Learning for Sustainability Scotland

Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Drop-In #6
2023-01-26 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London)
Learning for Sustainability is an international and national priority in education.

Making a professional commitment to learning and learners that is compatible with the aspiration of achieving a sustainable and equitable world embodies what it is to be a teacher in Scotland.

In Scotland, the Professional Standards for teachers and college lecturers are underpinned by Learning for Sustainability as a key cross-cutting theme; interdependent with the other key cross-cutting themes of Values and Leadership.

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.

Book your place here.

Our 2022 AGM and networking event: Transformational Change through Learning
2023-01-11 16:00 - 18:00
Learning for Sustainability Scotland warmly invites its members to attend its AGM and Networking event on Wednesday 11th January 2023.

Our AGM and networking event – held online – is an excellent opportunity to network with other Learning for Sustainability Scotland members.

This year, we’ll be hosting inspirational speakers and celebrating stories on the theme of ‘Transformational Change through Learning‘.

Join us on Wednesday 11 January 2023 from 16:00 – 18:00 for the chance to:

Enjoy insights on the theme of ‘Transformational Change through Learning‘ from our keynote speaker

Be inspired by stories of transformational change through learning from across our membership

Hear more about our activity over the past year

Hear more about the Steering Group members for 2023-2025

Connect and network with other Learning for Sustainability Scotland members.

Click here to book your place.

Click here to view the programme

We look forward to welcoming you on 11th January 2023!

Connecting for Transformational Change through Learning
2022-12-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Leith Community Croft, Leith Links, Edinburgh, EH6 7EY
J﻿oin Learning for Sustainability Scotland for the first of two members’ events focusing on ‘Transformational Change through Learning for Sustainability’.

This first event, ‘Connecting for Transformational Change through Learning for Sustainability’ will be held in-person:

on: Tuesday 6 December 2022 from 4-6pm

at: Leith Community Croft, Leith Links (corner of John’s Place and Links Place), Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 7EY.

J﻿oin us for an evening of connection through food, fire, music and festivity.

We’ll hear from an inspirational speaker, engage in group discussions and have the opportunity to network with contacts old and new.

Places are limited, so early booking is advised.

Book your place here.

Supporting and Strengthening Approaches to ESD in Universities and Colleges
2022-11-21 09:30 - 12:30 | Online
Join EAUC Scotland and LfSS for the next Education for Sustainable Development Topic Support Network and Further & Higher Education LfSS Task Group Meeting, where we’ll focus on ‘Supporting and Strengthening Approaches to ESD in Universities and Colleges’. Here, we will aim to:

Identify support educators need to meet existing and new professional standards for ESD. Share examples of existing support within institutions.Walk through resources available and plan actions to strengthen approaches to ESD.

This event is open to all further and higher education staff UK-wide, but will be of specific interest to teaching staff.

Book your place here: Supporting and Strengthening Approaches to ESD in Universities and Colleges | EAUC

Learning for Sustainability & the National Discussion on Education
2022-11-07 16:00 - 17:00
The need to support learners of all ages to contribute building a socially-just, sustainable and equitable society has never been greater.

To step up action on Learning for Sustainability, a refresh of Scotland’s Learning for Sustainability Action Plan is currently underway.

This is also a time of change for Scotland’s education system. The Scottish Government and COSLA have launched the ‘most inclusive ever National Discussion on education in Scotland with learners playing a key part in decision-making’.

What are the most important priorities for a future education system? What kind of education, skills, knowledge and support will young people require to positively contribute to our changing world?

This meeting aims to provide an opportunity to:

• Engage with the current national education and Learning for Sustainability policy agendas

• Consider how Learning for Sustainability contributes to the future vision for Scotland’s education system

• Find out how to involve others in contributing to the National Discussion on education

Join us and Professor Alma Harris, co-facilitator of the National Discussion, for this opportunity to hear more about, discuss and feed into one of the most important discussions on the direction of Scottish education in recent years.

Further details of the session, a Microsoft Teams link and agenda will be sent nearer the date.

We look forward to welcoming you to the discussion. It’s time to #TalkScottishEducation.

Click here to book your place.

'Live at COP27': free online learning for all
2022-11-07 08:00 - 2022-11-20 17:00
Learning for a Sustainable Future: Live at COP27, will run during the United Nations COP27 Climate Change Conference which takes place in Egypt between 6-18 November.

This 2-week MOOC ran last year in parallel with COP26 and attracted over 4,000 learners from over 130 countries worldwide. We are very pleased to be able to offer it once again and very grateful to be working in partnership with The University of Edinburgh and British Council to bring you this course.

This two-week course offers you an opportunity to examine what COP27 is, why it’s considered to be important and reflect on how you can add your voice to the call for collective action for a sustainable future.

Throughout the course, we will share ‘live’ insights into the issues being discussed at COP27, as well as responses to the conference themes from children and young people, community groups and ministerial bodies, both nationally and internationally. Using these ‘starting points’, we will invite you to reflect on what you have heard, watched and read, and think about what these conversations and issues mean to you.

Find out more and sign up here. We look forward to welcoming you!

Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Drop-In #5
2022-10-27 16:00 - 17:00

Learning for Sustainability and 'Putting Young People at the Centre'
2022-10-05 16:00 - 17:00
This is a time of change for Scotland’s education system.

The Scottish Government and COSLA are launching the ‘most inclusive ever discussion on education in Scotland, with learners playing a key part in decision-making’. In addition, a refresh of the national Learning for Sustainability Action Plan is currently underway.

The need to support young people to contribute to building a socially-just, sustainable and equitable society has never been greater. How do we ensure that youth work sector organisations can collaborate to support these important new developments? Join our online ‘round table’ meeting with youth sector network organisations in Scotland, to share, discuss and plan.

This meeting aims to provide an opportunity to:

• Understand the current education and Learning for Sustainability policy agendas

• Share contributions to the 2022 National Discussion on education and LfS Action Plan refresh

• Identify opportunities for connecting and collaborating with others and between sectors (communities/youth/schools/colleges/universities)

Book your place here.

LfS and the future of learning in Scotland's land-based and aquaculture sectors
2022-10-03 16:00 - 17:30
What is this event about?

Join Learning for Sustainability Scotland and the Scottish Government for an opportunity to share your views and experiences with the Scottish Government’s Commission for the Land-Based Learning Review and to contribute to shaping the future of learning in Scotland’s land-based and aquaculture sectors.

The event will cover the themes of:

∙ Education and Training

∙ Skills Gaps and Shortages

∙ Awareness and Perception of the Land-based Sector

Background Information

The Commission is a short-term advisory group that will provide Scottish Ministers with independent, evidence-based recommendations and advice on how to attract more people into the land-based and aquaculture sectors and how to improve learning pathways.

The review covers learning from early-years to adulthood – through school, college, university and work-based learning – with the aim to help more people, and specifically more women, to work with and on the land, particularly in ‘green skills’.

A key part of the Review, and the purpose of this stakeholder event, is to gather a wide range of views, experiences and evidence to inform the Commission’s considerations and recommendations.

Book your place here.

'Learning for a Sustainable Future': free online learning for all
2022-10-03 08:00 - 2022-11-06 17:00
This highly-successful 5-week, free, open-access MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is back!

In 2021, over 3,000 learners from over 100 countries took part and we are delighted to once again be offering it to participants across the world. We are very grateful to be working in partnership with The University of Edinburgh and British Council to bring you this course.

