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Scot Ferns Jiang ONeill LeitrimComhairle na ng Cork City Comhairle na ng Luana Romila Dylan Gordon Fingal Comhairle na ng Kilkenny Comhairle na ng Cormac Brady Michael Lough Cavan Comhairle na ng Roscommon Comhairle na ng


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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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