What is EDEAS Connect?
EDEAS Connect is an amazing new resource hub which can be found on the Devon Education Services Shop. It’s a subscription only hub to access expert resources, guidance and community support for schools and settings and is fully funded for Devon maintained schools.
We will shortly also be offering academies and other settings a package to include consultancy and a subscription to EDEAS Connect. Please visit this page again or sign up to our EDEAS newsletter.
What information and guidance is on EDEAS Connect?
EDEAS wants EDEAS Connect to be a community hub, of like-minded education staff who aim to improve the lived experiences of the diverse children we all serve. This community is a place to access up to date guidance and support for ethnically diverse and multilingual children, as well as wider equality, diversity and inclusion support.
Good practice
From school feedback we understand it can be difficult for those championing support for ethnically diverse and multilingual children, as well as supporting wider equality, diversity and inclusion, to observe good practice in other schools.
We have a dedicated section on our landing page to highlight good practice examples and will continue to build on this each term.
If you would like to share an activity, task or action you have been working on in your school to improve the outcomes and wellbeing of these children then do contact EDEAS and we can share your good practice.
Resources
EDEAS Connect will continue to evolve. EDEAS has mapped out a strategy to add further resources and guidance over time. You can stay informed of EDEAS Connect updates through our newsletter.
Currently EDEAS Connect has three sections on Supporting multilingualism, Supporting Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and Showmen children and a bonus section on Equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Supporting multilingualism guidance on:
- Language acquisition and monitoring
- Guidance on supporting SEN diagnosis for multilingual children
- Home language GCSEs
- SATS
- Supporting primary and secondary children
- Welcoming new arrivals, checklists etc
- Multilingualism in the Early Years
- Bilingual resources
- One-minute guides
- Booking EDEAS clinics
- Professional development
- Understanding funding
- and much more…..
- Supporting Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and Showmen children guidance on:
- Attendance and using the ‘T’ code
- Distance learning packs
- Culture and experiences
- Resource suggestions
- Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History month (June)
- Fun Fair month (September)
- Elective home education
- Reading lists
- Booking EDEAS clinics
- and much more…..
- Equality, diversity and inclusion guidance on (bonus content)
- Anti-racism in schools
- Guides for staff and parents/carers on racism and bullying
- Resources to support bullying, prejudice and racism incidents
- Reading lists
- Understanding different cultures and faiths
- Professional development
- Policies
- Hate crime and non-crime hate incident resources
- Cultural exchange
- and much more…..
Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) guidance is bonus content on EDEAS Connect as all EDI support usually falls under EDI advisory consultancy, which is chargeable to all schools.
Accessing EDEAS Connect
EDEAS Connect is currently only available to Devon maintained schools and is fully funded for these schools and EYFS settings attached to them.
You will need to log in with a school e-mail address to access EDEAS Connect. If you haven’t yet set up an account, please click on the register button in the top right hand corner of the screen to register against your school.
Don’t forget to save the page to your favourites and sign up to our newsletter so you can be alerted to new resources and guidance.
You can also find EDEAS Connect through the ‘My subscription content’ tab. When you log into the Devon Education Services shop, go to your account area by clicking on your name in the top right hand corner of the screen and then go to the ‘My subscription content’ tab. The EDEAS Connect site will be listed there; please click on the blue ‘access site button’ to open EDEAS Connect.
Academies and all other settings, please sign up to our newsletter so that you can be alerted to the opportunity to purchase a subscription to EDEAS Connect.
Why is EDEAS using EDEAS Connect?
This is a great question and something EDEAS has been developing for a while.
School feedback is really valuable to EDEAS and the feedback we received on our original webpages had some common themes:
- It is too hard to navigate
- There is so much valuable content on there, but it is difficult too find the information
- Schools have less time to read lengthy documents and want more precise information
- The original website was limiting the ability to build a community of like minded staff and share good practice
With this in mind EDEAS set to work to create a hub to support school staff to find the up to date information and resources they in a more accessible manner.