1. Here’s a recent Ipsos report on attitudes to climate change in 33 countries around the world https://resources.ipsos.com/rs/297-CXJ-795/images/Earth%20Day%202024%20Global%20Report.pdf

LinkedIn is usually a fairly polite, even staid environment but the abuse that Kelly Beaver received – from people who believe the earth is flat? – for posting this report was astonishing. PDF below.

2. As promised last week, here’s the other recordings in the IH World Global voices on nurturing inclusive practice series:

Busting Myths of Autism in the EFL Classroom with Sisi Rabenstein https://youtu.be/ZphSSiV86tQ?feature=shared

The Unpublished: Are We Editing LGBTQ+ Identities Out of the Classroom? with Giovanni Licata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoutwXtn3y8

How to Handle Hot Moments in (and out) of the Classroom with Verónica Higareda and Reena Mistry https://youtu.be/zEDtJqhnpNk?feature=shared

Deconstructing EDIB: What, why, and how? with Amina Douidi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEv1MgJfKwM

3. The ECML’s new three-year programme, Language education at the heart of democracy, launched recently, and you’ll find links to all the project websites here https://www.ecml.at/ECML-Programme/Programme2024-2027/tabid/5628/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

Here’s a fairly random three projects (not random in that all three have a short introductory video):

Unlocking educational opportunities in sign languages in Europe https://www.ecml.at/ECML-Programme/Programme2024-2027/DeafSign/tabid/5861/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Introductory video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WDDC5RUAL8

Fostering the plurilingual wellbeing of language teachers https://www.ecml.at/ECML-Programme/Programme2024-2027/Plurilingualwellbeing/tabid/5863/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Introductory video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFrm2hfgyTo

AI for language education https://www.ecml.at/ECML-Programme/Programme2024-2027/AIforlanguageeducation/tabid/5856/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Introductory video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3AEEowJPSY

4. Here’s Simon Borg’s latest blog post, Improving the Effectiveness of Professional Development, in which he outlines six key elements that in his experience give professional development programmes for teachers a greater chance of being effective  https://simon-borg.co.uk/improving-the-effectiveness-of-professional-development/

5. And, finally and imaginatively and resourcefully, Great Escapes: Remarkable Second World War Captives, the video of the National Archives exhibition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMrYocrxBeA

Here’s more on the exhibition itself https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/great-escapes/

and here’s the National Archives YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@TheNationalArchivesUK