Enlarge SEAS aims to extend to new countries the network of schools implementing and sharing Successful Educational Actions (SEAS) in Europe, a network initiated by the SEAS4ALL project (2015-1-ES01-KA201-016327). These SEAS were analysed and identified by the INCLUD-ED project (funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme, FP6 2006-2011) as actions that increase academic results for all students, especially for those belonging to vulnerable groups, improving coexistence, family participation and social cohesion. Through the implementation of this set of SEAS (1. Interactive Groups, 2. Dialogic Literary Gatherings, 3. Family Education, 4. Educative participation of the community, 5. Dialogic Pedagogical training for teachers, 6. Dialogic conflict prevention and resolution model) more students from Czech Republic, Portugal, Malta and Spain (more than 2.000) and their families, will have better opportunities to live included in today´s society. The results expected are: increase in the percentage of the students from vulnerable groups achieving the basic skills and competencies, reduction of conflicts inside and outside the educational centres, and improvement of family participation and engagement in the schools involved. Finally, the project will develop a series of open courses, available in the School Education Gateway, to support the implementation and to scale up the benefits of the SEAS to all schools interested in Europe. This material will contribute to strengthening the profile of the teaching profession by promoting an evidence-based approach in all practices developed in the schools.
Enlarge SEAS has extended the network of schools implementing and sharing Successful Educational Actions (SEAS) in Europe to new countries. SEAs, (1. Interactive Groups, 2. Dialogic Literary Gatherings, 3. Family Education, 4. Educative participation of the community, 5. Dialogic Pedagogical training for teachers, 6. Dialogic conflict prevention and resolution model) were initially identified by the INCLUD-ED project (FP6, 2006-2011) as actions that increase academic results for all students, especially for those belonging to vulnerable groups, improving coexistence, family participation and social cohesion. After the first network promoted by the SEAS4ALL project (2015-1-ES01-KA201- 016327), ENLARGE has successfully promoted 15 new schools in the Czech Republic, Portugal, Malta, and Spain that have implemented SEAs. For doing that, the partners have developed specific training and shared their learning, difficulties and advancements. Notably, the pandemic brought unforeseen challenges, further increasing the need to effectively reach all families and children in the most challenging situations. While the SEAs that were implemented until now were based on the strong participation of the communities in schools (e.g. with diverse and regular volunteering in the classroom), schools reinvented and shared new forms of implementing the actions respecting social distancing and other related measures. As a result, around 2.000 students have benefited from better opportunities to live included in today’s society. In all the involved schools, there has been an increase in the percentage of the students from vulnerable groups achieving the basic skills and competencies, improvement of the absenteeism and early school leaving rates, better coexistence, and more family and community engagement and participation reaching almost 200 volunteers. The project also had a strong political impact, involving 26 policymakers and achieving, for instance, the national scale of the SEAs in the Malta case. Finally, the project has developed a series of series of open access courses available at the website of the project and soon at the School Education Gateway that support the implementation and scaling up of the benefits of the SEAS to all schools interested in Europe. This material contributes to strengthening the profile of the teaching profession by promoting an evidence-based approach in all practices developed in the schools.