EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY Strategies for network development

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EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITYStrategies for
network development

• Bottom up meets top down

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Partnership and communication
NW RA forum
DEC net-works
Curriculum
Healthy schools
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Using the 8 Doorways for ideas about
sustainability -with each network participant
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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

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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 childrens concerns
• Extended services and Clubs can link in expertise
  from the neighbourhood
• Governors can follow or drive change
• Parents may be a hidden resource

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Curriculum, Campus and Community. Who is in the
design team?
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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?

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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

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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