New Empowerment podcast series

Published 18/08/2023.  Last updated 18/08/2023

The School Empowerment Steering Group encourages collaboration and empowerment in Scottish Education.

There are eight partners identified in the work to increase empowerment – from school leaders, to learners, and from support staff to parents and carers – and now a new podcast has been launched to share some of their views on what empowerment means for them.

The first of five episodes in the The new empowerment podcast is now available on PodBean, with each additional episode published every Friday.

Gillian Hamilton, Interim Chief Executive of Education Scotland added:

“This podcast series is a really interesting listen as it explores the concept of empowerment and what it looks and feels like for different people working across our education system.

If we are to achieve the very best for learners, it is important that we keep the dialogue open about how we work collectively to build an empowered system.

What comes across in this series is that there’s more to be done to support empowerment and begins to explore that in more detail. I look forward to progressing work in this area over the next academic year.”

The first five new empowerment podcasts focus on how we currently and should empower school communities to take an active role in leading Scottish education and covers the following areas:

  1. Introduction: this introductory podcast features most of the eight contributors noted in the Empowered System jigsaw.
  2. School Leaders: Headteachers from across Scotland discuss what empowerment means to them.
  3. Scottish Government and National Organisations: in this podcast senior staff from Scottish Government, Education Scotland, ADES, GTCS and COSLA consider empowerment in the national context.
  4. Local Authorities and Regional Improvement Collaboratives: Directors of Education and Chief Education Officers from across Scotland deliberate on what empowerment means to them.
  5. Teachers and Practitioners: two primary and two secondary teachers participate in this discussion relating to empowerment.

Find out more about work to support An Empowered education system.

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New Empowerment podcast series

Published 18/08/2023.  Last updated 18/08/2023

The School Empowerment Steering Group encourages collaboration and empowerment in Scottish Education.

There are eight partners identified in the work to increase empowerment – from school leaders, to learners, and from support staff to parents and carers – and now a new podcast has been launched to share some of their views on what empowerment means for them.

The first of five episodes in the The new empowerment podcast is now available on PodBean, with each additional episode published every Friday.

Gillian Hamilton, Interim Chief Executive of Education Scotland added:

“This podcast series is a really interesting listen as it explores the concept of empowerment and what it looks and feels like for different people working across our education system.

If we are to achieve the very best for learners, it is important that we keep the dialogue open about how we work collectively to build an empowered system.

What comes across in this series is that there’s more to be done to support empowerment and begins to explore that in more detail. I look forward to progressing work in this area over the next academic year.”

The first five new empowerment podcasts focus on how we currently and should empower school communities to take an active role in leading Scottish education and covers the following areas:

  1. Introduction: this introductory podcast features most of the eight contributors noted in the Empowered System jigsaw.
  2. School Leaders: Headteachers from across Scotland discuss what empowerment means to them.
  3. Scottish Government and National Organisations: in this podcast senior staff from Scottish Government, Education Scotland, ADES, GTCS and COSLA consider empowerment in the national context.
  4. Local Authorities and Regional Improvement Collaboratives: Directors of Education and Chief Education Officers from across Scotland deliberate on what empowerment means to them.
  5. Teachers and Practitioners: two primary and two secondary teachers participate in this discussion relating to empowerment.

Find out more about work to support An Empowered education system.

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