Skoleledelse

UNICEF Serbia and the civil society organisation Centre for Education Policy with the support of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development Republic of Serbia  implemented the project “Combating Early School Leaving in Serbia”.

This project aimed to contribute to decreasing drop-out and early school leaving of children and adolescents through development, establishment, and implementation of the school-based model for early identification of children at risk of dropping out and intervention in situations where dropping-out is taking place.

Combating drop-out and ESL in Serbia has been recognised as a policy priority area.  The Strategy for Education Development in Serbia 2020 (SEDS 2020) calls for the provision of high-quality education for all, an increase of students’ coverage and attainment at all levels of education by maintaining the relevance of education and increasing efficiency. The Strategy implementation is primarily focused on the development of human capital in Serbia, thus underlines importance of the inclusion of pupils from vulnerable and marginalised groups (Roma and children from poor families, children with disabilities and from rural areas etc.).

The CroCooS - Prevent dropout! project was developed in the framework of the EC proposal "Implementation of the European strategic objectives in education and training" under the Lifelong Learning Programme to support innovative policy solutions to reduce and prevent early leaving from education and training (ELET). The main aim of the CroCooS project, which was implement between 2014 and 17, was to contribute to the development of an institutional early warning system (EWS) for preventing early leaving from education and training. It also tested its applicability with national pilots focusing on contextual factors affecting the evaluation.
Regional needs addressed included: sensitizing the staff of each school on the need to address the problem of dropout; actively involving teachers in monitoring students and working with them; developing better relationships between students and teachers; strengthening pupils' sense of belonging to the class and the school; developing relationships of trust by being supportive and ensuring a safe school climate.

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.

Målet med prosjektet Preventing School Failure (PSF) var å se nærmere på manglende inkludering og rettferdighet i skolesystemet ved å sette søkelys på sammenhengen mellom mislykket skolegang og inkluderende politikk . Prosjektet ville undersøke den vitenskapelige dokumentasjonen på at inkluderende skolepolitikk kan forebygge mislykket skolegang – både for enkeltpersoner og for systemet som helhet. 

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.