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How you can help teach about participatory budgeting

See how you can help create a series of interactive videos to promote whole school student voice through participatory budgeting.

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Czech teachers telling us about their school councils

Here’s a few presentations from teachers telling us about their school councils.

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Newsletter 10: How do you ‘do’ student voice? Here are some of our ideas

A new book, a whole load of free resources and Greg looking lost in Ireland.

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Riots, discipline and student voice

I was involved in a short debate on BBC WM’s breakfast show this Monday. I was put up against Nick Seaton from the Campaign for Real Education, who campaigns against progressive education. Have a listen and see what you think: As with any interview like this no one gets the time they want to put [...]

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Newsletter 9: Weddings, MPs and Smart School Councils

Hello from involver – newsletter number 9 Sorry there was no newsletter last month but we got a bit distracted by Asher’s wedding. We promise it won’t happen again (at least until Greg gets married). Resource: Get a politician in to your school This free resource from the Hansard Society shows you how to get [...]

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Newsletter 8: Planning projects, factory schools and student voice good practice

April 2011 Newsltter: Including free resources, videos and articles with tips for school councils on project planning and how a school run like a factory can improve student voice.

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Project planning and evaluation videos for school councils

6 short videos to help school councils and other student voice groups through all the stages of planning, carrying out and evaluating a project.

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Student voice-o-meter is born!

Happy friday everyone, For the last few months, we’ve been working on an exciting new student voice/school council tool called the Student Voice-o-Meter. We’ve worked closely with two very talented people, Robert Johnson doing the amazing illustration, and Derek Winton pulling all the database and code stuff together. We’re extremely grateful for their help, ideas [...]

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Newsletter 3: Why bother, audit, training and fantasy football

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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involver newsletter 2: School council ideas, problems and solutions

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 …

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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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The Fun Theory

A great video. This is what school councils should be about: making things better by making them more fun.

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Slovakian adventure!

I’m back in London, via Vienna, after an amazing time in Kosice, Slovakia. It was a very inspiring and interesting three days.
Great to hear about the challenges, successes and stories of people in other countries who are broadly trying to do the same things as us in the UK. Great to meet so many motivated, passionate young people. Great to visit Slovakia for the first time – it is a beautiful country!

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Slovakia Day 2

The main event was the visit a secondary technical school in Kosice. We had a tour of the school, and the countries who are participating in the project explained their projects – and what was happening with student voice in their countries – to the students.

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