Tara Ćirić 🍉
taraciric.bsky.social
Tara Ćirić 🍉
@taraciric.bsky.social
✨Almost Dr. ✨ researching schooling and education with children and young people in residential care. Funded by @Researchirl at @MU_Education

🥊Chair of @PWO_MU

💅All opinions unfortunately my own 💅
Tusla is in perpetual crisis.

Researchers and advocacy groups have been making the same recommendations for over a decade.

As new Minister for Children, Norma Foley has a chance to make history by simply following the recommendations previous governments have sat on...
February 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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McEntee to push ahead with €9m smartphone pouches plan despite study casting doubt over their merits
McEntee to push ahead with €9m smartphone pouches plan despite study casting doubt over their merits
New research found banning phones in schools is not linked to pupils getting higher grades or having better mental health
www.irishtimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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My paper with @taraciric.bsky.social on School Attendance

Ensuring that students are listened to, believed, and empowered to actively participate in shaping their educational experiences, we can create successful educational pathways for ALL students

www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
Frontiers | Compassion, collaboration and cultural-responsiveness: insights on promoting successful pathways through education for students who face school attendance barriers
www.frontiersin.org
December 23, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Interesting that AI was partially at fault for not allowing continuous assessment but now that it's in service of the Leaving Cert it's permissible
December 5, 2024 at 7:11 AM
If the State removes children from their families there is an assumption that they can do better. At the very least to provide a safe place to live.

And that's just not the case for so many children in care right now.
December 5, 2024 at 7:06 AM
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12,722 children are now overdue an assessment of need. Some of us 'completed' the assessment a year ago and still await a service statement. We have nothing. I shared Doireann's story on @newstalkfm.bsky.social in an attempt to illustrate that a complete assessment is just the first step. What then?
12,722 children are overdue an assessment of need
The Pat Kenny Show Highlights · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Crisis also breeds crisis as we put out fires rather than creating long term sustainable futures...
I asked teachers to share the "opportunities" the supply crisis has created.

➡️ Vulnerable chicken without support
➡️ "Unqualified teachers"
➡️ Super size classes

This impacts EVERY child.

Stop the gaslighting @fiannafailparty.bsky.social & listen. This is a CRISIS, in any language.

#EdChatIE
November 27, 2024 at 7:50 AM