Access to School for Everyone Erasmus Project

Project Title

Access to School for Everyone

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Context and background:
The OECD spread during CERI (Conference on Innovation, Governance and Reform in Education-Paris, 2014) evidence on how schools have to cope with diversity in the future. They noticed that diversity in education is one of the future challenges for schools the next decade.
The current challenges are:
– Practice, research and policy are disconnected;
– Schools have to integrate diversity in their school models;
– Teachers and students are disconnected.
The OECD noticed that:
– Teachers are not equipped to incorporate local diversity into their practice;
– Schools are not ready to realize the integration of diversity in their models;
– Schools and teachers are not ready to implement what is asked.

Objectives of the project:
To support school in coping with diversity in order to enhance student learning by:
a. Supporting schools & teachers in connecting practice, research and policy according to diversity;
b. Integrating diversity in school models;
c. Connecting teachers and students according to diversity;
d. Developing tools and didactic modules that support a, b, c;
e. Develop non-formal activites to help in cope with diversity, using interdisciplinary approach and innovative teaching tools.

Participants:
Teachers, students, managers, families, friends organisations, friends school, decision makers, policy makers, participants with fewer opportunity (social, cultural, economics).
Primary target group: school teams in school education: involving teachers, heads, senior and middle management and internal support staff.
Secondary target group: external support staff: advisers, counsellors and policy makers
6 persons per partner will be involved in 3 transitional project meetings.
24 persons per partner will be involved in 4 Training activites (Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils).

Activities:
SchoolAccess Website: The Italian partner has been in charge for the development and update of the official website of the project in which all the partners collected their products, photos and videos of activities and events, dissemination activities and information about the project in general and about the transnational meetings.

Common Frames of Reference on diversity – CFR on Diversity
This IO is the common frame of reference on diversity, regarding the core ideas of the project.
E-book in which we collect all the pedagogical tools developed within the project.

DVD Transmedia Storytelling
This product is a DVD in which the Greek partner collected all the experience made by thier students in the field of nature and music. It used the Transmedia storytelling tool, a technique of telling a single story across multiple platforms and formats including, but not limited to, games, books, events, cinema and television, mobile.

Exhibition Think about your perception of diversity
Exhibition based on the art works realized by all the learners in each partner’s country, focused on perception of diversity in their own community.

Theatre Multiple Thoughts
Theatre to overcome shyness and help pupils to express themselves in order to better cope with diversity. Theater at the school can become a lever to prevent school failure and promote success for all students.

Methodology: the project used the European examples of good practice on diversity as the starting point. From there on, the project looked on how teams & schools can be supported to use diversity as a strength in education to realise better learning. The partnership have learned together during 5 LTT-activities and work sharing continuous their expertise. The project creates a Common frame of reference (to realise the needs formulated in the rationale of the project.
During the visits echange in each partners country participants will take part in specific workshop related to the topic developed by the guest partner. In this way all the partner are able to reproduce the teaching activities at local level in their own countries.

Impact and results:
The desired impact is that school teams can cope with the diversity in their classrooms and schools and that they can use the challenge of diversity to enhance learning by all students. So schools and school teams have a renewed frame of thinking on how practice, research and policy are connected and on how schools can integrate diversity in their models to enhance the learning of students through using the diversity. Their renewed frame of thinking is based on the CFR, developed by the partners during the lifetime of the project. They have access to a lot of handy tools to cope with diversity to enhance learning by the use of diversity in their groups. Teaching in diversity has become a stance and a culture in their school. The results of the students are optimized, which makes that students have better results, are more willing to come to school, are less excluded and there will be less drop out by the students.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 148166 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège “La Sologne” & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Mousiko Sxoleio Irakleiou
• Colegiul National Economic “Gheorghe Chitu”,Craiova
• Zespol Szkol Zawodowych in Wabrzezno
• Istituto Comprensivo Bucine