DATE : Thursday, 5th November 2026
TIME : 7.00pm - 8.00pm
VENUE : Online via Zoom

Target Audience : Post Primary Teachers

Sustainability is written into the majority of specifications at Post-Primary. Although the pipes have been plumbed, as teachers and departments, we can find it difficult to turn on the taps. The gap isn't content, it's coherence, confidence, and classroom application.

This free, CPD-certified webinar gives post primary teachers an opportunity to look at sustainability from a subject and interdisciplinary perspective.

Grounded in ‘ESD to 2030’, and built upon the research of Stephen Sterling and other ESD researchers, this webinar will provide opportunities to evaluate your subject curriculum, consider classroom systems thinking pedagogy, and develop practical approaches that are immediately applicable.

By the end of this webinar, you will:
● Evaluate your current ESD practice using the ESD 1/ESD 2 framework
● Map ESD concretely across your subject specification
● Explore systems thinking as a classroom tool
● Consider ways to move beyond ‘sustainability’ as a bolt-on to your subject
● Explore ways to integrate ‘sustainability’ across subject areas, from within your own classroom and inter-department collaboration.

Bio of Presenter :

Thomas Gleeson is an experienced educator, school leader and educational researcher specialising in school self-evaluation, strategic planning and curriculum development. He is currently an English teacher and Assistant Principal I (Teaching & Learning) at Greystones Community College and a part-time lecturer and supervisor on the PME programme at University College Dublin.
He is currently a PhD candidate in Education at University College Dublin, with research focused on school-based curriculum design, integrated learning and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). He also holds an MSc in Educational Leadership and Management and a Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership.
Previously, he served as Deputy Principal and spent five years with the Department of Education’s Junior Cycle for Teachers (JCT) as a Regional Leader and Team Leader, supporting schools nationally in curriculum reform, professional learning and school improvement
planning.
He is also the founder of Educo21C, where he works with schools to develop coherent, impact focused approaches to whole-school strategic planning to improve teaching and learning.