Education Scotland
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About Education Scotland
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What we do
- Ensuring the impact of Scotland’s Curriculum
- Delivering the Scottish Attainment Challenge
- Developing creativity, employability and skills
- Embedding inclusion, wellbeing and equality
- Implementing the National Improvement Framework (NIF)
- Supporting Community Learning and Development
- Promoting digital learning and teaching
- Professional learning and leadership
- Advice and support to government
- Supporting Regional Improvement
- Food for Thought Education Fund 2023 - 2024
- Education Scotland Leadership Team
- Non-Executive Board Members (NEBM)
- The Education Scotland Framework
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Policies and information
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Education Policy and Legislation
- Getting It Right For Every Child
- Local authority role and duties
- Developing the education profession
- Legislation
- Better relationships, better learning, better behaviour
- Funding Follows the Child and the National Standard for Early Learning and Childcare providers: Principles and practice
- A National Response to Improving Mathematics (NRIM) in Scotland
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Education Policy and Legislation
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Planning and reporting
- Annual Programme of Scrutiny 2023 to 2024
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Programmes
- Aspiring to Middle Leadership
- Building Racial Literacy
- Connected and Collaborative Systems Leadership
- Educator Leadership Programme
- Excellence in Headship
- In Headship
- Into Headship
- Leading CLD
- Middle Leaders Leading Change
- Stepping Stones
- Apple Teacher
- Applied Growth Mindset
- Award in Leadership
- Change Leadership
- Coaching and Mentoring Professional Learning Programme
- Coaching and Reflecting
- Coaching for Success
- Curriculum Innovation and Design
- Depute Head Teacher Leadership Course
- Developing and sustaining reading for pleasure (primary)
- Digital Leadership Programme
- Do-BeMindful Foundation Programme and Resilience-Based Recovery Programme
- Early Level Collaborative Numeracy/Mathematics Project
- Edinburgh Learns: Differentiation
- Edinburgh Learns: Formative Assessment for Learning
- Edinburgh Learns: Inspiring teacher enquiry
- Edinburgh Learns: Leadership of Learning
- Edinburgh Learns: Leading a Learning Community
- Edinburgh Learns: Skills
- Educational Leadership (Stage one: Middle Leadership)
- Educational Leadership stage one: middle leadership
- Effective Mentoring
- Emotional Literacy
- Engaging Families in Children's Learning
- Enterprising Practitioner Programme (Blended Pathway)
- Environmental Education in Action
- Evaluation: Assessing the Impact of Family Engagement
- Food, STEM and Sustainability: From farm to fork
- Global Learning Partnerships
- Google for Education Teacher Centre and Certification Programs
- Guided approach to pedagogical enquiry
- Head Teacher Leadership Course
- Head Teachers Leadership Academy
- Inspirational Leadership
- Introducing School Leadership
- Introduction to Leadership Coaching
- Lead On Programme
- Leadership and Management Professional Learning Programme
- Leadership Development and Induction Programme
- Leadership in Professional Contexts
- Leading for Outdoor Learning
- Leading from the Middle
- Learning for Sustainability: Connecting Classrooms
- Making Connections through Learning for Sustainability
- Maths Through Story
- Mental health champions: developing mentally healthy classrooms
- Mental health champions: developing a school mental health strategy
- Mentors in Violence Prevention
- Microsoft Education Center and Microsoft Innovative Educator
- Microsoft K12 Education Transformation Framework
- Middle Leadership
- Middle Leadership and Management in Schools
- Numeracy Champions Collaborative in Clackmannanshire
- Osiris Teaching Intervention
- Play Pedagogy Collaborative Enquiry 2023-24
- Post Graduate Certificate in Leading Learning and Teaching
- Postgraduate Certificate in Leadership and Learning
- Principal Teacher Leadership Course
- Pupil Support Leadership Programme
- Reciprocal Reading
- Relationship Leadership
- Resilience and Wellbeing Series for Educators (Level 1)
- Safe and Empowered: Responding to a Digital Generation
- School Leader Facilitator
- Scottish Improvement Leaders Programme
