Janey Irving
@janeyebirving.bsky.social
Lead Specialist, Professional Learning & Leadership | Education Scotland
Thinking about how open access and self-directed professional learning empowers educators to explore, innovate and create their own transformational professional learning journey…
Thinking about how open access and self-directed professional learning empowers educators to explore, innovate and create their own transformational professional learning journey…
As a former PSDO for RAiSE it was brilliant to be a part of this celebration event - chatting all things science and STEM with practitioners visiting the stands. Connected in around practitioner enquiry and middle leadership professional learning too 😎 Well done to the RAiSE team 🎉🎉
Exciting day ahead at our national RAiSE event: Celebrating learning, Inspiring the future. Wonderful to have so many practioners joining us to help build a rich legacy for the programme #RAiSE #STEMnation @stemedscot.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
As a former PSDO for RAiSE it was brilliant to be a part of this celebration event - chatting all things science and STEM with practitioners visiting the stands. Connected in around practitioner enquiry and middle leadership professional learning too 😎 Well done to the RAiSE team 🎉🎉
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Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: holiday is for holidaying. I'm a day early this week as I'm on leave tomorrow and next week. So this is my important reminder that enquiry should not be taking up your holiday time. If it is, stop, scale back /1 🧵
#PractitionerEnquiryTotW
#PractitionerEnquiryTotW
April 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: holiday is for holidaying. I'm a day early this week as I'm on leave tomorrow and next week. So this is my important reminder that enquiry should not be taking up your holiday time. If it is, stop, scale back /1 🧵
#PractitionerEnquiryTotW
#PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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'Leadership is about service. If it’s not about service, then it ends up being just about you, and you will lose moral purpose…'
@stevemunby.bsky.social shares his leadership philosophy in this month's How I Lead ⬇️
@stevemunby.bsky.social shares his leadership philosophy in this month's How I Lead ⬇️
Steve Munby: ‘You can never fully prepare for how it feels to lead’
Our How I Lead series asks education leaders to reflect on their career and experience. This month, we talk to Steve Munby, former CEO of the National College
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March 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
'Leadership is about service. If it’s not about service, then it ends up being just about you, and you will lose moral purpose…'
@stevemunby.bsky.social shares his leadership philosophy in this month's How I Lead ⬇️
@stevemunby.bsky.social shares his leadership philosophy in this month's How I Lead ⬇️
Have you visited Education Scotlands new Leadership in Education webpage 🤩
Visit bit.ly/3EnZQPU to watch the short summary videos from our recent Leadership+ webinars and browse for further resources tailored to educational leadership.
Visit bit.ly/3EnZQPU to watch the short summary videos from our recent Leadership+ webinars and browse for further resources tailored to educational leadership.
February 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Have you visited Education Scotlands new Leadership in Education webpage 🤩
Visit bit.ly/3EnZQPU to watch the short summary videos from our recent Leadership+ webinars and browse for further resources tailored to educational leadership.
Visit bit.ly/3EnZQPU to watch the short summary videos from our recent Leadership+ webinars and browse for further resources tailored to educational leadership.
Education Scotland’s free and open-access Professional Learning Activities are available to all educators (website account required).
Don't forget to download your completed PLA certificate to keep as a log of your professional learning!
Check out our PLAs here bit.ly/4htZBSd
Don't forget to download your completed PLA certificate to keep as a log of your professional learning!
Check out our PLAs here bit.ly/4htZBSd
February 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Education Scotland’s free and open-access Professional Learning Activities are available to all educators (website account required).
Don't forget to download your completed PLA certificate to keep as a log of your professional learning!
Check out our PLAs here bit.ly/4htZBSd
Don't forget to download your completed PLA certificate to keep as a log of your professional learning!
