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Guideline for Head Teachers

10. Defining a School Policy for Integration of Immigrant Students

Address the problem in a multidimensional way.
Integrate the school policy into a wider community policy for integration of immigrant students.
Work with multiple local agencies to bridge gaps at reaching immigrant populations.
Define immigrant students’ integration as a priority on the design of your school project.
Communicate with the local community and the educational sector, tell them what you are doing and achieving on this behalf.

Publications From the School safety Net Portal

School Practices and Equity
The study, written by Benoît De Waele (Belgium) and published by (SeGEC), explores local experiences to find out practices that could lead to a school dynamics that is favourable to school results.
“Melting classes” Journey through the interculturality school (« Melting classes » Voyage à l’école de l’interculturalité)
The book, written by Annick Bonnefond (Coord. at “ChanGements pour l’Egalité”) (Belgium), proposes a five-step path in the country of interculturality, inviting all stakeholders involved to view the multicultural dimension positively as it has become a characteristics of our societies.
An Intercultural School – Citizenship, participation and interaction: the resources of a multicultural society
This volume is the result of a participatory planning process involving different schools of all levels in the Province of Grosseto (Italy).
Per una scuola dell’inclusione (A comprehensive school)
The analysis of the integration process of immigrant minors in the education system, written by Graziella Favaro (Italy), shows 5 critical issues.

Training Sources From the School safety Net Portal

Immigrant Children and Youth: Enabling Their Success at School
The paper, written by Howard Adelman and Linda Taylor, mainly deals with immigrant children and youth. This short article focuses on what is necessary for school improvement policy and practice.
DASPA, Service to welcome and educate newly arrived students
Ministry of compulsory education – Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Strategies for Success: Engaging Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools
Aída Walqui, West Ed (San Francisco, California)
Webinar: Opening Doors: Innovative Strategies for Immigrant
Cities of Migration hosted a webinar to learn about winning educational strategies and practical lessons for immigrant student success.
Preparing the Children of Immigrants for Early Academic Success
This paper, written by Robert Crosnoe, mainly touch on three types of interventions which might reduce disparities between the children who were born in the United States, and their counterparts.
Breaking down the barriers to immigrant students’ success at school
The article, written by Marilyn Achiron, focuses on education which is one of the best ways of integrating immigrant children and their families into their new home countries.

Reports

Les défis de l'intégration à l'école
Recommendations of the High Council for Integration on religious expression in the spaces.
Donner la parole aux jeunes
Report on ill-accompanied children by the general delegate for children’s rights in French-speaking Belgium, November 2011 (Belgium).

Index

20 December 2014

Final Partners’ meeting

The fourth partners’ meeting took place in Florence (IT) on 15 December 2014. The meeting had the objective to check the activities carried out since the third meeting of the project and share and assess the in progress results. A special focus has been dedicated to the presentation of the strategies to solve the case scenarios.