This course supports you to reflect, investigate, discuss and develop an informed response to the global challenges that matter to you. Taking a personalised issue-based approach, you will have the opportunity to further investigate the diverse causes, impacts, and multiple social and political factors related to a sustainability issue that you feel is important; before making an informed response towards taking action, in whatever form that may take. Recognising that we will all come to this course from various starting points and with a range of perspectives, we have created space for community discussions where we can share our own contexts, issues and experiences and learn with and from one another. The course also offers an opportunity to reflect and discuss the teaching and learning approaches we offer whilst creating space to hear the ways in which you are working, or may wish to work, with your learners, whomever they may be.

Find out more and sign up here. We look forward to welcoming you!

Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards - monthly Drop-In #4
2022-09-29 16:00 - 17:00

‘Climate Sisters: bringing women’s voices to the climate table’
2022-09-22 14:00 - 2022-09-29 15:00 | Greyfriars Charteris Centre, 138 The Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9RR
Exhibition: Greyfriars Charteris Centre, Edinburgh, EH8 9RR

Please note that the exhibition will not be open on Saturday 24 September due to a closed event.

The Climate Sisters are a group of thirteen women which formed in 2020 during a climate leadership course where, through discussion and collaboration, they each developed creative responses to aspects of climate justice and other sustainability issues they cared about.

Through the Women’s Environmental Network (WEN), the project gained support from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Care International and Action Aid UK. Additionally, the University of Glasgow provided mentors to help the women to develop and create their ideas, and the University of Edinburgh documented the project in conversation with young people from SCOREscotland through two films; bringing their collective stories into the ‘Learning for a Sustainable Future’ series of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). These collaborations enabled the women to develop their varied ideas, make them a reality and share them widely.

This exhibition offers an opportunity to interact with each of the creative pieces produced by the Climate Sisters which include poetry, music, podcasts, sculptures, paintings, jewellery, filmmaking, fashion and photography.

It is open, free of charge, 10am until 16:00 daily* from 22nd – 29th September at the Greyfriars Charteris Centre, 138 The Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9RR.

*The exhibition will not be open on Saturday 24 September due to a closed event.

Learning for Sustainability (LfS), the Professional Standards and you: supporting the learner entitlement to LfS - part of the Scottish Learning Festival 2022
2022-09-21 12:30 - 13:15
Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland online at the 2022 Scottish Learning Festival!

‘Making a professional commitment to learning and learners that is compatible with the aspiration of achieving a sustainable and equitable world embodies what it is to be a teacher in Scotland’ GTCS Professional Standards 2021

Learning for Sustainability is an international and national priority in education, an entitlement for learners in Scotland and underpins the Professional Standards for Teachers as a key cross-cutting theme.Join us to explore the new GTC Scotland Learning for Sustainability Hub, and hear from practitioners about how to realise this most vital of themes in your practice and the wider life of your setting.

Find out more and book your place here: SCOTTISH LEARNING FESTIVAL – Scottish Education Events 2022

'Putting Learning for Sustainability at the heart of practice in Early Years' - our webinar event in partnership with the EIS
2022-09-20 16:00 - 17:00
We warmly invite Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) members from the early years sector to join us and the EIS for this Professional Learning webinar.

Session overview

Attendees will have the opportunity to:

join fellow teachers and sector leaders to explore and share approaches to weaving a Learning for Sustainability ethos through their practice and the wider life of their settingshear conversations between fellow practitioners who are already making LfS part of the everyday in their own practice and setting.find out more about practical resources which support Learning for Sustainability in Scottish education.benefit from insights into effective approaches to LfS activity and practical examples to shape their own teaching.

Book your place now by visiting the EIS website.

If you have any questions about this event please contact rhenthorn@eis.org.uk

'Putting Learning for Sustainability at the heart of practice in Secondary' - our webinar event in partnership with the EIS
2022-09-13 16:00 - 17:00
We warmly invite Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) members from the secondary sector to join us and the EIS for this Professional Learning webinar.

