SPRING 2018
Educating for a fair and sustainable world
CDEC is a member of the Consortium of Development Education Centres
Join us at The Big Global Learning Conference 2018 Monday 5 March at Rheged Centre With a host of inspirational global learning workshops, buzzing speakers and nce useful insights into local education policy, The Big Global Learning Confere is not to be missed! The global learning landscape is evolving and so, with our Global Schools project and GLP, CDEC and Armathwaite Primary School are hosting this inspirational regional professional development conference for global teachers at Rheged Centre on Monday 5 March. Registration opens at 9.00am with a 9.15 start and the day formally closes at 2.45pm with plenty of time to network with fellow global learning teachers after this.
Workshops include: • The power of story-telling in global learning • Hidden Stories: Shared Lives – understanding migration in Cumbria • Developing supportive networks to sustain and strengthen global learning into the future • Active global citizenship and growing student voice • Including gender in the curriculum • Past histories, present understanding
If you are a teacher or head teacher interested in developing and extending global learning in your school, do come along. There will be opportunities to: ed • network with fellow global teachers and explore how you can be support • gain an insight into local education policy on global education your confidence and skills in embedding global learning across the curriculum
• increase • pick up lots of practical ideas for bringing global learning to life • meet and be inspired by the work of young global citizens. If you like the sound of this, please book your place as soon as possible via the GLP booking page at http://bit.ly/2F2nXQc or you can find the link at www.cdec.org.uk. If you have any questions, give us a call on 015394 31602 or email claire@cdec.org.uk. See you there!
Be Quick: book now for free training! GLP e-credits! Get your Free CDEC training through h! Marc 29 by k But you have to boo ing with CDEC is running The chance to access free CPD train (GLP) is ending in the next e ramm Prog ning out! The Global Lear h to book your place on few months and you have until 29 Marc now! k boo So ses. cour CDEC’s CPD training book your self on, ensure on, Decide which cour se you want to go learning whole school al glob GLP its d your school has complete audit, and come to the cour se! open twilight sessions, or You and your colleagues can come on ol twilight Inset or even a you can book us in for a whole scho us along for a consultancy ask also can you day’s Inset in April, and global learning. The catch on where your school can go next with activity will be held the and h Marc 29 is you have to book by before 1 June.
Cumbria Development Education Centre Low Nook, Rydal Road, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 9BB
Tel/Fax: 015394 31602
as to what funding schools Once GLP has finished, we are unsure global learning, so please in ing train ss will be able to get to acce rtunity – it is FREE training! do make the most of this brilliant oppo ses or to ask any questions, To book your place on any of our cour or 2 3160 please call us on 015394 Need help with your GLP email office@cdec.org.uk wh ole school audit? Contact For all our current open cour ses, sara.nobili-park@pearson.co ! m look on the back page for help with your audit. If you have already done one, you can do a second and access more credits, but be quick!
Email: office@cdec.org.uk
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Meet CDEC’s New Director: Laura Goad Opportunities like this - to take the reins as Director of CDEC, a much-lo ved, respected, vibrant and visionary organisation - do not present themselves very often. As I thought about applying for the post, and then during the interviews, I was humbled and excited by the enthusi asm, passion and compassion the staff team and board have for CDEC. The offer of the position felt like I was coming home. CDEC holds a special place in the hearts of all who have worked with the organisation; my hopes are that the relationships with schools, partner ships and people CDEC works with currently continue to grow so that all our horizons and aspirations are expanded. My road travelled to bring me here started when I, along with other 16-yearolds and a couple of teacher s, set up a charity ‘Youth 2000’ to fundraise to travel each summer to Romania to work with orphans, communities and organisations. This resulted in seven years of partner ship working, bringing what we could with us but taking so much more away. This really sparked my ‘global citizen’ identity. I jumped at the opportunity in 2000 to leave Northern Ireland to work in Uganda, as a teacher ; my four years there were amazing (I still dine out on the stories of arguing with a baboon). For the last 13 years I have been UK-based, working first in a peace-building organisation on social action projects with young people and, latterly, working to support a range of voluntar y, community and faith sector organisations with training, policy development, funding and networ king as well as helping with a variety of young people. I am excited about joining CDEC and working with all of you; I am honour ed to be helping you all to build a fairer, more sustainable world.