Check out our PLAs here bit.ly/4htZBSd
Join Education Scotland’s @lforeman.bsky.social & leading teacher education researcher @profaileenk.bsky.social from Glasgow University as we explore transformative professional learning. Get ready for practical advice & actionable insights that will enhance your practice! bit.ly/42RH3qu
Leading Professional Learning - In conversation with Aileen Kennedy | Education Scotland podcast
Ready to transform professional learning in your school or setting? Join the Professional Learning and Leadership team at Education Scotland as we chat with Professor Aileen Kennedy, Professor of Teac...
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February 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Join Education Scotland’s @lforeman.bsky.social & leading teacher education researcher @profaileenk.bsky.social from Glasgow University as we explore transformative professional learning. Get ready for practical advice & actionable insights that will enhance your practice! bit.ly/42RH3qu
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First up #PedagooPerth 22/02 @ Bertha Park HS in Perth🏴 hosted by @ccouser.bsky.social @ciaracreative.bsky.social & Kevin Johnston
🫵Practice to share? Points to raise? Sign up to lead a conversation forms.gle/JGaoVUN76baa...
🫵Interested in connecting with like-minded educators? 🆓 bit.ly/PedagooPerth
🫵Practice to share? Points to raise? Sign up to lead a conversation forms.gle/JGaoVUN76baa...
🫵Interested in connecting with like-minded educators? 🆓 bit.ly/PedagooPerth
January 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
First up #PedagooPerth 22/02 @ Bertha Park HS in Perth🏴 hosted by @ccouser.bsky.social @ciaracreative.bsky.social & Kevin Johnston
🫵Practice to share? Points to raise? Sign up to lead a conversation forms.gle/JGaoVUN76baa...
🫵Interested in connecting with like-minded educators? 🆓 bit.ly/PedagooPerth
🫵Practice to share? Points to raise? Sign up to lead a conversation forms.gle/JGaoVUN76baa...
🫵Interested in connecting with like-minded educators? 🆓 bit.ly/PedagooPerth
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#Pedagoo is a sharing space for educators with 35K+ followers across multiple social media platforms
❓Pedagoo? Because pedagogy is messy!
3️⃣in-person events in 🏴 #ByTeachersForTeachers in Spring 2025
🗣️☕️🧁Expect engaging discussions & interesting practice with like-minded folk
🆓🎟️Get involved #IYKYK
❓Pedagoo? Because pedagogy is messy!
3️⃣in-person events in 🏴 #ByTeachersForTeachers in Spring 2025
🗣️☕️🧁Expect engaging discussions & interesting practice with like-minded folk
🆓🎟️Get involved #IYKYK
January 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
#Pedagoo is a sharing space for educators with 35K+ followers across multiple social media platforms
❓Pedagoo? Because pedagogy is messy!
3️⃣in-person events in 🏴 #ByTeachersForTeachers in Spring 2025
🗣️☕️🧁Expect engaging discussions & interesting practice with like-minded folk
🆓🎟️Get involved #IYKYK
❓Pedagoo? Because pedagogy is messy!
3️⃣in-person events in 🏴 #ByTeachersForTeachers in Spring 2025
🗣️☕️🧁Expect engaging discussions & interesting practice with like-minded folk
🆓🎟️Get involved #IYKYK
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First #PractitionerEnquiryTotW repost of Day 1 of the 5 days of Practitioner Enquiry: Learning from challenge (from this time last year). Repost/like if this strikes a cord and is useful to beat the algorithm (although bear with me as its not the easiest to transfer from bird site)
December 16, 2024 at 9:49 AM
First #PractitionerEnquiryTotW repost of Day 1 of the 5 days of Practitioner Enquiry: Learning from challenge (from this time last year). Repost/like if this strikes a cord and is useful to beat the algorithm (although bear with me as its not the easiest to transfer from bird site)
I love that moment when you are reading a book and suddenly there, in the middle of the sentence, is a word you’ve never seen before. For me today that word was foehn, as in a foehn wind and I had the pleasure of looking it up and learning more…delighted that there were also diagrams 😃
December 15, 2024 at 6:09 PM
I love that moment when you are reading a book and suddenly there, in the middle of the sentence, is a word you’ve never seen before. For me today that word was foehn, as in a foehn wind and I had the pleasure of looking it up and learning more…delighted that there were also diagrams 😃
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Middle schooler finds novel compound in goose poop. Scientists say it may fight cancer: "These middle schoolers became 'bonafide biomedical scientists,' thanks to a STEM program led by Professor Brian Murphy at the University of Illinois at Chicago."