Session overview

Attendees will have the opportunity to:

join fellow teachers and sector leaders to explore and share approaches to weaving a Learning for Sustainability ethos through their practice and the wider life of their settingshear conversations between fellow practitioners who are already making LfS part of the everyday in their own practice and setting.find out more about practical resources which support Learning for Sustainability in Scottish education.benefit from insights into effective approaches to LfS activity and practical examples to shape their own teaching.

Book your place now by visiting the EIS website.

If you have any questions about this event please contact rhenthorn@eis.org.uk

We warmly invite Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) members from the early years sector to join us and the EIS for this Professional Learning webinar.

Session overview

Attendees will have the opportunity to:

join fellow teachers and sector leaders to explore and share approaches to weaving a Learning for Sustainability ethos through their practice and the wider life of their settingshear conversations between fellow practitioners who are already making LfS part of the everyday in their own practice and setting.find out more about practical resources which support Learning for Sustainability in Scottish education.benefit from insights into effective approaches to LfS activity and practical examples to shape their own teaching.

Book your place now by visiting the EIS website.

If you have any questions about this event please contact rhenthorn@eis.org.uk

We warmly invite Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) members from the secondary sector to join us and the EIS for this Professional Learning webinar.

Session overview

Attendees will have the opportunity to:

join fellow teachers and sector leaders to explore and share approaches to weaving a Learning for Sustainability ethos through their practice and the wider life of their settingshear conversations between fellow practitioners who are already making LfS part of the everyday in their own practice and setting.find out more about practical resources which support Learning for Sustainability in Scottish education.benefit from insights into effective approaches to LfS activity and practical examples to shape their own teaching.

Book your place now by visiting the EIS website.

If you have any questions about this event please contact rhenthorn@eis.org.uk

‘Putting Learning for Sustainability at the heart of practice in Primary’ – our webinar event in partnership with the EIS
2022-09-07 16:00 - 17:00
We warmly invite Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) members from the primary sector to join us and the EIS for this Professional Learning webinar.

Session overview

Attendees will have the opportunity to:

join fellow teachers and sector leaders to explore and share approaches to weaving a Learning for Sustainability ethos through their practice and the wider life of their settingshear conversations between fellow practitioners who are already making LfS part of the everyday in their own practice and setting.find out more about practical resources which support Learning for Sustainability in Scottish education.benefit from insights into effective approaches to LfS activity and practical examples to shape their own teaching.

Book your place now by visiting the EIS website.

If you have any questions about this event please contact rhenthorn@eis.org.uk

College Expo 2022: Engaging all college staff with sustainability
2022-08-23 12:00 - 13:00
The College Development Network (CDN) will shortly launch a short self-guided online course to help all college staff understand what sustainability is, and its relevance to their roles and personal lives as well as the wider world. The course will be interactive, enjoyable and memorable, useful for everyday life at home and work, and will take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

Join this session, led by course developers Learning for Sustainability Scotland and EAUC-Scotland, to hear more about the course and how to make the most of this free learning opportunity, as well as further opportunities for advancing sustainability within your college.

Book your free place and view the full College Expo 2022 Programme here: Virtual College Expo22 – College Development Network (cdn.ac.uk)

Collaboration to scale up community action on sustainability
2022-08-18 12:00 - 13:30
Click here to book your place

Many public sector bodies, including local authorities, have a mandate to support sustainability action and to facilitate community engagement in their regions. At the same time, many community-led initiatives and intentional communities are developing creative regenerative practices. The aim of this workshop is to explore how we can scale up community efforts through collaboration, especially between communities and local authorities but also involving other actors. We will draw on the results and tools developed in an Erasmus Plus project and pilot their use in Scotland and beyond.

The Ecovillage Transition in Action project

We are delighted to be able to offer this workshop from our Erasmus Plus-funded project Ecovillage Transition in Action (ETiA). We are coming towards the end of this innovative, international project and we are looking forward to sharing the results of our hard work with different audiences and seeing how they might support your work.