Onwards! Goodbye from CDEC’s director, Katie Carr This morning I had an early Skype call with partners across Europe, sharing ideas for an international conference. Late morning was spent drafting a proposal for a storytelling project, and this afternoon I worked with an inspiring group of ten-year-old researchers in Barrow, who are investigating what children in their town feel about the future. This was a typical day at CDEC: varied, challenging, and connected. Last year, we were involved in a Europe-wide research project that explored what policy factors enable or hinder the embedding of global learning in schools. Of the 14 countries involved in the study, global learning was found to be increasingly central to education policy in 12 countries. Two countries were found to have made backward steps…and one of them was England. Curriculum changes and increasing pressure – on teacher s and children – have meant it is becoming more and more difficult even for the most passionate global educators to make space in their teaching and learning for high-quality global learning. And yet in Cumbria you are! Our county is regarded as a beacon of global learning. Cumbria school engagement statistics from the national Global Learning Programme has been consistently in the top 10% nationally, and each week we at CDEC work with teacher s whose passion and imagination is translated into participatory, active learning experiences for their pupils. Children are excited, engaged and challenged through global education. They grow and shine when they experience what it feels like to be a valued, connected, and an influential member of a global community. I would like to thank, personally, the hundreds of teacher s who have made that possible. You, along with my colleagues at CDEC, past and present, have all played a part in making this the most rewarding and fun ‘so-much-more-than-a-job’ I’ve ever had. I feel privileged and grateful to have had so many wonderful people along on my own global learning journey over the past five years, together “being the change we wish to see in the world”. And change is coming to CDEC as well; at the end of January it’s my pleasure to hand on the baton to Laura Goad, the new director of CDEC. My best wishes to everyone.
Katie
Cumbria Development Education Centre Low Nook, Rydal Road, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 9BB
Tel/Fax: 015394 31602
PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDRE N LEVEL 2a Thursd
ay 7 and Friday 8 March 2018 Venue: Amblesid e Campus, The University of Cumbria Cost: £295 per person (*FREE to those using GLP This SAPERE ac e-credits*) credited two-da y practical cour deepens particip se an become more ca ts understanding of P4C to pable facilitator s leads to a SAPE of P4C training, RE facilitator ce rtificate. Attende and this cour se mus es t have achieved a Level 1 certific on The cour se is fa ate. cilitated by Jane Yates SAPERE registered traine r and SAPERE's National Training Director, Alison Allsop. To book on this cour se, email cl aire a booking form and return to he @cdec.org.uk for r via email or gi her a call on 01 ve 5394 31602.
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Fairtrade Fortnight Monday 26 February to Sunday 11March Get ready to support Fairtrade Fortnight this year! As well as promoting this in school, why not let your school children know what’s going on round and about Cumbria? Here are just a few of the many events going on: Arnside Fairtrade Group We’re holding a “Come on in” at Arnside Sailing club (on the Promenade) on Saturday 3 March from 10.00am to 4.00pm where we will be giving out free cups of Fairtrade coffee and tea. We are also planning to have a gazebo on the lower promenade next to our Fairtrade garden with Fairtrade information. So come and see us and find out a little more! Arnside Youth project will also be doing a Fairtrade project on Friday 2 March. Windermere and Bowness Fairtrade Group Our group will have a table showcasing Fairtrade products at Booth’s Supermarket, Windermere, throughout the two weeks, with some of our members there to help shoppers with their questions at busier shopping times. In addition, all the churches in Windermere and Bowness who sell Fairtrade products throughout the year have sales planned during Fairtrade Fortnight.
Keswick Fairtrade Campaign Come and find us at our stall on the market on Saturday 3 March and join us for our Fairtrade Service at the Quaker Meeting House on Sunday 4 March at 6.00pm. Carlisle and Brampton Fairtrade Groups • Brampton Fairtrade group coffee morning, Saturday 24 February, from 9.30am to 12.00pm in the Moot Hall Come and have a look and support our Traidcraft Stall, Fairtrade baking stand and the Fairtrade raffle. The farmers’ market is on at same time. • Flag Up Fairtrade Schools Art Exhibition Thursday 1 to Tuesday 5 March all day, upstairs at the Old Fire Station. The official opening by the Mayor is on 1 March at 1.00pm. • Quiz at Brampton Community Centre Wednesday 7 March, 6.30pm to 9.30pm: Tickets cost £7.50 per person and include home-cooked pie and peas and tea/coffee, there will be Fairtrade wine to buy. Come in teams of four. Get your tickets from Simply Gorgeous Gifts, 7 Market Place, Brampton, Tel: 016977 2380.
Map Your Meal – a tasty legacy Map Your Meal came to an end in December after three years of promoting the importance of sustainable and ethical food. An array of film screenings, workshops, a photo exhibition and comedy events (to name just a few!) carried this project right through to December. It leaves us with a legacy of a free activity toolkit and a free smartphone app so we can continue to question and explore the origins and impact of our food.
