We’ve found some great resources for you, created a student voice audit tool and been doing some thinking about why democracy in schools is so important.
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Lots of schools are beginning to think about training their school council, or student voice groups, for next academic year.
If you want to make your student voice READY, then get in touch! You can read more about our training here.
Hope you’re all doing well and enjoying the sun and World Cup. We’ve created some new resources and found a few things that you and your schools might find useful, so here they are …
Solutions to a number of common school council problems including giving feedback, support from colleagues and meetings that have gone flat.
Great ideas for school council projects and ways in which student voice is being used in schools across the UK.
How do you prove your school’s listening ethos?
Can you measure your school’s ethos?
Changing how you run your finances might be the answer.
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.
I attended an event around interesting new research from the GTCE (General Teaching Council for England) about how increased pupil participation improves.
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?
A session I ran for the Golden Company on leadership and creating a code of conduct.
Some cool tools from the BBC
Sep 28
It’s four great little tools for decision-making and coming up with creative ideas:
* Firing out ideas
* Making quick decisions
* Mixing up ideas
* Playing with images
Should we run a school?
Sep 16
Charities can now sponsor academies. So would it be a good idea for a consortium of pupil voice charities to do so and centre it around democracy and citizenship?
Hello all,
If you’re a teacher, we’d love to get your views on the type of pupil voice support you need in your school. Click the link below, it should just take a couple of minutes:
http://involver.org.uk/staffsurvey1
We’re in the process of creating one for young people, will blog when it’s up.
Asher’s also been working on a new [...]
Template to make the cards for ‘Making it fun: getting to know your reps.’
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweizer, French philosopher, physician and winner of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize (1875 – 1965)
It doesn’t matter who you’re teaching, training or working with, this is true; so we’ve made it central to everything we’re trying to do with involver. [...]
Social Entrepreneur Wanted!
Mar 18
MyBnk are offering a fantastic opportunity for an enterprising individual to launch a new initiative under the MyBnk umbrella, helping to create the next generation of social entrepreneurs!
MyBnk are a dynamic and award-winning charity working with young people to build the knowledge, skills and confidence to enable them to manage their money [...]
The elements of change
Feb 12
An interesting perspective on what makes change happen from Matthew Taylor:
One step at a time to saving the planet
If we want people to help save the planet we need to start giving them clearer signals and incentives. But the biggest obstacle might be the green movement itself. More
MJ
This from the Washington Post about 21st Century teaching..
from mj
By Jay Mathews
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 21, 2008; 6:17 AM
Only six weeks have passed since my last cranky diatribe about teaching what are called “21st-century skills” in our schools. I think the 21st-century skills movement is mostly a pipe dream, promoted by well-meaning people who [...]
Something we need to track? Details are here, and there is also the FutureLab conference with a useful list of contacts
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Pupils and Politics is a document from david Holmes at Derbyshire Healthy Schools which aims to change the structure of school councils across the county. The new model uses the language and structures of the English parliamentary system in an attempt to teach young people about English democracy as well as providing a workable school [...]
