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Scot Ferns

LeitrimComhairle na nÓg

Luana Romila

Fingal Comhairle na nÓg

Cormac Brady

Cavan Comhairle na nÓg

Ross Beatty

Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown Comhairle na nÓg

Jiang O’Neill

Cork City Comhairle na nÓg

Dylan Gordon

Kilkenny Comhairle na nÓg

Michael Lough

Roscommon Comhairle na nÓg

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Comhairle na nÓg National Executive & Equality in Schools

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Dáil na nÓg 2017 workshop

Five settings discussed in relation to Equality

• SCHOOL
• HOME & COMMUNITY
• ONLINE
• PUBLIC SERVICES
• SPORT & LEISURE

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EQUALITY IN SCHOOL

• Most voted on setting at Dáil na nÓg

2017

• ‘Equality in School’ = basis of the work of

the Comhairle na nÓg National Executive 2018-19

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Dáil na nÓg 2017 workshop report

• Unequal treatment of students by

teachers

• School uniform and appearance issues
• Gender equality – subject choices
• LGBTI Equality issues
• Issues relating to curriculum
• Religious equality issues
• Irish language equality issues

Key Equality Is Issues fr from th the Dáil il na na nÓg workshop report

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Dáil na nÓg workshop report: topics relating to Equality in Schools

• Access for all
• Individuality
• Student Voice
• Equality training for teachers
• LGBTI
• Equal spread of resources
• Gender Equality
• Cultural Equality

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Our focus for 2018-19

❑ Individuality

Develop a campaign

❑ Student Voice

Develop a set of guidelines for schools

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Our Steering Committee

• Department of Education and Skills
• Senior Inspector, Department of

Education & Skills

• Head of Participation, Ombudsman for

Children’s Office

• Secretariat of Secondary Schools
• Association of Community and

Comprehensive Schools

• Representative from School of Education,

University College Cork

• ISSU (Irish Secondary Schools Union
• School teachers and school principals

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Role of the steering committee

To ensure we:

• have access to appropriate advice and

support

• are formally connected to decision-

makers and key stakeholders in relation to our topic and

• have the opportunity to influence

decision-making that will affect young people nationally

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Guidelines for Student Voice:

Their purpose

• To create an effective partnership

between students, teachers and school management

• To provide equal opportunity for

individual student voice to be heard and recognised

• To sustain and embed a fairly

elected student council

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Working wit ith Student Councils

• The best place to start to work on Student

Voice in schools

• Better to work with what is currently in

existence and to build on the structures already there

• However vast improvements are needed
• Student Councils need to be revived and

revolutionised.

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Guid idelines on Student Voic ice:

❑ Not a passive document - a web- based resource ❑ Online interactive toolkit

What they will look like

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Individuality in schools

Our campaign Call to Action ❑ Fair and universal school rules ❑ For schools to allow more individuality in student appearance

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What we’d like to see:

• Same uniform rules would apply to both

boys and girls – more gender-neutral

• ptions
• Allow for more self-expression
• Allow for more diverse and less strict

uniform codes that take into account student’s cultural and religious beliefs

• A

more accepting environment for students to develop as individuals

Our key message: ‘Our appearance has nothing to do with the way we learn’

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Social media campaign

#TeachMeAsMe

❑ Video campaign with a competition element ❑ Open to individuals or schools What individuality means to you What a school looks like when it has an

• pen atmosphere

What your school has done to promote it What it could do to better it ❑ Section on Individuality in the toolkit ❑ National Executive plan to produce a sample video to kick start the campaign ❑ Launch event later this year

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OUR ASKS:

Student Voice Guidelines

• To support us in our Student Voice topic

and in the rolling out of our Guidelines Toolkit.

• To ask your colleagues in the Dept of

Education and Skills to take on the Guidelines and to make sure they are implemented in schools nationwide.

• Encourage your Education colleagues to

take ownership of the Toolkit, making sure that the guidelines have long-term sustainability and become embedded in schools, to continue long after our term finishes in late 2019.

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OUR ASKS: Individuality campaign

• To ask for your support by becoming

an Ambassador for our campaign.

• To be the public face of the

#TeachMeAsMe campaign

• To help us to promote it on social

media & to gain good publicity

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OUR WISH:

• To make school a fairer and

more inclusive place for all with a culture of valuing the voices

• f young people

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THANK YOU FOR LISTENING

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