- Senior Leadership Programme
- STEM Family Learning Programme
- Supporting mental health and wellbeing educational programme
- Teacher Leadership
- Understanding Social Enterprise
- VIBE for Middle Leaders: Professional Recognition in Self-Evaluation
- We:Align group coaching programme
- Youth Philanthropy Initiative
- Towards safer, braver spaces for online learning
- Scotland’s Languages Leadership Programme (SLLP)
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Professional Learning Activities (PLA)
- Action learning sets
- Adaptive leadership
- Adopting a practitioner enquiry approach to developing classroom practice
- Ag àrdachadh dòighean-obrach proifeiseanta ann an ceannardas ann am Foghlam tro Mheadhan na Gàidhlig (FMG)
- An introduction to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and supporting learners
- An introduction to intellectual disability and supporting learners
- An introduction to the United Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) - Part One
- Aspiring to middle leadership
- Becoming an anti-racist educator
- Collaborative use of data
- Understanding nurture, adverse childhood experiences and trauma
- Cost of the School Day
- Develop an inclusive approach to improvement planning
- Developing a collaborative culture
- Developing and sustaining a coaching culture
- Developing number sense
- Effective online teaching
- Effective professional learning - andragogy
- Effectively sharing practice and learning in public
- Establishing a differentiated classroom
- Excellence in Headship - Supporting the health and wellbeing of headteachers
- Exploring middle leadership
- Exploring school leadership
- Exploring system leadership
- Exploring teacher leadership
- Facilitating online professional learning
- Family learning: effective engagement strategies
- Family learning: planning and delivery
- Finding ways to wellbeing through coaching and self-empowerment
- Gender Aware middle leadership
- Gender Aware Practice – addressing gender gaps in confidence, participation and wellbeing to develop more inclusive learning and teaching
- Having hard conversations: skills, tools, and techniques
- Headteacher role in policy leadership
- Introducing Bullet Journaling
- Introduction to inclusive education for pupil support staff
- Leadership of wider achievement
- Leading a coaching culture: headteachers
- Leading a specific change project
- Leading a whole establishment enquiry approach
- Leading collaborative practitioner enquiry
- Leading cultural change to effect improvement
- Leading effective pedagogy
- Leading learning for sustainability
- Leading learning through family and community partnerships
- Leading professional review and development
- Leading the professional learning of colleagues
- LGBT inclusive education in the classroom and community
- MLLC PLA - Anti-Racist Journey
- MLLC PLA 1 - Pre-programme
- MLLC PLA 2 - The conditions and characteristics of effective Middle Leadership
- MLLC PLA 3 - Self-Awareness – Value of Emotional and Social Intelligence in Leading Change
- MLLC PLA 4 - Leadership of Change - Using Data
- MLLC PLA 5 - Leading change - Planning your change initiative - change models
- MLLC PLA 6 – Being a change leader - Learning from literature and research
- MLLC PLA 7 - Leading change - Engaging stakeholders
- National ELC Module 4 - Developing and understanding of curriculum rationale
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National ELC Module 5 – Tracking and Monitoring
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Introduction
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Part 1: Gathering the Evidence/Data: Theme 1:
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Part 1: Gathering the Evidence/Data: Theme 2:
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Part 1: Gathering the Evidence/Data: Theme 3:
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Part 2: Collating and Analysing the evidence/data: Theme1:
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Part 2: Collating and Analysing the evidence/data: Theme 2:
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Part 2: Collating and Analysing the evidence/data: Theme 3:
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Part 3: Using Evidence/Data: Theme 1:
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Part 3: Using Evidence/Data: Theme 2:
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Part 3: Using Evidence/Data: Theme 3:
