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National College research urges school
leaders to lead for a sustainable future
Headteachers are being urged to embed sustainability in their schools in a call for a new style
of leadership within education.
T
he call for school leaders to take radical action is be very challenging with huge implications. than just another initiative or agenda to follow. It
made by Jonathon Porritt CBE and Professor To address this challenge they call for a new style calls on leaders of schools and children’s centres to
David Hopkins in a paper published on 7th of leadership in education - one grounded in moral take responsibility for moving this agenda forward
December by the National College for the purpose, working with the school and its in their own areas and to work with their peers to
Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services. community to make a reality of sustainability so that change the system from within - we call this system
The paper is supported by a piece of research by children actively learn about what needs to be leadership and we know there’s an appetite for
the Institute of Education and Forum for the Future, different if we are to survive. This means making change.”
also commissioned by the National College, sustainability integral to all aspects of education, The research found that when school leaders
involving a study of more than 50 schools who are including the curriculum and organisational design embrace sustainability it delivers real benefits. In the
leading the way in developing sustainability in their – changes which only school leaders can achieve. research schools sustainability underpins the vision,
school and wider community. “Education is uniquely placed to make a significant permeates every aspect of the school, and helps
The research findings, which coincide with the contribution to a sustainable future for every child, raise achievement and attainment.
recent Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, and it has the responsibility to make the The 56 schools involved with this research –
identify seven characteristics of sustainable schools, difference,” the paper says. selected because they are currently leading the
many of which bring key benefits to pupils, and the Toby Salt, Deputy Chief Executive of the way in terms of sustainability - were found to have
leadership qualities required by school leaders to National College for Leadership of Schools and gone beyond typical energy saving measures.
develop and embed sustainability within their Children’s Services, said: “Taken together these They had embedded sustainability into the
school. publications make a powerful case for school curriculum and ethos of the school and integrated
In their paper - Every Child’s Future: Leading the leaders to put sustainability at the heart of sustainability with other educational priorities such
Way - Porritt, Founder Director of Forum for the everything they do. They address a real priority for as Every Child Matters and healthy schools. Many
Future, and Hopkins argue that the prospects for leadership, as the future generation that can make schools have also found that pupils themselves are
children and young people entering education a difference is in our hands right now. If we are not passionate and active in driving sustainability
today - against a backdrop of population growth, leading for a sustainable future, what are we agendas.
an increase in consumption of natural resources, leading for?
climate change and water shortages - is going to “This approach offers something that is bigger trianglertwww.nationalcollege.org.uk/npqh
Young Brits to illustrate a
new picture of prejudice
T
he Equality and Human
Rights Commission is
asking young Britons to
express their vision of a world
free from prejudice as it
launches Young Brits at Art
2010 in Liverpool today.
The national art award
invites 11-19 year olds to
explore their beliefs, opinions
and judgments by asking:
“What would the world look
like if we lived without
prejudice?”
After the success of the
first year of the awards in
2009, Young Brits at Art 2010 includes new categories such as photography,
sculpture and motion animation, as well as its previous sections for painting
and drawing.
National curriculum teaching packs are available to guide schools, pupil
referral units, religious groups and other organisations that wish to explore
the meaning of equality and human rights through art. Young people can
also develop their own artwork and enter independently.
How entrants choose to define prejudice is up to them and there will be
45 workshops held across Britain by arts professionals to support those
taking part.
All the winners and shortlisted entries will be exhibited in London in the
Summer.
trianglertwww.equalityhumanrights.com/art
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Visit NEC at the BETT Show
Stand E90
December 2009
Grand Hall Olympia, 13-16 January 2010
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