The project developed through the partnership of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), GEN Deutschland, Hurdal Ecovillage, ECOLISE and University of St Andrews, Scotland. We comprised a group including facilitators, trainers and academics. All of us had experience of living and working in a community, and most of us had worked with or in local authorities, NGOs and global organisations such as UNESCO.

The project researched the following questions:

How do we scale up regenerative practices that are developed and implemented in community-led initiatives such as Ecovillages and Transition Towns?How do we implement and embed local authority sustainability policies in communities?How do we support thriving collaborations to collectively achieve sustainability transitions beyond the community level?

The team produced a Handbook, along with a Trainers’ handbook, a Toolkit of resources and a Navigation tool to facilitate better collaboration between community led initiatives and local authorities and other partners and to enable them to co-create a better future. In this workshop we will explore how to thrive and scale through collaboration, using these tools and more.

Workshop detail

The meeting will take place online 18th August 12:00 to 13:30 in collaboration with Sustainable Scotland Network and Learning for Sustainability Scotland.

Click here to book your place.

Indigeneity in Europe: Issues and Perspectives
2022-07-28 08:00 - 17:00
Indigeneity in Europe: Issues and Perspectives

The Place Wisdom Working Group (PWWG) of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore are preparing an exciting scoping workshop this July to bring members of the group together with one another and with others representing diverse institutions, expertise, and knowledges, to share and develop understandings of indigeneity in the European context.

The event, which is a collaboration between the PWWG, UHI’s Institute for Northern Studies, and Learning for Sustainability Scotland, is planned to take place at UHI Perth on 28 July 2022, with linked events on the evening before and the morning after. The plan is for an on-site workshop that will allow for social contact and outdoor activities.

Johan Sandberg McGuinne (https://johansandbergmcguinne.wordpress.com/about/), Indigenous knowledge and tradition bearer of the South Sámi in Sweden and a Scottish Gaelic translator, teacher, poet and academic, has been invited to give a keynote sharing Indigenous methodologies; including creative engagement with the living traditions of Place Wisdom. This is scheduled as a public evening event on 27 July 2022.

We are inviting contributions (short field reports, thought-pieces, provocations, or other interventions) that will stimulate exploration and debate under four broad themes:

Lands, peoples and languagesLiving from the landSpiritual knowledgeIntercultural / intergenerational issues

If you are interested in participating, please contact ullrich.kockel@uhi.ac.uk as soon as possible.

There is no attendance fee. Catering outlets are available near the workshop venue. A number of reasonably priced en-suite rooms have been reserved for participants who need overnight accommodation on 27 and/or 28 July. If you would like to make use of this, please register your interest via the above email address.

LfS in the Professional Standards - Drop-In #3
2022-05-26 16:00 - 17:00
Calling all teachers in Scotland!

Join our monthly drop-in sessions to discuss and share more about Learning for Sustainability across the Professional Standards.

Drop-In #3 will have a focus on Self-Evaluation.

Book your place here: Learning for Sustainability & the Professional Standards: monthly drop-in 3 Tickets, Thu 26 May 2022 at 16:00 | Eventbrite

Learning for Sustainability is an international and national priority in education.

In Scotland, the Professional Standards for Teachers are underpinned by Learning for Sustainability as a key cross-cutting theme; interdependent with the other key cross-cutting themes of Values and Leadership. Making a professional commitment to learning and learners that is compatible with the aspiration of achieving a sustainable and equitable world embodies what it is to be a teacher in Scotland.

Join our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.

Visit the new GTC Scotland Learning for Sustainability Hub: Learning for Sustainability – The General Teaching Council for Scotland (gtcs.org.uk)

Co-creating a Fair and Green Future with Young People: Learning for Sustainability in Action
2022-05-12 16:00 - 17:00
Co-hosted in partnership with YouthLink Scotland, this interactive webinar explores how to work with young people to envision and co-create a sustainable future in their own communities, and to become active change agents.