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Impact step
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Introduction
- Optimising RC cluster and parish links
- Planning and evaluating professional learning
- Racial trauma
- Roles of middle leadership 1: The student-focussed role
- Roles of middle leadership 2: The administrative role
- Roles of middle leadership 3: The organisational role
- Roles of middle leadership 4: The supervisory role
- Roles of middle leadership 5: The staff development role
- Roles of middle leadership 6: The strategic role
- Roles of middle leadership 7: External Liaison Role
- Roles of middle leadership 8: Supporting Staff Wellbeing Role
- Self-evaluation for improvement in a formal leadership role
- Self-evaluation for middle leaders
- Self-evaluation for organisational improvement
- Self-evaluation for professional learning
- Self-evaluation for school and system improvement
- Self-evaluation to develop as a school or system leader
- Stepping Stones: Promoting Positive Behaviour
- Supporting bilingualism and English as an additional language
- Supporting children and young people from Armed Forces families
- Supporting children and young people through grief and loss
- Supporting collaboration between schools
- Supporting learners with additional support needs in a mainstream classroom
- Supporting learning at home
- Supporting Teacher Leadership
- Supporting the professional learning of a student or probationer teacher
- Supporting Young Carers in Education Module 1: Identifying Young Carers in Education
- Supporting Young Carers in Education Module 2: Young Carers and the Law, Their Rights, and Their Voice
- Supporting Young Carers in Education Module 3: Ways to Support Young Carers in Education
- Supporting young people to navigate their online life
- Talking about racism
- Teaching learning outdoors
- The importance of building healthy teams
- The Playboxes Method: A focussed time to play
- The United Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC): Part Two - Additional Support Needs
- The United Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC): Part Two - Early Learning and Childcare
- The United Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC): Part Two - Primary Schools
- The United Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC): Part Two - Secondary Schools
- Transformative and pedagogical leadership for school improvement
- Understanding autism and supporting learners
- Undertaking reading and research to improve practice
- Undertaking reading of research, legislation and policy
- Using coaching approaches to lead colleague development
- Using retrieval practice as a tool to improve pupils’ learning in mathematics
- Understanding ADHD and supporting learners
- Middle leadership+
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Video resource library
- Health and wellbeing
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Middle leaders
- Hard conversations - Unpacked
- Distributed Leadership and Equality
- Jennifer Abrams webinar
- International Blether – Shining a Light on Middle Leadership
- John de Nobile: Middle leadership roles and Scottish schools
- Middle Leadership Research and Self-evaluation
- Scotland Middle Leaders Team Health Workshop
- Curriculum Design: ELC and Primary Middle Leaders
- Curriculum Design: Secondary Middle leadership
- Leading from the Middle
- Middle Leadership Superpower: our impact on the learner
- Public health
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Research and enquiry
- Leading Enquiry and Professional Learning in Schools - Tri Nations Blether
- Leading a whole school practitioner enquiry approach
- Leading collaborative practitioner enquiry
- Leading practitioner enquiry
- It Starts with a Question 13th March 2020- #SWAQ20- Opening Keynote
- It Starts with a Question 13th March 2020- #SWAQ20- Closing Remarks
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International series
- International series: In conversation with Trevor MacKenzie
- International series: Empowering educators in pandemic times
- International series: Jenni Donohoo
- International series: Conversations around Leadership for Sustainability
- International series: In conversation with Dr Paul Bloomberg and Paul Martuccio
- International series: Imperfect Leadership with Steve Munby
- International series: In conversation with Peter Dewitt
- International series: Quality implementation with Jenni Donohoo and Steven Katz.
