Local Campaigning EIS Assistant Secretary David Belsey provides an update on the continuing campaign to make schools safe places to work and to learn. “Protect Education” is an overarching EIS campaign to ensure that education is delivered effectively, safely and in a sustainable manner during and immediately after the pandemic. Based on survey returns, school […]
Organising Members for Disability Equality The current context for disabled people The pandemic and lockdowns have had a hugely disproportionate impact on disabled people, as emergency responses of governments often fail to take disabled people’s lived experience and needs into account. In April 2020, Inclusion Scotland conducted a survey of 800 disabled people and carers, […]
An EIS member draws comparisons between Scotland and Canada in their respective approaches to combating Covid in schools. Being a Canadian living and working as a primary teacher in Scotland, I have had the opportunity to observe how the Canadian, (more specifically Ontarian), as well as Scottish education systems have reshaped, refocused and reinvented themselves […]
As little as a year ago, say well-being and you would hear mindfulness, then echoes of meditation, followed by yoga, and possibly tofu. And while social media remains laden with Well-being Wednesday posts of impressive yoga poses and beautifully scripted affirmations, mindfulness seems to take less of a centre stage in the world of well-being […]
Beyond the Hashtags – Anti-racism in Our Everyday The International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination is a day of solidarity with all people fighting to resist racial oppression. Set on the 21st of March, the observance commemorates the same day in 1960, when South African police opened fire on peaceful protesters in Sharpesville who […]
Each year, the EIS Action Research Grants scheme enables a cohort of our members to undertake projects which advance their professional learning and innovate teaching practice. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, EIS researchers are additionally engaged with the challenges of lockdowns and disruption for both their teaching and their research. Responding to these […]
Looking Back, Looking Forwards Scottish Union Learning (SUL) funded courses are a familiar feature in the professional learning offer from the EIS and have been for a number of years. So, as we come to the end of the latest funding cycle (1st April 2019 to 31st March 2021) we are taking a look back […]
ZERO COVID STRATEGY Zero Covid Strategy is an aspiration based on the premise that there is no acceptable level of transmission of the virus. Some argue that total elimination is impossible, that the virus is endemic. This may or may not be true. However, by pursuing the aspiration of Zero Covid we will put ourselves […]
