News & Blogs: professional learning

Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Connect session #15

Mon 15th January 2024 -

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.


Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Connect session #14

Fri 5th January 2024 -

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.


Live at COP28

Wed 18th October 2023 -

We’re delighted to be running our ‘Live at the COP’ MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) once again. Since its first iteration in 2021 for COP26, over 10,000 people from over 160 countries have taken part in this collaborative, facilitated learning opportunity. The course will run during the United Nations COP28 Climate Change Conference which takes place in the United Arab Emirates between 30 November to 14 December.


Education for Sustainable Development Topic Support Network: Becoming nature and climate confident

Wed 18th October 2023 -

We welcome all staff in further and higher education with an interest in learning and teaching to the November 2023 Education for Sustainable Development Topic Support Network (ESD TSN), delivered… [read more]


Bringing the STEM curriculum to life: learning for a sustainable world

Mon 7th August 2023 -

Join us on an interactive, collaborative facilitated online learning journey that will help you to plan for, weave together and embed Learning for Sustainability (LfS) across your everyday STEM practice; inspiring real-life, relevant, meaningful and transformative learning about the big issues that shape our world. Open to senior leadership teams, teachers, and early years practitioners from local authority-funded 3-18 yrs settings within the South West and South East Regional Improvement Collaboratives.


Supporting Scotland’s new Learning for Sustainability Action Plan

Mon 7th August 2023 - Blog Posts, Communities, Initial Teacher Education, LfS Scotland Updates, News, Policy Advice and Responses, Schools and early learning & childcare settings, Young people

We are creating a suite of online opportunities for educators to find out more about the Plan and explore and discuss the opportunities it offers them and their learners. Read on to view more details and reserve your FREE places.


Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Connect session #13

Mon 24th July 2023 -

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.


Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Connect session #12

Mon 24th July 2023 -

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.


Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Connect session #11: celebrating Scotland’s new Learning for Sustainability Action Plan

Mon 24th July 2023 -

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.


Welcoming the new national Learning for Sustainability Action Plan

Mon 26th June 2023 - Blog Posts, Communities, Further and Higher Education, Initial Teacher Education, News, Policy Advice and Responses, Schools and early learning & childcare settings, Sustainable Development Goals, Young people

We’re delighted to welcome Scotland’s refreshed national Learning for Sustainability (LfS) Action Plan: ‘Target 2030: a movement for people, planet and prosperity, which was launched on 23rd June at Grove Academy in Dundee by Jenny Gilruth MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills.