The main goal for the All-in Ed project is making teachers more aware of school engagement and providing them with some tools to make their practices more engaging in order to prevent early school leaving. Bearing these goals in mind, the objectives of our project are as follows: 1. Identifying pre-existing practices that foster school engagement. 2. Share and analyse the collected engaging practices linked to an agreed theoretical framework related to school engagement. 3. Spread the engaging practices, which are backed by the collected evidence of impacts among local educational communities, providing teachers with new ideas and tools. 4. Make recommendations and provide tools based on the conclusions of the developed process, in order to improve and promote new actions. Through all these objectives, we plan to increase the level of student engagement in their learning process while improving the quality of students’ success, as a way to promote the long term reduction in early school leaving rates.
We came together as a consortium at a TCA- seminar in Lahti in September 2019. This was because of a similar vision of collecting good practices related to school engagement European wide. We all share a very strong proactive sense of tackling the challenges to do with school engagement. Add to this our European Values and we have the concept of ‘Europe as School’, where emphasis is placed upon the notion of schools across the EU actively sharing and evaluating school engagement related good practices. The needs we have addressed during the project are as follows: - To make educational practices more engaging for everyone in order to prevent early school leaving. - To have some tools to improve educational practices to make them more engaging. - For educators across the EU to join in actively to discuss and share school engagement related practices. This also includes the active reflection on the practice and learning from each other. -To establish a theoretical framework for school engagement. -To engage other teachers and student teachers in school engagement, so they will be willing and able to tackle issues to do with early school leaving through school engagement. -To establish an active university collaboration.