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Cameron’s experience of being an intern at involver and the Smart School Councils Community; why being an intern at a small organisation can be so rewarding.
How and why Welbourne Primary School in Haringey involved the school council in appointing their headteacher.
Sugatra Mitra’s SOLE project is an exciting one for learning in all kinds of ways, here’s how you could use it for student voice.
That Citizenship stays in the National Curriculum is very important, but it needs to see that active citizenship is far more than volunteering.
See how you can help create a series of interactive videos to promote whole school student voice through participatory budgeting.
Tips for chairing meetings
Jan 25
A list of tips for anyone running a meeting. Something I came up with for the co-chairs of Haringey Youth Council.
Greg and I weren’t expecting that we could see a better school council meeting than those we’d already seen in the Czech Republic, but the last school we visited on our tour was the most impressive of the lot.
Involver Internship
Jan 10
Hi, I’m Cameron. Currently interning here at Involver. This is a little info about myself, Involver and what I’ll be doing here over the coming weeks.
The school council in Dobronin explain what they have done and how they work.
Some great posters on techniques used to incorrectly argue a point, and a visit from the Czech Santa Claus and his assistants.
Some tips from Brno on how to make your school council meetings effective.
A great school council meeting from Krnow in the Czech Republic with games, action and decision-making.
We’re visiting school councils right across the Czech Republic this week, we’ll be updating the blog daily to let you know how student voice works here.
Microsoft is sponsoring places on this online course for teachers.
A template that gives your class representatives the confidence to feedback to their class and a structure for bringing in new ideas and opinions.
A huge list of student voice ideas and projects provided by teachers and headteachers at a course involver ran for ASCL in October 2012.
We’re currently evaluating a project called Our Say Our Way and we have two offers for you in return for helping us (and you don’t even have to know what it is to get them).
A process, lessons plans, worksheets and ideas for how to make your school council election successful, effective and inclusive.
Schools should humiliate kids more
Nov 7
Posted by Asher in involver blog | 3 Comments
When people say they want more competition in schools what do they really mean? Are there really schools that don’t celebrate success? Or is this just half of it?
Tags: comment, competition, General education news