Managing for @ School of Success Erasmus Project

Project Title

Managing for @ School of Success

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Economic and financial affairs (incl. funding issues); Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Research and innovation

Project Summary

The state education decentralization project, approved by DL nº 30/2015, of 12 February, placed the emphasis on local capacities to stimulate education of quality, with greater autonomy and decentralization.
Given the educational challenges (to strengthen local and school capacities to stimulate quality education; increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the leadership and educational management system, potentiate autonomy; reinforce school leadership and the teaching profession, through relevant support and training, according to the education decentralization policy; develop assessment of the organisation and the various actors, to improve professional performance, learning, reduce the repetition of years and school drop-out), EduFor Training Centre applied to this project, to share approaches, compare practices and develop relevant knowledge.
Europe is faced with these challenges. In OECD reports, they are part of a European strategy to build successful schools, with more efficient management.
The participants were: schools’ headteachers (EduFor Pedagogical Commission); director, advisor and consultant of the Training Centre, Administrative staff. UPorto accompanied the conception and assessment.
The partnerships presented the situation of education in Europe and the study of five clusters of educational systems, in the areas of educational decentralization; curriculum management, understanding the decision-making power at the various levels of intervention; School assessment systems, in the processes and results, as well as in Improvement Plans.
Results:
Each short training event (6) produced a short vídeo, to be disseminated in Europe and beyond.
Guide of Good Practices for Documental Management in a Successful School, to target efficient practices.
Web page of the Managing for @ School of Success project, with the information, documentation and material available to the public.
E-book Managing for @ School of Success, with the experiences and learning from a reflective perspective. In fact, 3 E-books were produced, one for each training area of M@SS, with the contribution and validation of all partners, and coordinated by UPorto. These are published.
Scientific article, validated by the University of Porto and submitted to “European Education”, a journal with an “Impact Factor”
Communic Document Ation Platform Between Erasmus+ Schools, transfer of a good practice, used in the EduFor schools. Communication and share of documents was spread and extended.
The International Seminar “Managing for @ School of Success”, over two days, held in the University of Porto, as a major Multiplying Event.
Impact achieved:
With direct implications for schools’ headteachers, in improved knowledge about school management, the result of international and multi-dimensional sharing; development of technical competences associated with top management and processes, in a comparative way, with improvement and greater effectiveness in performance; improved management practices, in various dimensions (administration, assessment, curriculum, communication and relations);
EduFor and the CECE partner enhance skills in leading international collaborative projects; improved training processes promoting their thematic relevance;
Local authorities, through the knowledge provided concerning the challenges involved in decentralization of education; international sharing with other experiences and recognition of good practices of decentralization in administrative and pedagogical domains;
The target public, teachers, non-teaching staff, pupils, parents and guardians, and other stakeholders, since the project is something of a laboratory to test some decentralization policies and educational autonomy in other European countries, and knowledge of these is of great importance for decisions to be taken in the future.
Evidence:
Project page
http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu
Meeting agendas
M1- http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu/documentos/M/M1.pdf
M2- http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu/documentos/M/M2.pdf
M3- http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu/documentos/M/M3.pdf
M4- http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu/documentos/M/M4.pdf
Training Event Agendas
C1- http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu/documentos/C/C1.pdf
C2- http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu/documentos/C/C2.pdf
C3- http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu/documentos/C/C3.pdf
C4- http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu/documentos/C/C4.pdf
C5- http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu/documentos/C/C5.pdf
C6- http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu/documentos/C/C6.pdf
Partial products
http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu/uk/partialProducts.html
Final products
http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu/uk/endProducts.html
Scientific article
http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu/documentos/artigoCientifico.pdf
Photographs and videos
http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu/uk/album.html
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/mfschoolsuccess

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 247576,26 Eur

Project Coordinator

Agrupamento de Escolas de Mangualde & Country: PT

Project Partners

• Branston Junior Academy
• I Spoleczne Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im Unii Europejskiej w Zamosciu
• UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO
• Istituto Omicomprensivo “Ridolfi- Zimarino”
• GEMEENTE ‘S-HERTOGENBOSCH
• CONFEDERACION ESPANOLA DE CENTROS DE ENSENANZA ASOCIACION C.E.C.E.