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/can...
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/can...
Middle school student finds cancer-fighting compound in goose poop, sparks antibiotic research
A middle school student in a STEM program in Chicago led scientists to study a cancer-fighting compound — found in goose droppings.
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December 5, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Middle schooler finds novel compound in goose poop. Scientists say it may fight cancer: "These middle schoolers became 'bonafide biomedical scientists,' thanks to a STEM program led by Professor Brian Murphy at the University of Illinois at Chicago."
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/can...
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/can...
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Exciting day collaborating with colleagues from across multiple sectors as part of the Education Scotland Curriculum Improvement Cycle for the Sciences - sharing views and shaping Scotland's science curriculum for the future. Link to today's Padlet: padlet.com/margaretcraw...
#SciencesCIC
#SciencesCIC
November 28, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Exciting day collaborating with colleagues from across multiple sectors as part of the Education Scotland Curriculum Improvement Cycle for the Sciences - sharing views and shaping Scotland's science curriculum for the future. Link to today's Padlet: padlet.com/margaretcraw...
#SciencesCIC
#SciencesCIC
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We are actively seeking diversity in knowledge, ideas and experiences through engagement with and contributions from underrepresented groups. Please join our #SERA_Ethics network. www.sera.ac.uk
November 17, 2024 at 9:10 PM
We are actively seeking diversity in knowledge, ideas and experiences through engagement with and contributions from underrepresented groups. Please join our #SERA_Ethics network. www.sera.ac.uk
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Seeing as the focus in many conversations is on curriculum, here are a few of my thoughts on my latest blog post.
thinkingflexibly.com/2024/11/23/t...
thinkingflexibly.com/2024/11/23/t...
The liminal curriculum
One of the parts of curriculum design that often doesn’t get enough airtime is empty space. If a curriculum design is 100% full, and designed to fill every possible lesson, minute or moment then th…
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November 23, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Seeing as the focus in many conversations is on curriculum, here are a few of my thoughts on my latest blog post.
thinkingflexibly.com/2024/11/23/t...
thinkingflexibly.com/2024/11/23/t...
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📢 “A school curriculum which does not reflect diversity or engage with topics of equality and representation presents an information vacuum which is being filled by online influencers who are often equipping young people with inaccurate, and sometimes extremist, information.”
LGBT Inclusive Education is important - here's why - Time for Inclusive Education
Time For Inclusive Education
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November 14, 2024 at 1:12 PM
📢 “A school curriculum which does not reflect diversity or engage with topics of equality and representation presents an information vacuum which is being filled by online influencers who are often equipping young people with inaccurate, and sometimes extremist, information.”
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***Looking for Social Studies teachers in Scotland***
Please can you complete this survey for an S6 pupil I am supporting, focusing on how heritage/identity is taught in Social subjects.
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Please can you complete this survey for an S6 pupil I am supporting, focusing on how heritage/identity is taught in Social subjects.
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Microsoft Forms
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November 21, 2024 at 10:24 AM
***Looking for Social Studies teachers in Scotland***
Please can you complete this survey for an S6 pupil I am supporting, focusing on how heritage/identity is taught in Social subjects.
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Please can you complete this survey for an S6 pupil I am supporting, focusing on how heritage/identity is taught in Social subjects.
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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A really worthwhile read and a great starting point for professional discussion, particularly for those working with under 3s. It highlights the pedagogical importance of care routines, including enacting rights and agency and making the most of literacy opportunities. #BeingMe #earlyyears #EYFS
Are you a literacy advocate for babies and young children? Check out this great article by Dr Karen Boardman:
www.sirenfilms.co.uk/are-you-a-li...
#earlyyears #literacy #eymatters #pedagogy #agency
#earlyemergence #emergentliteracy
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#earlyyears #literacy #eymatters #pedagogy #agency
#earlyemergence #emergentliteracy
Are you a literacy advocate for babies and young children?
Care routines are crucial literacy opportunities and ought not to be perceived as rushed and necessary... it is critical that we carefully consider (and perhaps reconsider in some instances) how these...
www.sirenfilms.co.uk
November 21, 2024 at 11:29 AM
A really worthwhile read and a great starting point for professional discussion, particularly for those working with under 3s. It highlights the pedagogical importance of care routines, including enacting rights and agency and making the most of literacy opportunities. #BeingMe #earlyyears #EYFS
ES Coaching session this week focussed on listening and questioning and then this pops up! Had to share 😃
What great listeners ACTUALLY do. How are your supporting pupils with these different levels of learning?
www.impact.wales
www.impact.wales
November 21, 2024 at 7:06 PM
ES Coaching session this week focussed on listening and questioning and then this pops up! Had to share 😃
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Work has now begun on the Curriculum Improvement Cycle.
As part of our commitment to keeping you updated on the progress being made last week we published a discussion paper with findings from the pilot curriculum reviews work in 23/24.
👉ow.ly/zAtv50U6QMO
As part of our commitment to keeping you updated on the progress being made last week we published a discussion paper with findings from the pilot curriculum reviews work in 23/24.
👉ow.ly/zAtv50U6QMO
November 19, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Work has now begun on the Curriculum Improvement Cycle.
As part of our commitment to keeping you updated on the progress being made last week we published a discussion paper with findings from the pilot curriculum reviews work in 23/24.
👉ow.ly/zAtv50U6QMO
As part of our commitment to keeping you updated on the progress being made last week we published a discussion paper with findings from the pilot curriculum reviews work in 23/24.
👉ow.ly/zAtv50U6QMO
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Second piece for the Education Scotland LinkedIN Page on "Designing a Model for Curriculum Review in Scotland: Part 2" -
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Designing a Model for Curriculum Review in Scotland: Part 2
[Cross posted on the Education Scotland LinkedIN Page] One of the key recommendations from the report Curriculum for Excellence: Into the Future (OECD, 2021) was that Scotland should: “Develop a syste...
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November 20, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Second piece for the Education Scotland LinkedIN Page on "Designing a Model for Curriculum Review in Scotland: Part 2" -
www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...
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Last week we launched the new Education Scotland Curriculum Improvement Cycle (CIC) News Bulletin.
We'll issue this every term to let you know what's new and to share the latest on what to read, what to listen to, what to watch and how you can get involved.
Sign up 👉 ow.ly/zuyh50U9Ot6
We'll issue this every term to let you know what's new and to share the latest on what to read, what to listen to, what to watch and how you can get involved.
Sign up 👉 ow.ly/zuyh50U9Ot6
November 20, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Last week we launched the new Education Scotland Curriculum Improvement Cycle (CIC) News Bulletin.
We'll issue this every term to let you know what's new and to share the latest on what to read, what to listen to, what to watch and how you can get involved.
Sign up 👉 ow.ly/zuyh50U9Ot6
We'll issue this every term to let you know what's new and to share the latest on what to read, what to listen to, what to watch and how you can get involved.
Sign up 👉 ow.ly/zuyh50U9Ot6
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Recent article for Education Scotland LinkedIN Page - Designing a Model for Curriculum Review in Scotland: Part 1
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Designing a Model for Curriculum Review in Scotland: Part 1
[Cross posted on the Education Scotland LinkedIN Page.] One of the key recommendations in Curriculum for Excellence: Into the Future (OECD, 2021) was that Scotland should: “Develop a systematic approa...
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November 19, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Recent article for Education Scotland LinkedIN Page - Designing a Model for Curriculum Review in Scotland: Part 1
www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...