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Essunga, a Swedish municipality, transformed the ranking of its schools from the bottom to the top of the national school league tables between 2007 to the top in 2010. Essunga has three elementary schools and one lower secondary school (grades 6-9). With 5,500 citizens, it is one of the smallest municipalities in the country. The increase in levels of achievement is attributed to a research-based approach of inclusive education. For years, the three elementary schools in Essunga had consistently experienced low educational levels. An increasing number of students were refugees or in “family placements”. In 2007, only 76% of students were eligible for upper secondary school and 20% of these were placed in special education classes. These results compelled political and school leaders and school staff to identify targeted measures to address these challenges. The municipality focused on interventions at school and in the local community to prevent school absence and increase attendance.

Η Οικογενειακή Εκπαίδευση αποτελεί μία από τις Επιτυχημένες Εκπαιδευτικές Δράσεις (SEA) που προβλέπονται στο ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα INCLUD-ED. Strategies for inclusion and social cohesion in Europe from education (INCLUD-ED. Στρατηγικές για την ένταξη και την κοινωνική συνοχή στην Ευρώπη από την εκπαίδευση) (Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή, 6ο πρόγραμμα πλαίσιο, 2006-2011).

To improve student success and prevent early school leaving, the Malmaskolan established a Student Health Team, comprised of a school nurse, a special education teacher, the principal, the school counselor, the leisure-time pedagogues, the study and career counselor, a social worker, the school physician and a school psychologist. Since 2005, this Health Team has been the core for the development of teaching at the school, and is a hub for both teaching and school development. They have open meetings thrice weekly where teachers can discuss issues, and where a wide range of potential measures to support students is identified.

The aim of the report Nordic Projects to Combat School Dropout is to improve and inspire new initiatives for young people, and to create enriching contacts between actors and organisations in the Nordic region.
The Nordic Web Resource on Dropout from Upper Secondary Education was a project commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers and run by the Nordic Welfare Centre between 2012 and 2015. The aim of the project was to compile good examples of initiatives aimed at increasing the proportion of young people in the Nordic region who complete upper secondary education.

Η παρούσα έκθεση επιδιώκει να παρέχει πληροφόρηση και να καθοδηγήσει τον βραχυπρόθεσμο και μεσοπρόθεσμο στρατηγικό σχεδιασμό των 10 δήμων των πόλεων του προγράμματος Urbact - PREVENT και όλων των άλλων δήμων, τοπικών αρχών και σχολείων σε ολόκληρη την Ευρώπη όσον αφορά τη συμμετοχή των γονέων στην εκπαίδευση για την πρόληψη της πρόωρης εγκατάλειψης του σχολείου. Η παρούσα αξιολόγηση βασίζεται σε ανάλυση των εγγράφων της Επιτροπής και του Συμβουλίου της ΕΕ σχετικά με την πρόωρη εγκατάλειψη του σχολείου και την κοινωνική ένταξη, τον διάλογο και την εν εξελίξει διαδικασία διαβούλευσης με τους 10 δήμους που συμμετέχουν στο πρόγραμμα Urbact - PREVENT και εξετάζει τη διεθνή έρευνα σε σχέση με τον συγκεκριμένο τομέα. Το πρόγραμμα PREVENT χρηματοδοτείται από το πρόγραμμα Urbact της ΕΕ.

ProsocialLearn is creating fun educational games for children to learn social and emotional well-being skills. By working together, teachers and game developers are creating new learning opportunities for inclusive education. The project wants to create a prosocial game development and distribution platform in order to distribute prosocial digital games from game companies to the educational sector and work with communities of teachers in Europe to evaluate their approach. Digital games can be tailored to teach the benefits of cooperation, as well as the ability to recognise the emotions of others and express trustworthiness – prosocial skills – helping children to appreciate team-work, recognise the value of understanding other people’s needs and achieve academically.
The games are targeted in particular at children at risk of social exclusion, who find it difficult to show empathy, and include hidden indicators that measure the development of a child’s skills. ProsocialLearn also developed a platform where teachers can track their pupils’ progress and plan lessons that incorporate the games.

The toolkit developed as part of the valorisation of the findings by the Reducing Early School Leaving in Europe (RESL.eu) research project aims to support practitioners working with youth in identifying and monitoring students and schools in need of greater care and support. It is primarily focused on the situation of those young people who are at risk of school disengagement and early school leaving. The toolkit is primarily dedicated to school staff: principals, teachers, educators, pedagogical counsellors, class tutors and school psychologists. However, it might be also helpful for other educational specialists working in education policies and in alternative learning pathways.

For Arvika, Centralskolan is a big school with students coming from the city centre and surrounding areas. Students are from very mixed backgrounds, including students from disadvantaged areas. Several years ago, the school had a significant number of students whose academic achievements after the 9^th grade were not sufficient for entering an upper secondary education. One of the key issues in Centralskolan, as well as in other surrounding schools, was that the student reading comprehension skills across various subjects were poor. Subjects of maths and science have been extra prioritised by Centralskolan as student results within those subjects were especially low. Therefore, the school has started practising an explicit teaching of reading strategies within specific subjects for grades 7 – 9. These reading strategies have been implemented together with scaffolding, which means that a teacher gradually empowers students to lead a reading and text comprehension exercise.

Το Ευρωπαϊκό Δίκτυο Πολιτικής για τη Σχολική Ηγεσία (EPNoSL) έχει αναπτύξει ένα εργαλείο για τον προβληματισμό, τον προσδιορισμό των προκλήσεων και τη θέση σε προτεραιότητα των τομέων δράσης πολιτικής για την υποστήριξη και την ενίσχυση της διεύθυνσης των σχολείων με στόχο την ισότητα και τη μάθηση. Απευθύνεται σε φορείς χάραξης πολιτικής, σχολικές αρχές, σχολικούς φορείς, ερευνητές και ινστιτούτα εκπαίδευσης διευθυντών. Το School Leadership Toolkit (Εργαλειοθήκη για τη Διεύθυνση των Σχολείων) έχει σχεδιαστεί προκειμένου να υποστηρίζει την ανάλυση του τρόπου αλληλεπίδρασης των διαφορετικών πολιτικών και των προγραμμάτων διεύθυνσης του σχολείου και της επιρροής τους στη συνολική ικανότητα των σχολικών διευθυντών και των σχολείων τους να διαχειρίζονται αποτελεσματικά και συστηματικά τις προκλήσεις που αντιμετωπίζουν τα σχολεία τους σε θέματα ισότητας και μάθησης. Προσφέρει μια σειρά από χρήσιμο υλικό, βίντεο, περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες και εργαλεία σχετικά με τις διάφορες πτυχές της διεύθυνσης των σχολείων.