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… Read more: Protecting Education

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,… Read more: Disability Equality

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… Read more: A Look Across the Atlantic

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… Read more: Has Mindfulness Fallen Out of Fashion?

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… Read more: Anti-racism in Our Everyday