The latest webinar in the Energy Reduction Advisory series, with Professor Tony Cooke, is FREE to Schools! No charge!
In this Energy Reduction Advisory webinar, Professor Tony Cooke will explain the importance to the SLT of the delivery of the Sustainability & Climate Education Diagnostic Survey, to ascertain who the Sustainability Changemakers in the school staff are, how to use the resulting report to draft your School's Climate Education Plan, why both are included with the Energy Reduction Package for schools, and how this is the most important first step when rolling out a school's Energy Reduction Strategy.
Introducing The Energy Reduction Advisory (ERA) Webinar Series
Professor Tony Cooke - Founder of OPEN. Nottingham University
Professor Tony Cooke, Nottingham University. Founder of OPEN. Tony has over 25 years executive and non-executive board experience across a variety of sectors with organisations of all sizes and stages in their lifecycle. He is passionate about helping organisations drive transformational change through a more entrepreneurial culture. He holds an MBA in sustainable business and is an Honorary Associate Professor in Sustainability Leadership at the University of Nottingham.
Tony helped to co-found OPEN in 2017 out of a passion for helping aspiring and practising change agents to amplify their individual and collective impact. His focus is on understanding what barriers hold change agents back from achieving the results that they desire and helping them to develop skills and effective strategies to overcome these barriers. OPEN have partnered exclusively with eduCCate Global to deliver a groundbreaking diagnostic toolkit to ascertain Sustainability and Climate Education throughout a school’s staff (teaching and non-teaching) that delivers the data and baseline evidence required to draft a school’s climate education policy.
Professor Cooke will explain why Sustainable Leadership, Climate Education and Energy Reduction are all joined together in a circle that delivers not only sustainable actions but financial sustainability for school budgets, which can be ring-fenced for upskilling all staff, as the process spreads holistically throughout the school leadership by delivering a foundation of climate education teaching and learning fit for the Net Zero Transformation.
The Professors, Director of Education, Headteachers, Teachers and Sustainability Lead Teachers who assisted Professors Tony Cooke, Jody Fry and eduCCate Global in workshops and alpha testing of the Sustainability & Climate Education Diagnostic Survey
Professor Tony Cooke will speak about.....
The Sustainability and Climate Education Diagnostic Survey is primarily interested in understanding what motivates, enables and constrains you to embed sustainability into your work or area of responsibility within the school/college, and aims to generate insights to inform where your personal development should be focused in order to make the biggest difference to your ability to get results for your school on sustainability. In short, your ability to act as a 'change agent for sustainability'.
The questionnaire focusses on:
your mindset
your personality traits
your sustainability knowledge and competencies
your sense of self-efficacy
your perceptions of organisational enablers and barriers to sustainability at your school
Your individual responses will be confidential, but may be used to personalise a suggested learning pathway for you. All responses will be aggregated and anonymised for analysis at your school/college level, as well as across the wider survey sample.
Each participant receives top-level results as to their personal climate education and sustainability learning journey but we also provide a one-on-one "deep dive" into the school-level insights and how to use them to draft the school's climate education plan and sustainability strategy.
Learning Outcomes
This webinar series will provide you with an overview of the measures schools and colleges can take to become more energy efficient in line with DfE guidance, adopt good practice and implement different interventions that can support reduced demand, consumption, costs and emissions.
On 6 December 2022, the DfE published guidance to support building users, premises managers and senior leadership teams to reduce energy, costs and carbon use. The guidance provides a range of advice from everyday behavioural changes to more complex interventions that require additional expertise.
In this webinar, Professor Tony Cooke, will explore what the guidance means for schools and Colleges and gives insight into how conducting an all school staff sustainability and climate education diagnostic survey as part of an energy reduction plan can help to inform best practice. Professor Cooke will speak about the development of the survey and how school SLTs use the resulting report to draft the school's climate education plan/policy, and why this is included with the Energy Reduction Advisory "Package" to get your school started on its very own Energy Reduction Strategy within an holistic whole school approach to delivering climate education.
Understanding schools and college’s own energy usage and conducting an audit to target where they can save energy
Recognising how to develop a plan using information from energy audits to encourage good practices, behaviours and further interventions
Identifying how to implement and manage proposed interventions to reduce energy consumption
Understanding the steps to take to in order to generate renewable energy on site and the different technologies that can be employed
Realising the importance of good ventilation, where to source specialist services and how and where to access further help and support
Key Points of the Allocation
The funds have been released in December 2022.
The allocation for primary and secondary schools in England is based on a flat amount of £10,000 plus £20.06 per pupil, based on the latest information about your pupil numbers that the DfE has on record.
The funds come with the stipulation that they have to be spent in the current financial year 22/23.
The funds must be spent on capital projects, prioritising projects that improve your school estate’s energy efficiency.
Note that the money CANNOT be used to pay for current energy bills or other general running costs.
Given the timelines under which this funding needs to be spent, there is an element of urgency to get an effective energy efficiency project under way.
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