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Integration of immigrants students

Guideline for Policy Makers

10. Policy Implications

Policies should take into account the various educational partners.

Serious consideration needs to be given to design programs and initiatives with strategies as diverse as the immigrant students they seek to serve.
Have in mind the design of interventions focusing on improving educational, social and cultural opportunities for immigrant students, as well as for their families – address the educational issues without forgetting their family contexts.
Work with multiple city agencies to bridge gaps at reaching at immigrant students.
Design policies aimed at enabling school organizations to engage with the issue of integration of immigrant students as a top priority of their educational projects.
Institutions benefit from hearing the voices of all individuals. Support immigrant students to engage with local civic processes – for example, school board decisions, local elections, and so on.
Work on policies and programs to encourage preschools and elementary schools to offer dual immersion or dual language instruction.

Publications From the School Safety Net Portal

“Melting classes” Journey through the interculturality school
The book, written by Annick Bonnefond (Belgium), proposes a five-step path into the area ofinterculturality, inviting all stakeholders involved to view the multicultural dimension positively as it has become a characteristic of our societies.
An Intercultural School – Citizenship, participation and interaction: the resources of a multicultural society”,.
The work of Aluisi Tosolini, Simone Giusti, Gabriella Papponi Morelli (Italy) is the result of a collaboration to raise awareness of intercultural issues initiated by the USP of Grosseto, which promoted the establishment of a provincial network in order to train school staff, share experiences and strengthen ties throughout the territory.

Training Sources From the School Safety Net Portal

Immigrant Children and Youth: Enabling Their Success at School
This publication, written by Howard Adelman and Linda Taylor, focuses on implications for school improvement policy and practice.
DASPA, Service to welcome and educate newly arrived students
Ministry of compulsory education – Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Belgium).
Integrating Immigrant Children into Schools in Europe
EACEA (Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency) Eurydice.

Reports

Les défis de l'intégration à l'école
Report of the High Council for Integration (France) 28th of January 2011.
Donner la parole aux jeunes
Report 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.