{"id":2788,"date":"2022-04-01T10:08:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T09:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:25:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T11:25:36","slug":"international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BEAT THE BIAS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Glasgow EIS, in conjunction with Glasgow City Council, have celebrated IWD with pupils from Glasgow schools for the last 4 years. Covid-19 has meant that we have had to take a different approach to these celebrations on 8th March 2022.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/06\/woman1-1-1024x695.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2953\" width=\"409\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/06\/woman1-1-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/06\/woman1-1-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/06\/woman1-1-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/06\/woman1-1.jpg 1399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Primary and ASN schools<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>will receive books for their school libraries which celebrate women in history. Special bookplates were created to commemorate #IWD22 and #EIS175. Colleagues from Glasgow Improvement Challenge Team provided support by developing lesson plans to assist schools in exploring the books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book distribution was launched by pupils from Tinto Primary who produced a Breaking News video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>youtu.be\/uQ0xfj96gBI<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Secondary and ASN establishments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>have been invited to join our own Organiser, Dee Matthew, in an online session on Writing and Wellbeing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a workshop session planned around poetry as a tool for building confidence and authentic self-expression. This year\u2019s theme is #BeatTheBias so through introduction to a range of contemporary women and non-binary poets\u2019 Donna Matthew, Lisa Luxx, Holly McNish &amp; Laura Hershey, attendees will be encouraged to celebrate their uniqueness and step into their power. We\u2019ll set a writing task inspired by Mary Oliver, asking, if you could beat your own internal bias &amp; act fearlessly, what would you do with your one wild &amp; precious life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/06\/woman2-1-1024x730.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2956\" width=\"284\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/06\/woman2-1-1024x730.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/06\/woman2-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/06\/woman2-1-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/06\/woman2-1.jpg 1336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dee will be sharing \u2018What Sisterhood Means\u2019 by Laura Luxx during the session. Contributors will be encouraged to share their writing tasks and we plan to publicise these via our social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A leaflet has been produced to support establishments in celebrating IWD22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are hopeful that we\u2019ll be able to return to our face-to-face events in the future but in meantime we will continue to work to #BeatTheBias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/06\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2951\" width=\"495\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/06\/image-7.png 492w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/06\/image-7-213x300.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEAT THE BIAS Glasgow EIS, in conjunction with Glasgow City Council, have celebrated IWD with pupils from Glasgow schools for the last 4 years. Covid-19 has meant that we have had to take a different approach to these celebrations on 8th March 2022. 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