Schools as Learning Communities in Europe aims to establish and expand a network of schools to exchange, develop and transfer Successful Educational Actions (SEAs) in Europe. SEAs have shown to improve educational attainment and social cohesion elsewhere. Those successful actions have been implemented in many diverse contexts (rural-urban; low-middle-high SES; high poverty areas, etc) and school across national boundaries. Within this network SEAs4ALL, schools from Spain, Cyprus, Italy and United Kingdom will lead an international exchange and create the basis for deepening and extending the scientific knowledge applied to improve the quality of education across Europe. This project will produce training and classroom materials for teachers, researchers, and policy-makers to share and build upon for designing successful educational policies. Policy and social impact will be achieved by raising standards, skills and social competences of the future generations in Europe. Project objectives: • To promote the development, transfer and application of SEAs and Learning Communities among European schools in collaboration with universities and regional governments. • To implement SEAs in European schools. • To establish the first network of Schools as Learning Communities and implementing SEAs in Europe. • To provide a structure, materials and skills for the participating countries to promote SEAs and Learning Communities in a sustainable way.
Schools as Learning Communities in Europe aims to establish and scale up a network for the implementation and exchange of Sucessful Educational Actions (SEAs) in Europe. SEAs have demonstrated the improvement of school results, coexistence and social cohesion in all the places where they have been implemented. These actions have been implemented in very diverse contexts (rural and urban, with high and low socioeconomic index, impoverished areas, etc.) in different countries. With this network, schools in Spain, Cyprus, Italy and the United Kingdom will lead an international exchange of Success Educational Actions and will create the basis for deepening and strengthening the scientific knowledge applied to the improvement of education systems in Europe. The basic objectives of the project are: -To promote the development, transfer and implementation of Successful Educational Actions and the transformation of Schools into Learning Communities with the collaboration of universities and regional educational authorities. -Implement Successful Educational Actions in European schools -Establish the first network of schools as Learning Communities in Europe. -Provide a structure, materials and skills in participating countries to implement SEAs in a sustainable way. To this end, it was created a consortium of 9 partners, including 5 schools (belonging to all the participating countries), 2 universities and 2 regional governments. The main activities that have been carried out with the project funds have been: 1. Intellectual object. The realization of 10 training modules that are available free and open access on the project web page: http://seas4all.eu/outcomes-2/. These modules are available in English, Italian, Greek and Spanish. They have served for the internal training of the participating schools and for the scale, self-education and sustainability of the project once the financing has finished. 2. Multiplier Event. An International Conference has been organized at the end of the project which has brought together more than 700 people from different European countries. This conference has presented the final results of the project and the training modules developed during the project. In addition to face-to-face assistance, the conference has been broadcast live and its videos have had 570 downloads since then. With the management and implementation budget of the project, several activities have been carried out, which we summarize below: Preparation activities: -Creation of the Logo and the web of the project. -Development review and translation of evaluation tools. -Production of Brochure.http: //seas4all.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/SEAs4All-Brochure.pdf Implementation and follow-up activities Described in section 5 of this report, presentation meetings, training of teaching teams and regional government advisors were carried out in all countries. After this phase all the partners began with the implementation of at least 2 Success Educational Actions or the follow-up of in the case of the universities and the regional governments. Dissemination activities Described in Section 6 of this report, numerous dissemination events were held in each of the countries. Results and impacts achieved: The project has improved the educational results, coexistence and social cohesion of the 5 schools and their communities involved in the project (as evidenced in section 6 of this report, Annex 6.13). It has created scale capabilities with the 2 Universities, the 2 governments involved and the intellectual object and multiplier event produced. It has extended the SEAs benefit to 14 new schools (2 in Italy, 6 in Cyprus and 6 in the UK). Finally, it has extended the project to a new territory since the Ministry of Portugal has begun to promote the implementation of SEAs in 10 schools. The benefits of the long-term project are the consolidation of the good academic results, coexistence and social cohesion, in schools that are part of the network but above all the presentation of aaneducational intervention that can improve the education system of any country.