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Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and school shutdown in Portugal, the Boa Água school has initiated a number of new pedagogies to support student learning, including mixed commission, interactive groups and dialogic gatherings. These new methods had been introduced as part of the INCLUD-ED project, which the school joined in 2017.

Indicators on early school leaving and on learning improvement are used in Portugal to promote quality improvement of students? performance and recognise/reward the good work undertaken by all the public schools.

Målet med MiCREATE-prosjektene er å oppmuntre til inklusjon av mangfoldige grupper migrantbarn ved å vedta en barnesentrert tilnærmelse til integreringen av migrantbarn på utdannings- og retningslinjenivå. Forskningsprosjektet stammer fra behovet til å gjennomgå de eksisterende retningslinjene for integrering og har mål om omfattende undersøkelse av nåtidens integreringsprosesser for migrantbarn for å forbedre medvirkningen, deltakelsen og velværet deres.

The network involves 10 school clusters in Portugal (clusters include several schools from pre-school to secondary) that collaborate on a number of issues, such as training plans, sharing experiences and methodologies and, in some cases, even sharing of human resources. In addition, the network develops thematic panels where several issues are discussed with students and intervention partners.

The Plus Class in Portugal provides additional support to selected groups of students with similar skills. The measure is targeted at specific school years according to the pupils? needs in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles of the basic level and the secondary level. It consists of The Plus Class and the Phoenix Project which are class organization models that intend to support all pupils in their learning.

Prosjektet «Raising the Achievement of all Learners in Inclusive Education» (RA) hadde som mål å dokumentere effektiv praksis for å oppnå bedre prestasjoner og styrke skolenes og samfunnets evne til å inkludere og støtte alle elever.

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.

The European Policy Network on School Leadership- EPNoSL has developed a tool to reflect upon, identify challenges and prioritize areas for policy action to support and enhance school leadership for equity and learning. It addresses policy makers, school authorities, school actors, researchers and leadership training institutes. The School Leadership Toolkit is designed to support analyses of the ways different school leadership policies and programs interplay and influence the overall capacity of school leaders and their schools to effectively and persistently address equity and learning challenges in their schools. It contains a range of useful materials, videos, case studies and toolsets on different aspects of school leadership.

The main aim of the Portuguese TEIP Programme is to promote educational inclusion in schools located in disadvantaged areas which include children 'at risk' of social exclusion. Specific improvement plans are developed and promote an improvement cycle in each cluster of schools.