Policy Scotland and the Network for Social and Educational Equity (NSEE), convened this ICSEI network focusing on how educational systems respond to significant crises and how the crises impact on education systems, learning, health and wellbeing of practitioners, children, young people and their families.

Initial network activity focuses on the response to and impact of COVID-19. The role and purpose of the Crisis Response in Education Network is to stimulate research and curate knowledge, expertise and emerging practice around educational system responses to crises with the aim of mitigating educational inequity and promoting educational equity within these situations.

Given the current context, this network focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic with the expectation to support coordinate global responses that promote the effectiveness and improvement of learning, health and wellbeing of practitioners, children, young people and their families.

New Policy Scotland paper: COVID-19: do we need to re-imagine the purpose of school inspections?

Crisis Response in Education Network, Education, Children and Families, International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI), Professor Carmen Montecinos, Professor Chris Chapman, Professor Melanie Ehren, Research report, Think piece2 Comments

As regular school inspections have stopped in many countries, and its not ‘business as usual’, this paper asks should we ‘inspect’ schools, and if so, for what purpose?