Scot Ferns Jiang O’Neill LeitrimComhairle na nÓg Cork City Comhairle na nÓg Luana Romila Dylan Gordon Fingal Comhairle na nÓg Kilkenny Comhairle na nÓg Cormac Brady Michael Lough Cavan Comhairle na nÓg Roscommon Comhairle na nÓg Ross Beatty Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown Comhairle na nÓg 1
Comhairle na nÓg National Executive & Equality in Schools 2
Dáil na nÓg 2017 workshop Five settings discussed in relation to Equality • SCHOOL • HOME & COMMUNITY • ONLINE • PUBLIC SERVICES • SPORT & LEISURE 3
EQUALITY IN SCHOOL • Most voted on setting at Dáil na nÓg 2017 • ‘Equality in School’ = basis of the work of the Comhairle na nÓg National Executive 2018-19 4
Dáil na nÓg 2017 workshop report Key Equality Is Issues fr from th the Dáil il na na nÓg workshop report • Unequal treatment of students by teachers • School uniform and appearance issues • Gender equality – subject choices • LGBTI Equality issues • Issues relating to curriculum • Religious equality issues • Irish language equality issues 5
Dáil na nÓg workshop report: topics relating to Equality in Schools Access for all • • Individuality • Student Voice • Equality training for teachers • LGBTI • Equal spread of resources • Gender Equality • Cultural Equality 6
Our focus for 2018-19 ❑ Individuality Develop a campaign ❑ Student Voice Develop a set of guidelines for schools 7
Our Steering Committee • Department of Education and Skills • Senior Inspector, Department of Education & Skills • Head of Participation, Ombudsman for Children’s Office • Secretariat of Secondary Schools • Association of Community and Comprehensive Schools • Representative from School of Education, University College Cork • ISSU (Irish Secondary Schools Union • School teachers and school principals 8
Role of the steering committee To ensure we: • have access to appropriate advice and support • are formally connected to decision- makers and key stakeholders in relation to our topic and • have the opportunity to influence decision-making that will affect young people nationally 9
Guidelines for Student Voice: Their purpose • To create an effective partnership between students, teachers and school management • To provide equal opportunity for individual student voice to be heard and recognised • To sustain and embed a fairly elected student council 10
Working wit ith Student Councils • The best place to start to work on Student Voice in schools • Better to work with what is currently in existence and to build on the structures already there • However vast improvements are needed • Student Councils need to be revived and revolutionised. 11
Guid idelines on Student Voic ice: What they will look like ❑ Not a passive document - a web- based resource ❑ Online interactive toolkit 12
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Individuality in schools Our campaign Call to Action ❑ Fair and universal school rules ❑ For schools to allow more individuality in student appearance 14
What we’d like to see: • Same uniform rules would apply to both boys and girls – more gender-neutral options • Allow for more self-expression • Allow for more diverse and less strict uniform codes that take into account student’s cultural and religious beliefs • A more accepting environment for students to develop as individuals Our key message: ‘Our appearance has nothing to do with the way we learn’ 15
Social media campaign #TeachMeAsMe ❑ Video campaign with a competition element ❑ Open to individuals or schools What individuality means to you What a school looks like when it has an open atmosphere What your school has done to promote it What it could do to better it ❑ Section on Individuality in the toolkit ❑ National Executive plan to produce a sample video to kick start the campaign ❑ Launch event later this year 16
OUR ASKS: Student Voice Guidelines • To support us in our Student Voice topic and in the rolling out of our Guidelines Toolkit. • To ask your colleagues in the Dept of Education and Skills to take on the Guidelines and to make sure they are implemented in schools nationwide. • Encourage your Education colleagues to take ownership of the Toolkit, making sure that the guidelines have long-term sustainability and become embedded in schools, to continue long after our term finishes in late 2019. 17
OUR ASKS: Individuality campaign • To ask for your support by becoming an Ambassador for our campaign. • To be the public face of the #TeachMeAsMe campaign • To help us to promote it on social media & to gain good publicity 18
OUR WISH: • To make school a fairer and more inclusive place for all with a culture of valuing the voices of young people 19
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING 20
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