What is the Food Explorer’s Guide activity toolkit? If you are interested in an approach to learning that’s driven by young people, Map Your Meal’s activity toolkit is an ideal resource. Through it, you can explore and build on young people’s existing perceptions about food. It supports anyone willing to learn more about food by using intuitive thoughts and ideas, stimulating curiosity, and helps facilitate reasoned and reflective dialogue on the concepts that underlie most issues related to global food production so that we can move to deeper conclusions. The aim of this toolkit is to: - explore our own understanding and attitudes towards sustainability in the context of food - better understand how we are connected with the world through our food - increase our confidence to advocate for more ethical and sustainable food production and consumption by practising critical scrutiny and enquir y - engage in meaningful dialogue around concepts related to food production - become inspired to start or continue our involvement in creating alternative to current food systems - promote positive change - enable communities to consider the impact their food choices have on the environment and people - support young people to make informed decisions on issues related to food. With its enquiry based approach it can be a great resource for any age group, but fits particularly well with teaching GCSE geography aspects of food and sustainability. For a free copy contact claire@cdec.org.uk or download it as a PDF from www.cdec.org.uk
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Hidden Stories Shared Lives: the project closes but the legacy is ongoing Hidden Stories is firmly on the map. Two interactive exhibitions, with two brilliant openings, and a series of CPD workshops for teachers, plus the resource box heading out and about to schools has made clear what a great project on migration to Cumbria this has been. From its initial spark of a project two years ago to its end now, the project has pulled together an array of different people and communities, making links where none had been before, and cemented connections. Over 50 individuals have been interviewed and recorded; then the interviews indexed and relevant clips placed on Hidden-Stories.co.uk, helping the project to reach and touch unexpected corners of Cumbria (and perhaps the world). This has all been made possible because of the initial links and partnership developed between CDEC, AWAZ Cumbria, South Lakeland District Council and the South Lakeland Equality and Diversity Partnership. Funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (thank you to the players!) gave the project legs and then of course the dedication of the volunteers moved the project on; they learnt the finesse of interviewing as a means of recording oral history, and then devoted their time to finding people to interview for the project and carrying out the interviews to discover the rich and diverse lives of those who were born outside the UK but have decided to make Cumbria their home. These full recordings of the interviews are going to be archived at Cumbria Archives and the Local Studies Library in Kendal, Workington and Carlisle, while short clips are available at Hidden-Stories.co.uk. Cumbrian artist Jane Dudman’s involvement brought us an Hidden Stories? How can your school benefit from inspirational and thought-provoking interactive exhibition to ways ht cour se gives you where you can hear the interviews for yourself via The Hidden Stories Shared Lives CPD twilig how we can understand ourselves listening posts, and where a number of the interviewees address what it means to be human and at the chronology of a person’s everyday lives here in Cumbria have been brought to the better. By understanding the stories, looking Hidden-Stories.co.uk, you will fore – we get a glimpse of what it is like for them to be life and accessing clips of the inter views via to explore how universal some here day-to-day but come from somewhere else. This have the resources to adapt your lessons them we can better understand exhibition has so far been held at Kendal Library and at stories of our lives are, how by looking at will help your children learn about The Rosehill Theatre in Whitehaven, and here and at ourselves, our own identity. Therefore you s’ lives so that they can learn Kendal’s Quaker Tapestry Museum we hosted celebratory the richness and diver sity of these individual openings and heard what it was like to be involved from about themselves too. the perspectives of both interviewers and interviewees. Hidden Stories resource box We are looking forward to continuing to tour the box. urce the Hidden Stories reso As a member of CDEC, you can borrow exhibition around the region, so please keep your eyes ugh thro d and stimuli develope Within the box you will find activities, tools and ears open and visit it when it comes to your area. and life to ns cy and wellbeing lesso the project to bring your geography, litera Though only a year’s project, the vast heart that Hidden be ourselves. promote discussions on what it means to Stories has will see its legacy continue, and for that we are delighted!
Spring and Summer term open CPD courses 27 February – Hidden Stories Shared Lives – Barrow area, venue tbc, 3.45-5.45pm 6 March – Global Literacy – St Martin & St Marys Primary School, Windermere, 3.45-5.45pm 7 & 8 March – Philosophy for Children SAPERE Level 2a – Ambleside (for those who have achieved Level 1) 20 March – Forest Schools Revisited – south Cumbria, venue tbc, 3.45-5.45pm (not a GLP course, use PE funding instead!) 21 March – Forest Schools Revisited – north Cumbria, venue tbc, 3.45-5.45pm (not a GLP course, use PE funding instead!) 24 April – Hidden Stories Shared Lives – north Cumbria, venue tbc, 3.45-5.45pm 3 May – Leading for the future – venue tbc, 3.45-5.45pm 22 May – Five steps to Wellbeing through global outdoor experiences – south Cumbria, venue tbc, 3.45-5.45pm 23 May – Five steps to Wellbeing through global outdoor experiences – north Cumbria, venue tbc, 3.45-5.45pm All the above courses and more are available to you too for whole school Inset. Please give us a call or drop us an email to discuss your needs and how we can help!
Cumbria Development Education Centre Low Nook, Rydal Road, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 9BB
Tel/Fax: 015394 31602
Registered Charity No 1156649
Email: office@cdec.org.uk
www.cdec.org.uk