COP 26 demonstrated that young people are vocal and active, demanding urgent and decisive change and holding leaders accountable, in particular to address the climate, nature and social justice crises. They have, and continue to envision, creative and ingenious solutions to sustainability challenges. What is required for successful inter-generational co-creation of a fair and green future? How can we ensure that young people’s voices are heard and acted on, in response to the current challenges that we all face?

This session will be relevant for teachers, community and youth work practitioners working with young people in formal and informal settings. Find out more and book your place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-creating-a-fair-and-green-future-with-young-people-lfs-in-action-tickets-323099889467

Join the LfS Conversation: the second monthly Drop-In session with GTC Scotland
2022-04-28 16:00 - 17:00
Learning for Sustainability is an international and national priority in education.

In Scotland, the Professional Standards for Teachers are underpinned by Learning for Sustainability as a key cross-cutting theme; interdependent with the other key cross-cutting themes of Values and Leadership.

We’re working with GTC Scotland to develop a Learning for Sustainability Hub to help teachers to explore, engage and enact & embed Learning for Sustainability in their practice.

As part of this new Hub, we warmly invite you to connect with other teachers and contributors to collaborate on, inspire, inform and celebrate Learning for Sustainability across your teaching, setting and learning community.

We will be offering several different ways in which to do this; including our new monthly Drop-In sessions. Join us for the second of these on 28 April from 4-5pm.

Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/mre55hhx

#ThisisLfS

#TimeforLfS

Planting the Seeds: Whole-Institution Approaches to Implementing ESD in Further and Higher Education
2022-04-26 13:30 - 16:00
Join EAUC Scotland and Learning for Sustainability Scotland online to explore how to engage, enable and support the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development in colleges and universities.

Insights into innovative approaches to pedagogy and assessment, governance mechanisms, frameworks and policies will be shared by students and staff from a range of institutions and there will be opportunities for open discussion and resource sharing.

This event is open UK wide and everyone is welcome to attend.

Click here to register: https://www.eauc.org.uk/shop/mms_single_event.php?event_id=7936 .

Climate Crisis: a reflection by the Multi-generational Resilience Wisdom Council
2022-03-24 19:00 - 20:30
Next Thursday, March 24 2022, the Alliance for Intergenerational Resilience (AIR) invites you to witness the 2nd Multi-generational Resilience Wisdom Council. This council brings together youth and Elders from different communities and traditions across Turtle Island and Alba (Scotland) along with Maori knowledge holders living on Turtle Island to share their wisdom, insights, and lessons from their relationships with their territories to better understand the roles we each can play in mitigating the ongoing Climate Crisis.

The event will be held online (by Zoom) on March 24 2022, from 3pm-4pm EDT/ 7 – 8pm GMT. To register, please follow this link: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIucuigrz4rGNw9s26rY-1RkanhgiN7mP7J

For more information about the AIR and its work please visit intergenresil.com.

Join the LfS conversation: monthly Drop-In sessions with GTC Scotland
2022-03-17 16:00 - 17:00
Learning for Sustainability is an international and national priority in education.

In Scotland, the Professional Standards for Teachers are underpinned by Learning for Sustainability as a key cross-cutting theme; interdependent with the other key cross-cutting themes of Values and Leadership.

We’re working with GTC Scotland to develop a Learning for Sustainability Hub to help teachers to explore, engage and enact & embed Learning for Sustainability in their practice.

As part of this new Hub, we warmly invite you to connect with other teachers and contributors to collaborate on, inspire, inform and celebrate Learning for Sustainability across your teaching, setting and learning community.

We will be offering several different ways in which to do this; including our new monthly Drop-In sessions. Join us for the first of these on 17 March from 4-5pm.

Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/mre55hhx

#ThisisLfS

#TimeforLfS

'Learning for a Sustainable Future' - free online course
2022-03-14 08:00 - 17:00
This popular free five-week massive open access online course (MOOC), for educators and everyone with an interest in sustainability, starts again on 14th March 2022.

