Global Learning can be the golden thread through your curriculum, enhancing your personal development outcomes. We have expressed this in terms of Intent, Implementation and Impact:
Intent - Global Learning can provide a framework underpinning curriculum intent. A curriculum with a global learning focus is ambitious - as well as being creative, caring and collaborative. Pupils’ Global Learning experiences support their development as global citizens, helping to develop values, emotional resilience, a range of thinking skills and a sense of agency preparing them for their future.
Implementation - CDEC supports teachers with knowledge, skills, approaches and resources to weave Global Learning into a school’s curriculum. This is delivered through CPD, general support, resource boxes and other resources and projects.
Impact - Global Learning excites pupils and develops engagement and a passion and purpose for learning. It develops a range of skills including their critical literacy, geography and social skills, allowing them to apply and build on their knowledge for their future as active global citizens with compassion and agency for people, place and planet.
Fill in this form to renew your CDEC membership or if you’re joining for the first time. If you’re not sure whether or not you need to renew your membership, or if you have any questions, please send an email to dan@cdec.org.uk
Membership fees for 2025-26
(only one membership per school is needed for each member of staff to have access to the benefits listed below. Membership runs from the date you sign until 31st August 2026)
| Preschools and Nursery schools | £45.00 | Subscribe |
| Primary schools with fewer than 50 pupils | £45.00 | Subscribe |
| Primary schools with more than 50 pupils | £80.00 | Subscribe |
| Secondary schools | £100.00 | Subscribe |
Fill in this form to renew your CDEC membership or if you’re joining for the first time. If you’re not sure whether or not you need to renew your membership, or if you have any questions, please send an email to dan@cdec.org.uk
The benefits of CDEC membership for 2025-26:
- Members’ newsletter. CDEC member schools get our e-newsletter every month containing news and updates about projects and events, advance notice of our training courses, activities and resources for your classroom, funding opportunities and more besides. When you school is a member, all the teaching staff are members, too - add as many names to the mailing list as you like!
- A FREE place on one of our open training courses. We’ll be running CPD training courses throughout the school year and as a member school, you’ll hear about them first, so you’ll have the first opportunity to book places. Find out more here.
- BORROW our Resource Boxes. Available exclusively to member schools, our boxes are an ideal complement to your teaching and stimulate pupil learning and imagination. The boxes include teaching packs, books, artefacts and a variety of activities to support Global Learning across your curriculum and to bring your classroom to life. There is something for every primary key stage and for secondary citizenship - download this table of all our boxes to see the different themes and key stages as well as the relevant Sustainable Development Goals that they link to.
- SUPPORT for your cluster/MAT. Partnerships and collaborations are at the heart of all we do and in our experience, schools and teachers benefit from stronger working relationships with each other. If all schools in your cluster or MAT join, then we can deliver in-person training directly to your cluster/MAT, listening to the needs of your schools and provide bespoke advice and support regarding any global learning projects.
- Opportunities to get involved in our PROJECT WORK. We’re currently delivering climate and community projects in schools across the county - again, as a member school/cluster/MAT, you’ll hear about our projects and events first, so you’ll have the first opportunity to get involved. Find out more here.
- FREE books! Over the years, CDEC has produced/published a number of books - some are storybooks and others are teacher aids. We have them for sale on our website, we loan them out in our resource boxes and now we’re giving some of them away to member schools for FREE!
- The satisfaction that you are supporting Global Learning in Cumbria for years to come!
On a personal note, CDEC survives because schools are members. If schools weren’t members of CDEC we wouldn’t be able to run projects, manage our resource library or share Global Learning throughout Cumbria for the benefit of our future global citizens. So, thank you!
We look forward to having you as members in 2025-26. In the meantime, we wish you, your staff and pupils all the best and we look forward to working with you in the next academic year.
The CDEC team - Laura, Geoff, Alison, Mina and Dan