OVERVIEW

#NA2020Equity

The Northern Alliance and Education Scotland have collaborated to create a menu of online workshops, presentations and resources that will be shared throughout the week. Some of the highlights are outlined below with many more to be added on the day.


MON 28th SEPTEMBER - FRI 2nd OCTOBER 2020

MONDAY

Understanding Poverty & Equity across the Northern Alliance

  • Opening Speech- Gayle Gorman, Chief Executive & Chief Inspector of Education Scotland

  • The Nature & Impact of Poverty- Scott Calder & Jo Kirby, Northern Alliance

  • Unconscious Bias - Jen Hodson, Education Scotland

  • Five Hidden Poverties of and in Scottish School Education - Prof. John McKendrick, Glasgow Caledonian University

TUESDAY

The National Picture, Pupil Equity Funding & The Scottish Attainment Challenge

  • Closing the Gap: What does this mean to you?, The National Picture, Scottish Government

  • Learning from Data - Alison Thomson & Grant Murray, Education Scotland and Northern Alliance

  • Sharing research about improving literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing for pupils affected by poverty. - Scottish Council of Deans of Education

  • Wee Blether - Poverty and what schools do to mitigate its impact on learning.

  • What does equity mean in your classroom? - Kylie Watson and Sheila Rae, Education Scotland

  • Pupil Equity Fund - Examples from across the Northern Alliance

WEDNESDAY

Participation and Engagement

  • Health and Wellbeing: How do we mitigate the effects from poverty?: Roslyn Redpath & Rhonda Simpson, Principal Educational Psychologists, Argyll & Bute and Shetland Islands

  • The Cost of Lockdown and the Cost of the School Day Toolkit - Sara Spencer, Child Poverty Action Group Scotland

  • Re-imagining the skills agenda and DYW post Covid-19 - Laurence Findlay, Director of Education and Children's Services, Aberdeenshire Council

  • e:Sgoil: Digital Equity, Marc McWhirter and Steven Graham, e-Sgoil DHTs

  • Unlocking STEM in CLD - A professional learning tool for staff

THURSDAY

Collaboration for Equity

  • Meet the Children's Commissioner and Learn about your Rights - Bruce Adamson - Sessions for Pupils.

  • Wee Blether for Young People: How does poverty affect children and young people?, Maxine Jolly and Jen Hodson

  • Wee Blether: How is multi-agency working adding value for you?- Sarah Elliot, Education Scotland; Collaborating with Youth Services - Marielle Bruce, Youthlink Scotland

  • Outside Now! Mark Irwin, Education Scotland

  • Excellence through Collaboration, Nicola Sykes, CLD Senior Education Officer, Education Scotland

  • Equity & Early Years - Ruth Reid, Northern Alliance

  • Leadership for Equity: Using logic models to support implementation - Olwen Fraser, Northern Alliance

  • Languages: Ensuring everone gets a fair chance - Sylvia Georgin, Northern Alliance

  • Food insecurity & Mental Health- Top tips for school dining rooms - Jayne Jones, ASSIST FM

  • DYW & Responding to the Pandemic - Maxine Garson, Moray Council

FRIDAY

Moving Forwards

  • Pledges for our children - What do we commit to?

  • What do we mean by equity in the Maths Classroom? - Andy Thompson, Andy Brown and Iona Coutts

  • "Our Voice" for Primary and Secondary pupils, What do they ACTUALLY need? - Jo Kirby, Northern Alliance

  • Data for Improvement - Working with EOs and QIOs; Kathleen Johnston & Scott Calder, Northern Alliance

  • Attainment advisors holding discussions in each local authority

  • Thinking Ahead - Helen Budge, Regional Improvement Collaborative Lead

  • Future CPD

CLASSROOM RESOURCES

Click here to link to resources that can be used over the week.

These include:

  • UNCRC activities

  • Unconscious bias

  • Cost of the School Day activities

  • Video Clips, Sways and other tools