ALL-INCLUSIVE SCHOOL aims at strengthening the methodological and digital skills of teachers and educators to favour the inclusion of light-intellectual disabled students (DSM-5), between 13-19-year-old, through the creation of innovative and technological Outputs to be used by teachers to manage diversity and promote inclusion of disabled students in class. The needs’ analysis realized during the project design revealed how relevant differences exist among the school systems of 5 partner countries (Italy-Romania-Spain-Germany-Belgium), particularly in terms of support given to disabled student. Thus, the level of inclusion depends on different aspects as the presence of special schools, the public/private relationship between schools and cooperatives providing educational services, and the presence of special need teachers, educators/mentors or other professional figures. The partnership, strategic for the realization of the project mission, gathers different actors, in light of having a team characterized by partners endowed with complementary skills, who are equally involved in promoting social inclusion at school: - 2 schools (ITS Calvi, Colegio Huerta Santa Ana) - 2 public institutions connected to the school system (Landkreis Kassel, Vaslui County School Inspectorate) - 1 cooperative VET centre (IRECOOP) - 1 specialized educational centre (CJRAE) - 1 educational & digital services cooperative (Kara Bobowski) - 1 University specialized in Special and Inclusive Education Besides the partners’ staff, in each country the project aims at involving teachers/educators and the classes of stakeholder schools, where students with light-intellectual disability are present, for the activities of data collection, PRE-TESTING, TESTING and dissemination. The direct collaboration with Schools will also be supported by a parallel project within eTwinning. By collecting the know-how and expertise from each partner, ALL-INCLUSIVE SCHOOL aims at creating and disseminating 3 transnational tools, free of any charge and available online, which will be widely disseminated at the European level: ALL-IN IDENTIKIT: research-analysis for the development of the skills and practices defined in the “Profile of Inclusive Teachers” (EASNIE 2012), with focus on digital skills and innovative methodologies; ALL-IN TEACHER KIT: Practical guide to the use of cooperative innovative didactic methodologies, with tools that support teachers in favouring school inclusion; ALL-IN SOCIAL BOOK CREATOR: innovative Web App for inclusive learning, through the cooperative creation of high-accessible digital contents (Social Books). For the good outcome of the project, the following activities will be realized: - 6 TRANSNATIONAL MEETINGS, 2 in Italy and one in each partner country; - 5 MULTIPLIER EVENTS (1 in each partner country), where pre-testing/testing activities will be realized and the project outputs and results will be disseminated. The whole project will be integrated by an articulated communication plan, including the use of eTwinning and School Education Gateway Platforms, in order to enhance its visibility and increase its diffusion toward the direct target group (teachers/educators), other stakeholders and institutions. The project management foresees the following key functions: - PROJECT DIRECTION: as project applicant, IRECOOP will be entitled of this function and thus of the responsibility to coordinate all the management, implementation and monitoring steps in terms of deadlines, available budget and strategy, all in accordance with the partners’ agreement; - PROJECT COMMITTEE: it will be composed by members of partners’ staff. It will be the decisional body and it will control the development of all project steps. It will be ruled according the consensus modus operandi; - OUTPUT COORDINATION: a single partner will be in charge of the output production in accordance with the Project Committee’s indications; SCIENTIFIC VALIDATION: the University partner UCLL will guarantee the scientific supervision and coordination of the methodologies and working tools for the Outputs’ realization. Partners will collaborate through an online project management platform and through more classic sharing devices (skype, mail drive). The overall project’s quality and sustainability will be guaranteed by the activities planning process, the choice of effective strategies and tools to develop, monitor and evaluate the project actions, the wide online and offline dissemination plan implemented through the transnational stakeholder network, and the commitment of the partnership to encourage the Output usability keeping available the project website. In the short-medium term, the project will have an impact in terms of cultural, methodological, technological change on the schools systems, starting from the didactic inclusive and digital practices, which teachers/educators will be able to use and apply.
