Education Scotland podcast

Leadership+ Wellbeing podcast series. Episode 3: Avoiding Burnout and tacking the wins

Join us for this third and final podcast with Dr Karen Edge, Dean of Education at Yorkville University, Ontario, and the PLL team at Education Scotland. Rona and Lesley from the Leadership+ series chat to Karen about planning and prioritising strategic change over constant administration tasks, maintaining wellbeing, avoiding burnout, and celebrating the successes in the session that’s coming to a close. Visit our Leadership + webpages for more resources from the series.

The Curriculum Improvement Cycle – Focus on Languages

Education Scotland is leading a systematic review of the Scottish curriculum called the Curriculum Improvement Cycle. This podcast episode focuses on Languages. Listen as Education Scotland’s Graeme Wallace, Robert Kirk and Andrew McCulloch discuss the work so far. Visit our Curriculum Improvement Cycle blog to find out more.

The Curriculum Improvement Cycle – Focus on Religious Education in Roman Catholic Schools

Education Scotland is leading a systematic review of the Scottish curriculum called the Curriculum Improvement Cycle. This podcast episode focuses on Religious Education in Roman Catholic Schools (RERC). Listen as Education Scotland’s Graeme Wallace and Sarah Gallacher discuss the work so far, and Archbishop Nolan, Bishop President for Education in Catholic schools, and Christine Downey, Headteacher of St Luke’s High School, discuss the importance of RERC. Visit our Curriculum Improvement Cycle blog to find out more.

Leadership+ Wellbeing podcast series. Episode 2: Relationships, nurture and belonging

Join Rona Grant and Lesley Walker from the Professional Learning and Leadership team as they chat with Dr Karen Edge from the Leadership+ webinar series. This is the second in a set of three podcasts on topics related to wellbeing, with questions coming from education leaders who have been part of our leadership programmes in the last few years. This podcast focuses on building and maintaining caring relationships, how to nurture wellbeing and belonging in teams, and the magic of middle leaders when it comes to leading change.

The Curriculum Improvement Cycle – Focus on Opportunities for Personal Achievement

Education Scotland is leading a systematic review of the Scottish curriculum called the Curriculum Improvement Cycle. This podcast episode focuses on opportunities for personal achievement. Listen as Education Scotland’s Graeme Wallace and Nicola Crawford provide an insight into this work so far. Visit our Curriculum Improvement Cycle blog to find out more.
 

Leadership+ Wellbeing podcast series. Episode 1: Balancing your wellbeing with being a leader.

Dr Karen Edge, Dean of Education at Yorkville University, Ontario, Canada, is known for her ability to fuse theory, practice and humour with memorable take-home messages and evidence-driven tools. Join Karen as she brings her wellbeing wisdom to this first in a series of three special podcasts for the Leadership+ series. Lesley Walker and Rona Grant from the Professional Learning and Leadership team bring the questions from education leaders as they engage Karen in a wide-ranging discussion about the challenge of combining education leadership with staying mentally and physically well.

Attendance Matters at Brunstane Primary School with Chris McMillan, Headteacher

The Curriculum Improvement Cycle – Focus on Interdisciplinary Learning

Education Scotland is leading a systematic review of the Scottish curriculum called the Curriculum Improvement Cycle. This podcast episode looks at Interdisciplinary Learning and how it’s being strengthened through the Curriculum Improvement Cycle. Education Scotland’s Leigh Watson is joined by Jenny Mackay, Headteacher at Sorn Primary School in East Ayrshire, and Andrew Baxby, Secondary Depute Headteacher currently working in the Quality Improvement team at Falkirk Council. Listen as they explore what’s been emerging from this work so far and how the evolved technical framework can support schools to design learning that is relevant, connected and meaningful. Visit our Curriculum Improvement Cycle blog to find out more.

The Curriculum Improvement Cycle – Focus on Technologies

Education Scotland is leading a systematic review of the Scottish curriculum called the Curriculum Improvement Cycle. The focus of this podcast episode is the Curriculum Improvement Cycle for Technologies. Listen as Lise Mccaferry, Education Scotland’s Interim Head of Learning, Teaching and Assessment, discusses the progress of the work so far with Laura Kupsch and Caroline McFarlane, National Advisers for Technologies at Education Scotland. Visit our Curriculum Improvement Cycle blog to find out more.

The Curriculum Improvement Cycle – Focus on Expressive Arts

Education Scotland is leading a systematic review of the Scottish curriculum called the Curriculum Improvement Cycle. In this podcast Education Scotland’s Andrew Creamer discusses the progress of the work so far with our National Advisors for Expressive Arts, Scott McCorquodale and Caroline Dickov. Read more about this on our Curriculum Improvement Cycle blog.