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An ASTI activist group

[ASTI @astiunion]

Health and safety must be the priority for re-opening schools https://t.co/ptG4qAtrQw

[Inside Our Schools Podcast @SchoolsInside]

Latest episode available now. 👇🏼👇🏼 https://t.co/IgciAWqUAn

[Inside Our Schools Podcast @SchoolsInside]

The big question...Is the Leaving Cert for purpose?? Latest episode, Out Now. A big thank you to @RobertChaney and @mwal77 for your contributions.👇🏼👇🏼 https://t.co/EKQDK4hIq5

[Fightback @A_Fightback]

This will be news to many teachers...

[carlobrien @carlobrien]

Teachers support spreading Leaving Cert assessment over two-year period
via @IrishTimes
https://t.co/mLMBh84Fjy

[Inside Our Schools Podcast @SchoolsInside]

Return to School 2021. The 1st Episode of the new season is out now. https://t.co/DXFUo3ER2N Massive thank you to @TJRyan_77 @oliveblogs @checian and @DrMaireadDB for their excellent and insightful contributions.

[Inside Our Schools Podcast @SchoolsInside]

Such an important episode. They are changing education for the worse and basing it on false promises, myths and making commodities of schools. And buying into the New JC is the beginning of that process. Please retweet. https://t.co/xE7vRYvrBD

[Fightback @A_Fightback]

Just in time.

[Inside Our Schools Podcast @SchoolsInside]

Is 'Education' now about ticking boxes to provide obedient workers for the market place? And what is happening to teacher and student autonomy? @GMooneySimmie, @KMUBarry and @mwal77 discuss these questions and more in episode #14. https://t.co/xE7vRYvrBD

[Inside Our Schools Podcast @SchoolsInside]

On tonight’s podcast, The brilliant @GMooneySimmie joins us to discuss the worrying shift away from a sound knowledge based curriculum to a debunked outcomes/skills based education. @GMooneySimmie is a Senior lecturer and Deputy Head @SchoolOfEd_UL

[Inside Our Schools Podcast @SchoolsInside]

Well done to @INTOnews and @TUIunion who both issued statements today in support of the teachers, children and people of Palestine 🇵🇸✊🏼

[Andrew Phelan @phelanfit]

Well done @INTOnews 👏🏻👏🏻✊🏼

[Fightback @A_Fightback]

@mjoran @TUIunion @astiunion You mean the kind of solidarity where a union doesn't poach another's members? And voices support when the other is on ind action for equal pay? Agree completely. Just that it didn't happen. Ltd solidarity on JC partly cause of bureaucracy, shouldn't pretend it came from nowhere.

[Fightback @A_Fightback]

Yes, but didn't happen by accident. Some unions supported for example the Junior Cycle, which has, as anticipated and intended, bureaucratised teaching and learning.

[Teachers' Union Ire. @TUIunion]

Paperwork regularly deflects from teaching, according to survey of 1,000+ teachers. Overwhelming majority believe that bureaucratic duties have increased since they commenced their career.

[Fightback @A_Fightback]

If @astiunion hadn't fought for the retention of the State exam, its absence would have been a permanent feature of the system based on 'A Framework for Junior Cycle' (DES, 2012). Yet this was wanted by many supporters of Junior Cycle.

[JOE.ie @JOEdotie]

“I just wish people would listen to teachers."

“If we complain, it's because we want the best for our students.”

In Part 5 of our series on a year coping with Covid, teacher @ThereseGlennon discusses how she faced the challenges for her and her students in the last 12 months

[Craig Skerritt @CraigSkerritt]

Getting ready to present "School autonomy and the surveillance of teachers" at #SAIConf2021

Looking at the shift from panoptic to post-panoptic surveillance. Full paper available in International Journal of Leadership in Education: https://t.co/eaW1Qo9LQ6

@Soc_Assoc_Ire @DCU

[Paul Murphy 🇵🇸 @paulmurphy_TD]

Workers rights are essential - PBP launch Trade Union Recognition Bill https://t.co/jllKhroUXN

[ASTI @astiunion]

Congratulations to Miriam Duggan who has been elected Vice-President of the ASTI.

Miriam is a teacher in Rosmini Community School and has previously represented the Dublin North 1 Branch on Standing Committee.

[Inside Our Schools Podcast @SchoolsInside]

Tomorrow night we record episode #13 .....POSTS OF RESPONSIBILITY. We look at the cuts made, the change in criteria, the knock on effects of these changes but also related pension changes and examine the effect ‘distributed leadership’ has on school staffroom dynamics.

[Inside Our Schools Podcast @SchoolsInside]

Final reminder of this weeks podcast if you haven’t listened yet. Excellent analysis of the issues SNAs face in our schools and with Dept. Featuring @lindaosull88 and @cags_mcs. Listen on Apple/Spotify etc or click👉🏼 https://t.co/HKB2HL5Bh8