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Stand up for Quality Education Campaign
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The Stand Up for Quality Education campaign continues, and we have recently been speaking with COSLA, Education Scotland and parents’ representatives. A campaign briefing to support local activity around ASN provision has been issued to Local Associations to help press forward on the campaign for greater resourcing of ASN provision.
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Action for Reps: Please work with your EIS Local Association to share information about violence and aggression. Please engage with branch colleagues and progress the school level recommendations of our national survey report on violence and aggression.
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A key theme of the Stand Up for Quality Education campaign is workload. The EIS has arranged for an independent research team from three universities to look at teacher workload and will be asking teachers for information about the work that they do during the week beginning 4th March 2024.
Action for Reps: Please encourage as many members as possible to engage with the workload diary when it is published.
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EIS FELA members have been called out on national strike action on 29th February 2024, in pursuit of their pay claim. The College sector is part of the public sector, and FE lecturers have had a pay offer that is less than the Scottish Government’s public sector pay policy. FE college lecturers have not had a pay increase since August 2021.
Action for Reps: Please send messages of support to your nearest College FELA Branch.
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EIS ULA Annual Conference
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The EIS ULA will be having its Annual Conference on Wednesday 20th March at the Glasgow Grand Central Hotel.
EIS ULA branches have been asked to nominate and send delegates. The key speaker is Professor Mairead Pratschke, Chair of Digital Education at the University of Manchester, she will be speaking on AI and we will be running workshops.
EIS ULA Reps are encouraged to attend this conference. All members of EIS ULA are invited to attend the annual conference, please register your place with Sonia Leal SLeal@eis.org.uk.
Action for Reps: Please consider attending the conference and publicise the details to all ULA members in your branch and encourage them to participate in the event.
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We support and train members to become school-based EIS Representatives, including Health & Safety and Equalities Reps. The EIS works with college tutors to deliver TUC accredited Reps’ training. Future training course dates will be published shortly. If you want to learn more, or have recently taken over as a new Rep then please explore our courses.
Action for Reps: If you are a Rep who wishes to attend training, please contact your LA Secretary to apply for an EIS training course.
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Reach out to New Teachers and Probationer Teachers in your School
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Unions are strongest when we have as many members as possible and when they are engaged. Please reach out to any new teachers in your school and talk to them about EIS membership. Please also promote EIS membership with any probationer teacher; EIS membership is free for probationers.
Action for Reps: Reach out and talk with new staff and probationers.
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Engagement with Local Association and EIS Organisers
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It is important for EIS Reps to have two-way communications with their Local Association – to share what is happening in their school and to hear what is happening at the local authority level.
We also have a team of EIS Organisers that support Local Associations and who visit branches to discuss our latest campaigns, local campaign issues and to support Reps.
Action for Reps: Please engage with your Local Association Secretary and attend LA meetings if you can. Please reach out to your local EIS Organiser to attend a branch meeting or if you want support as a Rep.
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The Sheku Bayoh Inquiry restarted on Tuesday, 6th February and General Secretary Andrea Bradley spoke at the Vigil outside Capitol House. The EIS continues to stand with the wider trade union movement in supporting Sheku’s family in their ongoing campaign for justice. Please find information below from the Justice for Sheku campaign, passed on by the STUC.
If you plan to attend inquiry hearings, you must contact the inquiry to do so.
Action for Reps: Please highlight the campaign to members, including the campaign film.
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A recent EIS survey on LGBT discrimination in educational establishments, found a fifth of LGBT respondents were not ‘out’ to anyone at their workplace. All members should feel safe, respected, and included in their workplace, and LGBT staff groups can be conducive to this. On 26th January, EIS Council expressed its full support for members who wish to establish LGBT staff groups within their establishments for the purposes of support and solidarity.
Action for Reps: Please highlight the Power of LGBT Inclusive Education booklet to members and consider ways of showing support for the establishment of an LGBT staff group in your school.
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TIE Teachers’ Gathering 2024
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In May, TIE (Time for Inclusive Education) is hosting its third annual Teachers' Gathering: a professional learning event and networking opportunity for teachers and school staff who are advancing LGBT Inclusive Education, or keen to get started.
The free event will take place in Glasgow (venue tbc) on Saturday 18th May, 10am - 4pm and is open to all primary and secondary teachers. Click here for further details.
TIE will contact registrants directly with further information following the closing date of 28th February. Please note that places are limited and will be allocated to ensure a diversity of perspectives.
Action for Reps: Please highlight to members.
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Stories of Section 2A – EIS LGBT History Month Event
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Today, Scotland is the first country in the world to commit to a national rollout of LGBT Inclusive Education, but it was only just over 20 years ago that a piece of public sector legislation prohibited teaching about LGBT lives and relationships in schools. What can we learn from the past, to take LGBT Inclusive Education forward in the present?
Join us on Thursday 22 February 2024, from 6pm-8pm for an online (Teams) panel discussion and Q&A about the impact of Section 2A.
Action for Reps: Please promote widely, sharing the website link here.
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