- International series: In conversation with Avis Glaze
- International series: In conversation with Dr Simon Breakspear
- International series: In conversation with Pasi Sahlberg
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Support Staff Framework
- Professional learning activities information
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Programmes
- Connect
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Programme Learning
- Aspiring to Middle Leadership 2022 to 2023
- Aspiring to Middle Leadership 2023 to 2024
- Building Racial Literacy
- Building Racial Literacy - Cohort 2
- Building Racial Literacy - Cohort 3
- Building Racial Literacy - Cohort 4
- Curriculum innovation and design
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Educators Leading Practice 2023 to 2024
- Exploring and reflecting (Part 1)
- Enquiry
- Reflecting and Sharing
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Example Programme
- Managing finance
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Health and safety
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The legal context, roles and risk assessment
- Legal responsibility and accountability
- Risk assessment and management background
- Health and safety roles - local authorities
- Health and safety roles - headteachers
- Health and safety roles - employee duties
- Health and safety roles - promoted and specialist staff
- Summary of the role of the headteacher
- Example knowledge check
- Health and safety in the school environment
- Outdoor learning and excursions
- Child protection
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The legal context, roles and risk assessment
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Into Headship (2021)
- Managing finance
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Health and safety
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The legal context, roles and risk assessment
- Legal responsibility and accountability
- Risk assessment and management background
- Health and safety roles - local authorities
- Health and safety roles - headteachers
- Health and safety roles - employee duties
- Health and safety roles - promoted and specialist staff
- Summary of the role of the headteacher
- Knowledge check
- Health and safety in the school environment
- Outdoor learning and excursions
- Child protection
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The legal context, roles and risk assessment
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Children and families
- Children's rights and Getting it Right for Every Child
- Non-discrimination and the Equality Act 2010
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Key Scottish legislation related to GIRFEC
- The Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc. Act 2000
- Education (Disability Strategies and Pupils’ Educational Records) (Scotland) Act 2002
- Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 (as amended by the Education (Additional Support for learning) (Scotland) Act 2009
- Code of Practice to support the ASL Act
- The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
- Education (Scotland) Act 2016
- Legislative framework
- Knowledge check
- Parental involvement – principles and policies
- Parental representation
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Managing people
- Relevance of employment law to education settings
- Contract of employment
- Dealing with discipline and grievance issues
- Equality and discrimination
- Leading in the Catholic sector
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Into Headship (2022)
- Managing finance
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Health and safety
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The legal context, roles and risk assessment
- Legal responsibility and accountability
- Risk assessment and management background
- Health and safety roles - local authorities
- Health and safety roles - headteachers
- Health and safety roles - employee duties
- Health and safety roles - promoted and specialist staff
- Summary of the role of the headteacher
- Knowledge check
- Health and safety in the school environment
- Outdoor learning and excursions
- Child protection
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The legal context, roles and risk assessment
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Children and families
- Children's rights and Getting it Right for Every Child
- Non-discrimination and the Equality Act 2010
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Key Scottish legislation related to GIRFEC
- The Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc. Act 2000
- Education (Disability Strategies and Pupils’ Educational Records) (Scotland) Act 2002
- Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 (as amended by the Education (Additional Support for learning) (Scotland) Act 2009
- Code of Practice to support the ASL Act
- The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
- Education (Scotland) Act 2016
- Legislative framework
- Knowledge check
- Parental involvement – principles and policies
- Parental representation
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Managing people
- Relevance of employment law to education settings
- Contract of employment
- Dealing with discipline and grievance issues
- Equality and discrimination
- Leading in the Catholic sector
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Into Headship (2023)
- Managing finance
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Health and safety
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The legal context, roles and risk assessment
- Legal responsibility and accountability
- Risk assessment and management background
- Health and safety roles - local authorities
- Health and safety roles - headteachers
- Health and safety roles - employee duties
- Health and safety roles - promoted and specialist staff
- Summary of the role of the headteacher
- Knowledge check
- Health and safety in the school environment
- Outdoor learning and excursions
- Child protection
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The legal context, roles and risk assessment
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Children and families
- Children's rights and Getting it Right for Every Child
- Non-discrimination and the Equality Act 2010
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Key Scottish legislation related to GIRFEC
- The Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc. Act 2000
- Education (Disability Strategies and Pupils’ Educational Records) (Scotland) Act 2002
- Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 (as amended by the Education (Additional Support for learning) (Scotland) Act 2009
- Code of Practice to support the ASL Act
- The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
- Education (Scotland) Act 2016
- Legislative framework
- Knowledge check
- Parental involvement – principles and policies
- Parental representation
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Managing people
- Relevance of employment law to education settings
- Contract of employment
- Dealing with discipline and grievance issues
- Equality and discrimination
- Leading in the Catholic sector
- Leadership of Professional Learning
- Making Sense of System Leadership
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Middle Leaders - Leading Change (2022)
- Pre-programme module
- Module 1
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Module 2
- Emotional intelligence
- Coaching
- Beginning the anti-racist journey
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Data
- What is data?