The project started from the analysis of the different approaches to educational support for pupils with disabilities in the partner countries (IT, RO, ES, DE, BE) and their effects on the level of school and social inclusion and involved staff needs. ALL-INCLUSIVE SCHOOL aimed to strengthen the methodological and digital skills of teachers/educators to favour the inclusion of students with mild intellectual disabilities (DSM-5), aged between 12-19, through the creation of innovative and digital Outputs to be used by teachers to manage diversity and promote the inclusion in class. In this sense, the project focused on the 2030 Agenda objectives 4-Quality education and 10-Reduce inequalities. The partnership, strategic for the realization of the mission, gathered different actors creating a team of partners endowed with complementary skills but equally committed to promoting inclusion at school: - 2 secondary schools (ITS CALVI, Colegio Huerta Santa Ana) - 2 public bodies connected to school system (LandKreis Kassel, Vaslui County School Inspectorate) - 1 cooperative VET center (IRECOOP ER) - 1 Specialized Educational Center (CJRAE) - 1 educational and digital services cooperative (Archilabò) - 1 University specialized in Special and Inclusive Education (UCLL) Besides the partners staff, the project involved over 90 stakeholders in the Outputs development and dissemination stages: schools representative bodies, bodies that deal with teachers training, innovation and Open Educational Resources, educational services cooperatives, NGOs/associations that provide services to support disability. More specifically, over 200 teachers/educators participated in the data collection for the Outputs, in the framework of an evidence based approach. The teachers, direct target, were also involved in TESTING and PILOTING activities; the latter also involved students, including those with mild intellectual disabilities (indirect target). ALL-INCLUSIVE SCHOOL has created 3 transnational Outputs, available online in different languages (IT, EN, DE; ES, RO, NL) and modalities: *ALL-IN IDENTIKIT: research-analysis for the development of the Inclusive European Teacher Identikit, starting from the "Profile of inclusive teachers'' (EASNIE 2012). The research has mapped skills - in particular digital - teaching strategies and methodologies , pedagogical guidelines to encourage inclusion at school, with particular attention to cooperative approaches and the support of digital technologies. *ALL-IN TEACHER KIT: practical guide to the use of innovative cooperative teaching strategies and methodologies with ready-to-use tools, activities and examples, to support the work of teachers and educators in promoting inclusion. The guide, which can be downloaded or browsed online on the project website, is structured on the basis of the All-in Identikit and includes: 26 practical activities and 18 methodologies related to the organization of learning 20 methodologies and 5 examples of assessment activities of the "learning to learn" skill A focus on the methodology of the Social Books Creator, third Project Output *ALL-IN SOCIAL BOOK CREATOR: tool for the cooperative creation and sharing of open, inclusive and accessible digital contents (Social Books), which consists of: -SBC Editor, Web App for the cooperative creation of Social Books -SBC Cooperative Press, a collaborative repository of highly accessible digital texts and Social Books For the good outcome of the project, the following activities were realized: -6 TRANSNATIONAL MEETINGS, with frequent intermediate virtual meetings -5 MULTIPLIER EVENTS (1 for each partner country) for the final dissemination of the Outputs and the project as a whole. The quality and sustainability of the project were guaranteed by: -An articulated activities planning -strategies and tools aimed at implementing / monitoring / evaluating the actions -a wide communication and dissemination plan involving the transnational network of stakeholders -the partners commitment to stimulate the Outputs usability by making them available in different modalities and through different channels. All the tools and materials were in fact widely disseminated and promoted at local, national and European level throughout the project, also thanks to the use of eTwinning and School Education Gateway platforms, in order to reach and involve a large number of teachers and educators at European level and beyond. The impact is currently measurable in the short term, differently on partners, teachers, students and other stakeholders, from the local to the international level, primarily in terms of skills strengthening and improved digital technology use in favor of inclusion. In the medium-long term the project will have an impact in terms of cultural, methodological and technological change on school systems starting from the inclusive and digital teaching practices that teachers / educators will be able to implement.