How to live a sustainable life affects – and connects – us all. Learn more about current global issues and consider how we can all take action, personally or locally. The MOOC has a particular focus for those working in formal or informal education that would like to bring some of the activities and issues covered in the course into their own teaching.

Hosted on FutureLearn, the course is brought to you by the University of Edinburgh, LfS Scotland and the British Council.

Find out more and register here:

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learning-for-sustainable-future/2?utm_campaign=edin_bau&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=lfss_website

Our 2021 AGM and networking event
2022-01-12 11:00 - 14:00
Learning for Sustainability Scotland warmly invites you to attend our AGM and Networking event on Wednesday 12th January 2022 from 11:00 am – 2:00 pm.

At the start of a new year, and of Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022, this year’s annual gathering, held online, is a chance to reconnect with both people and planet through stories. We’ll be celebrating our members stories, and taking a look at our own, as well as exploring how to tell sustainability stories in new ways to inspire our audiences with keynote speaker, professional storyteller Dougie Mackay.

Click here to find out more and book your place.

The Role of Teacher Education in Responding to Global Challenges
2021-11-30 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
The webinar is open to teacher educators. (university or school-based) and those with an interest in the education and training of future teachers. It will be an opportunity to:

Explore the place of Learning for Equity and Sustainability (LFES) in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and contribute to ongoing dialogue about how ITE responds to global challengesConnect with colleagues from all 4 regions of the UK, learn from examples of good practice and reflect on current guidance and opportunities for ITE

For more information about aims, contributions and the programme, and to register, please follow the Eventbrite link here.

The 12th Global RCE Conference is coming to Scotland...
2021-11-16 12:00 - 2021-11-18 12:00 | Online
The 12th Global RCE Conference will be held online from 16-18 November, 2021.

The event will be jointly hosted by RCE Scotland and the Global RCE Service Centre under the theme ‘Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: action through learning in a time of global crises’.

Over these three days, delegates from over 180 Regional Centres of Expertise across the world will come together to collectively share, explore and build on the knowledge, skills and values within this global network to support the capacities and actions needed to achieve the SDGs.

Click here to view the draft programme.

Registrations are now also open and you can sign up here.

Be part of the celebrations!

We are delighted that such a prestigious event is coming to Scotland. This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase and celebrate some of the fantastic learning that is happening across our country to make sustainability part of the everyday for learners of all ages and backgrounds. We’d be very grateful, therefore, if you would consider sharing your Learning for Sustainability story as part of this. You have until 01st November to send your contribution to us at enquiries@lfsscotland.org.

There are two ways you can share your activity:

1. As a ‘Postcard’:

This would consist of a short video clip (5 minutes or less), outlining your activity. Ideally, it would include footage of your work and the people involved in it, and either a voiceover and/or text outlining your activity, its aims and its outcomes/impact. Accompanying music would be especially welcome! We will be selecting two of the Postcards submitted to us for showcasing during the Conference itself and all Postcards will be uploaded to our online ‘Sharing Space’ for delegates to view at their leisure.

2. As a contribution for our online ‘Sharing Space’:

We will be building an online platform for sharing good practice from across Scotland and our RCE colleagues worldwide. You can send us content in any format you choose: e.g. video, PDF, graphic/photograph, or as a link to content on your own website.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us at enquiries@lfsscotland.org if you’d like any additional information.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Learning for a Sustainable Future: Live at COP26!
2021-11-01 09:00 - 2021-11-14 17:00 | Online
November 1st – November 14th 2021

There has never been a more urgent need for collaborative action to guarantee a sustainable future This two-week free online course, which runs in parallel with the COP26 conference, offers you an opportunity to examine what COP26 is, why it’s important and to reflect on how we can all add our voices to the call for collective action for a sustainable future. By the University of Edinburgh, Learning for Sustainability Scotland and The British Council on FutureLearn.

Enrol here