- What is student data?
- Data rich?
- Qualitative and quantitative data
- Data and school improvement
- Multiple sources of data
- Individual data activity
- Closing the attainment gap
- Engaging your team with data
- Using data to support a challenging conversation – third point of reference
- Data-driven dialogue template
- Leading complex change
- Reflections on Module 2
- Module 3
- Middle Leaders - Leading Change (2023/24)
- test
- Masters learning
- Endorsement of professional learning programmes
- The national model of professional learning
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Professional Learning Blog
- My experience of Aspiring to Middle Leadership
- Dear Early Careers Teacher
- Leadership prospection
- How to listen
- A Change Will Do You Good
- Young Person’s Perspective – Creating an inclusive and safe environment for everyone
- Middle Leaders Leading Change (1)
- What is the Educator Leadership Programme (ELP) really about?
- Taking the Lead with Languages
- Big Thinking Curriculum
- Back to the Future
- Middle Leadership Glue
- International Professional Development Association Conference
- Ooey gooey lusciousness of responsibility
- Looking Out for Your Wellbeing
- The ‘most important’ thing
- Empowering Education Leaders
- Breakspear’s Sonnet - Agile Leadership with Education Scotland
- What’s stopping you? Changing the workplace dynamic through coaching conversations
- Making Sense of System Leadership – better connected
- Using Digital Intentionally
- Ikea Flat Packs: a lesson in leadership
- Coaching for effective leadership
- Leading Intentionally, Teaching Deliberately
- Having hard conversations
- Teacher Leadership: The importance of teacher agency
- Collaborative Middle Leadership and Agile Leadership
- My journey on the Middle Leaders - Leading Change programme
- Middle Leadership: The Engine Room of the School
- My professional learning experience
- Lipscombe changes the narrative for Middle Leaders
- The Importance of Being Present
- Decolonising the Curriculum: Exploring Positive Narratives that Challenge Assumptions, Empower Learners and Inspire Unity
- Tell us what you think about Professional Learning and Leadership on the Education Scotland website
- Capture, Cleanse and Weave
- Supporting Professional Learning - a Business Support Overview
- A Squash and A Squeeze
- Young Leaders of Learning
- Some take aways from our Collaborative Middle Leadership and Agile School Leadership programmes
- Middle Leadership
- Scaffolding a Difficult Conversation
- 3 Leadership Lessons from the Arctic
- Building Racial Literacy
- Effective Learner Participation
- Targeting Professional Learning
- My experience of Building Racial Literacy: power, motivation, hope and positivity
- The Many Faces of Middle Leadership
- Self-care: a panacea for emotional health and wellbeing?
- The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
- A professional learning journey
- Professional Learning? It’s like riding a bike…
- Northern Alliance Right Drivers
- New Year Focus
- Guide to accessing professional learning activities
- Shining a desk lamp on middle leadership
- International Blether: shining a light on middle leadership
- Middle leadership roles in Scottish schools - a conversation with John de Nobile
- Going on a Bear Hunt!
