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EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY Strategies for network development. Bottom up meets top down. Partnership and communication. NW RA forum. DEC net-works. Curriculum. Healthy schools. Using the 8 Doorways for ideas about sustainability -with each network participant. Strategy for ESD Networks.
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EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITYStrategies for network development Bottom up meets top down
Partnership and communication NW RA forum DEC net-works Curriculum Healthy schools
Using the 8 Doorways for ideas about sustainability -with each network participant
Strategy for ESD Networks • Drawing on existing organisations, their knowledge and skills – NGOs + LA services • Visiting schools, talking to lots of staff and children – catching ideas and good practice • Examining the wider practical scope of ESD with Bursars, governors, school travel planners • Bringing different players together for unique opportunities for learning
Recognising what is meant by A Whole School Approach • Internal networks • Influence and status not necessarily the same • Eco Committee / School Council can drive change through children’s concerns • Extended services and Clubs can link in expertise from the neighbourhood • Governors can follow or drive change • Parents may be a hidden resource
Curriculum, Campus and Community. Who is in the design team?
Building schools for the future • Commissioning sustainable buildings and services for a carbon neutral future – a laboratory for learning..... • Do the networks for learning include the contractors, architects, site staff, parents, pupils? • Transport to school – how do the plans encourage low carbon solutions – who is included in the discussion? What are the links to health and sport?
Curriculum forums • School improvement strategic links – attainment measures needed • Narrow curriculum definitions hamper ESD • Encourage whole school approaches to ESD • OfSTED ask for Sustainability Strategy in SEF, but inspections may focus on SATs in distinct subjects • Local Authority departments can link policy and implementation across to CYPS delivery
Just ticking the policy boxes?! • Avoid reduction of adventurous curriculum initiatives to reactive compliance with short term goals? • Long term life skills and risk management assessment skills require broad and practical education – like mint, it can be everywhere... • Climate change can be a curriculum opportunity – adaptation and mitigation – global citizenship and care