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Sustainable Education Networking: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Strategies

Explore innovative approaches to creating sustainable education networks, incorporating partnerships, communication, curriculum, and healthy school initiatives. Learn how to implement effective sustainability strategies by engaging various stakeholders and fostering collaboration in education for sustainability. Discover the importance of a whole-school approach and the role of different players in advancing sustainability in education.

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Sustainable Education Networking: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Strategies

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  1. EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITYStrategies for network development Bottom up meets top down

  2. Partnership and communication NW RA forum DEC net-works Curriculum Healthy schools

  3. Using the 8 Doorways for ideas about sustainability -with each network participant

  4. 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

  5. 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

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

  7. 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?

  8. 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

  9. 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

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