- Global citizenship, equality and diversity – one teacher’s personal journey
- Towards anti-racism for a fairer Scotland
- Headteacher collaboration in the South West region
- Wellbeing approaches within the PLL team
- International Events: Series 1 - All About Impact
- Collaboration in the South West region
- Teacher-Led Professional Learning
- A brave and reimagined new world?
- Middle Leaders Leading Change
- Creative Bravery Festival
- ScotEd - 19th September 2020
- Headspace - The challenges of delivering professional learning for headteachers at a distance
- The hurrahs and harrumphs of remote professional learning delivery
- Now is not the time to ‘batten down the professional learning hatches’ and to wait for the storm to pass
- Reflections on Middle Leaders Leading Change
- Technology - providing new ways to connect with learners
- Professional Learning: A Regional Reflection - What to stop, start and sustain?
- TLP Reflections
- Using the national model of professional learning to plan high quality professional learning programmes
- Leadership reflections
- Technology and training - helping the 'new normal' become just normal
- Home learning - lessons learned while working from home
- Professional learning – what’s right for you right now
- What the tech! Getting to know Google Classroom
- Leading remotely: one Scottish headteacher’s perspective
- Focusing on what matters – values and wellbeing
- Gillian Hamilton reflects on the challenges of working from home
- Teaching from far, far away
- Distance Learning - Tips on navigating this strange, new ‘normal’
- Supporting online learning
- Teacher Leadership Programme case study - Furzana Ahmed
- #ProfessionalLearningSpaces
- Apply to an Education Scotland Leadership Programme
- STEP Annual Conference 2020
- Using assistive technology to support ASN pupils
- A reflection on the Teacher Development Trust Conference
- Take part in our middle leadership survey
- Teacher Leadership Workshops 2019
- Systems Thinking Leadership Programmes
- Education Scotland Programme Endorsement
- Ready for the Scottish Learning Festival 2019
- Teacher Leadership Programme - social media, blogs, and videos
- And we're off! The launch of the Teacher Leadership Programme 2019/20
- Play - pedagogy and anti-racism
- Safe spaces, inclusion, belonging and pupil empowerment
- A place for everything and everything in its place
- Leadership of professional learning
- Excellence in Headship Stretch: Embracing empowerment through collaboration
- Stop, look, and listen
- Scottish Book Trust - Learn how to build a reading culture at your school
- Research and enquiry
- Learning programmes
- Programme applications
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Resource Themes
- Children's rights
- Curriculum for Excellence (CfE)
- Creativity
- Developing the Young Workforce
- Digital Learning and Teaching
- Gaelic
- Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC)
- Improving Gender Balance and Equalities
- Inclusion Wellbeing and Equality
- Inspection and review
- Leadership
- Learning for Sustainability (LfS)
- Outdoor learning
- Parents and families
- School Improvement
- Scottish Attainment Challenge
- STEM
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Inspection and review
- Find an inspection report
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What we do and how we do it
- About inspection and review
- International links
- Inspection myths
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Standards and evaluation framework
- What do we focus on during inspection and review?
- How does inspection and review support improvement?
- What do we inspect?
- How often do we inspect?
- Evaluating quality and improvement in Scottish education
- What do we expect of staff and stakeholders?
- Comments, compliments or complaints
- How do teams conduct themselves during inspection and review?
- What is the legal basis for inspection and review?
- How we ensure our approaches to inspection and review are of a high quality?
- School consultations
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HM Chief Inspector reports and guidance
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National Thematic Inspections
- National Review: Approaches to recording and monitoring incidents of bullying in schools
- Responsive, supportive and resilient communities September 2022
- Local approaches to recovery: a thematic review
- Health and wellbeing: a thematic review
- Successful Approaches to Learning Outdoors
- Engaging families in learning – A thematic inspection of family learning
- Modern Apprenticeship reports
- Assessment within the broad general education: a thematic inspection
- Multiplying skills, adding value - Numeracy and mathematics for Scotland's learners: a thematic inspection
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Thematic reports up to and including June 2019
- Creative Place review
- Development Trust reviews
- National thematic inspection: empowerment for curriculum leadership
- National thematic inspection: empowerment for parent and pupil participation
- National thematic inspection: readiness for empowerment
- Neighbourhood review
- Thematic inspection of personal and social education (PSE) and health and wellbeing
- Thematic review
- Reports from the States of Guernsey Education Department
- School and ELC inspection findings
- Other inspection findings
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Inspection and review guidance
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School and ELC
- Approaches to inspection from August 2016
- Early learning and childcare inspections
- Primary school inspections
- Secondary school inspections
- All-through school inspections
- Arrangements for inspecting Gaelic Education
- Arrangements for inspecting special schools
- Residential special school inspections
- Independent school inspections
- Inspection of progress in improving learning, raising attainment and closing the poverty-related gap
- Health and Nutrition Inspections
- Arrangements for inspecting independent special schools and grant-aided schools
- Other sectors
- Inspection Advice Note – January 2024
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School and ELC
- Gaelic Sector
- College sector
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National Thematic Inspections
- Inspection frameworks
- Promoting improvement through sharing highly effective practice
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Parentzone Scotland
- BSL
- My child
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Curriculum in Scotland
- Curriculum areas
- About the 3-18 curriculum
- Curriculum levels
- Learning in the early years
- Broad general education
- Senior phase
- Post-16 opportunities
- Assessment and achievement
- Assessment in the Senior Phase
- Developing the Young Workforce
- National Improvement Framework
- Scottish Attainment Challenge
- Pupil Equity Funding
- National Improvement Framework Evidence Report
- An empowered system
- Young Leaders of Learning Programme - Information for Parents and Carers
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Learning at home
- Supporting children with additional support needs
- Supporting health and wellbeing
- Supporting gender balance and equality
- Supporting language learning at home
- Supporting literacy at home
- Supporting numeracy at home
- Supporting religious and moral education
- Supporting science, technologies, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at home
- Parents who do not live together
- Gaelic Medium Education: Support your child’s learning – simple tips in Gaelic and English
- Supporting study
- Learning through play
- Home learning environment
- Schemas: learning through play
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Gaelic Medium Education: Activities to support fluency development
- Sit less, walk more, speak Gaelic – early years to secondary
- Become a nature detective – early years, primary and secondary
- Heroes - early years, primary and secondary
- Favourite places - early years, primary and secondary
- Character friends - early, primary and secondary
- Songs and rhymes – sgoil àraich, primary and secondary
- Just words - early years and primary
- Create a reading den - early years and primary
- Doodle fun - early years and primary
- Making faces - early years and primary
- Let’s create a game - early years and primary
- A few of my favourite things - early years and primary
- The entertainer - early years and primary
- Looking for Gaelic texts in our homes - early years, primary and secondary
- Our community – early years, primary and secondary
- Reading is fun – early years, primary and secondary
- Planning my day to develop my fluency in Gaelic - early years to secondary
- Our community - early years to secondary
- Our community – early years, primary and secondary (2)
- Going on a bear hunt - primary
- Photo challenge - primary
- Attending events - early years, primary and secondary
- Fitness fun - primary
- Blended learning
- My school
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Additional support
- What are additional support needs?
- Identifying needs and getting support
- Specific support needs
- How schools plan support
- Supporting children with additional support needs
- The Additional Support for Learning Act
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Getting involved
- Ways of getting involved
- Parent Councils
- The school parent forum
- National Parent Forum of Scotland
- Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act
- Connect
- Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme
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Sharing ideas
- Learn with Fred - Dundee family literacies project
- Bridging the gap at Bannockburn High School
- A change of culture at Denny High School
- An appetite for learning at Bellshill Academy
- Family learning - Science, Glasgow Clyde College
- Working with ESOL parents through storytelling
- Communicating with parents at Alloa Academy
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