org.uk, got to prove it won't be used for [...]

Is your school council counter-cultural?

Should school councils be about ‘improving the school’ or ‘representing the views of all pupils’. Generally the two are inter-dependent, but which one takes primacy if there is a (perceived) conflict?

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What Asher’s been Tweeting this week 2009-11-08

Very true –> RT @jluff: @kjarrett teacher voice is linked to student voice if teachers don't have voice students won't have voice #
RT @dominiccampbell: RT @TweetyHall: BBC launches new website @bbcdemlive http://bit.ly/1B9QPO #gov20 #bbcdemocracylive #bbcdemlive #
RT @UKYP: this Friday is the deadline to nominate an inspiring young person for the @UKYP & #BT Seen & [...]

New facebook group…

Hi all. Happy Monday. Just to let you know we’ve got a new facebook group. You can join here:
http://www.facebook.com/involver.org.uk

What Asher’s been Tweeting this week 2009-11-01

RT @damselhelen: Pupil voice: legislation http://bit.ly/243zKD #
RT @sparcd: We're giving the chance for a charitable organisation to get a free Sharkbyte website http://bit.ly/4aAfeV @sharkbytecouk #
Been getting busy today: coming up with ideas, project proposals and fleshing out the website and linking to Facebook #
#studentvoice at Primo Levi Secondary School in Turin, Italy. Loads going on [...]

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