From November, the Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT) will be celebrating two decades of supporting teachers to provide high quality citizenship education.
Today’s GCSE results are a tribute to the resilience of teachers and pupils during COVID-19 pandemic. In classrooms across the country, teachers have stepped up under immense pressure to serve the latest cohort of pupils.
ACT is absolutely delighted to be joining over 200 organisations as part of the Fair Education Alliance to work together for fairer education. We are grateful to Sam Butters and Gina Cicerone, Co-CEOs for their warm welcome to ACT and all our teachers.
Last week ACT submitted to the call for evidence by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. Our submission focussed on the role of citizenship education in relation to one question:
How should the school curriculum adapt in response to the ethnic diversity of the country?
Today we are sharing our response which includes four recommendations:
We are busy putting the final touches to our CPD and training offer for the autumn term. We will be sending out more information to members very soon.
You can join our first event - a Virtual Staffroom on 26 August from 1pm. Sign up here
Its also the final chance to take advantage of our FREE to new teachers membership offer which closes on 1 September 2020. If you are not yet a member don't miss out.