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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.

15 November 2014

Final Conference

The Final Conference on the School Safety Net Project will take place in Florence on 16 December 2014. The conference aims to present the results achieved by the project and the impact that the project deliverables had in the European countries involved. This event is addressed to teachers, head masters, students and policy makers. Conference is funded by LLP Programme and the participation is free of charge.

25 October 2014

Strategies available online

The strategies to solve the case scenarios are available on the project portal below each case scenario. Each strategy point out the correct behaviour of each protagonist of the case scenario.

15 September 2014

Solution for the case scenarios

Teachers from different countries are currently involved in the identification of strategies to solve the case scenarios. The strategies will be the result of a transnational cooperation based on an asynchronous exchange of opinions and on the participation in virtual meetings to agree on the final version of the strategy.

15 August 2014

Testimonials of participants

Teachers, headmasters, policy makers, students and parents were asked to assess the School Safety Net project. The testimonials are available on the project portal.

15 July 2014

Case Scenarios

A collection of case scenarios on early school leaving is available on the project portal. All case scenarios have been developed on the basis of the real experiences described by the teachers involved in the project and adapting them in order to cover more exemplary and complex challenges that teachers should face at school.

15 June 2014

Links to the School Inclusion Portal

Several educational web sites promoted the School Safety Net project through a dedicated link. The complete list of web sites promoting the School Safety Net Portal is available in the section dedicate links of the project web site.

8 - 9 May 2014

3rd Project Partners Meeting

The third partners meeting took place in Castelo Branco (PT) on 8 – 9 May 2014. During the meeting the partners presented the guidelines produced and to plan the production of the case scenarios and the related solutions.

15 April 2014

Teachers’ sharing of opinions

Teachers participating in the School Safety Net project are currently posting their comments related to the experiences of their colleagues. If you want to participate in the discussion you can contact one of the partner of the project and join the activities.

20 March 2014

Teachers’ experiences on the prevention of early school leaving

The teachers’ involved in the School Safety Net project shared their experiences in the prevention of early school leaving on the project portal. Teachers can take advantage of methodologies and strategies shared by their colleagues in order to prevent and tackle this phenomenon.

28 February 2014

Guidelines on Students with Learning Difficulties

Guidelines for policy makers, headmasters, teachers, parents and students on the Students with Learning Difficulties are available on the Portal. Each guideline provide the user with different links to other resources in order to acquire useful skills and competences.

15 February 2014

Guidelines on School Bullying Prevention

Guidelines for policy makers, headmasters, teachers, parents and students on the School Bullying Prevention are available on the Portal. Each guideline provide the user with different links to other resources in order to acquire useful skills and competences.

30 January 2014

Guidelines on Integration of Immigrants Students

Guidelines for policy makers, headmasters, teachers, parents and students on the Integration of Immigrants Students are available on the Portal. Each guideline provide the user with different links to other resources in order to acquire useful skills and competences.

20 January 2014

School Safety Net is on Facebook

At the beginning of 2014, the School Safety Net Facebook page was created. Few days after its creation, the page on Facebook has 21 Likes. The majority of School Safety Net followers on Facebook are school teachers and experts on early school leaving. On Facebook, School Safety Net shares information about the activities carried out by the network. On Facebook NELLIP also shares success stories, publications, training sources on early school leaving. School Safety Net’s Facebook page is available at: https://www.facebook.com/schoolsafetynet?fref=ts

15 January 2014

Guidelines on Identification of Students’ at Risk

Guidelines for policy makers, headmasters, teachers, parents and students on the Identification of Students at Risk are available on the Portal. Each guideline provide the user with different links to other resources in order to acquire useful skills and competences.

18 December 2013

School Safety Net Project presented in Florence

The School Safety Net Project was presented in Florence during the award ceremony of the students who obtained their degree of qualification from the new regional system of vocational education and training. The School Safety Net Project has been reported as an initiative in the field of good teaching practices that contribute to innovate and optimize the schools' activities, especially vocational schools, which are working to help reduce early school leaving. More than 150 participants were involved in the event.

20 November 2013

Guidelines on the prevention of early school leaving

Partners are currently working on the production of guidelines for headmasters, teachers, parents, students and policy makers in order to provide them with the skills to prevent early school leaving. For each of the four thematic area 5 guidelines will be produced: one for each of the final users

3 October 2013

2nd Project Partners Meeting

The second partners meeting took place in Seville (ES) on 3 – 4 October 2013. During the meeting the partners presented the success stories collected through the interviews with school directors, teachers, students and parents. During the meeting the strategy and methodology to develop the guidelines were discussed and approved.

16 September 2013

Database of training sources on early school leaving

The School Safety Net partnership is now reviewing training and educational sources for headmasters, teachers, students and parents in order provide them with skills and competences to prevent early school leaving due to integration of Immigrant students in the school environment, support to students with learning disabilities and prevention of school bullying.

7 July 2013

Associated partners

Associated partners are joining the School Safety Net project. The members are organizations interested in the prevention of the phenomenon of early school leaving. The associated partners have the possibility to exchange of know-how and experience on this topic and develop contacts with other European experts in the field.

15 June 2013

School Safety Net at The Future of Education International Conference

The School Safety Net project was presented in the framework of the third edition of the International Conference “The Future of Education” held on 13-14 June 2013. The third edition of The Future of Education Conference brought together 300 participants from more than 60 countries. In the framework of the conference a round table on early school leaving was organised

4 June 2013

School Safety Net presented at University of Seville

Rafael López Flores presented the School Safety Net project in Seville University on 27 – 29 May 2013. The event was attended by teachers, psychologists, pedagogues, psychologists and social educators. The project was presented and a special mention to conflict resolution as a significant element in the school coexistence was carried out.

4 May 2013

Identification of Success Stories on Early School Leaving

The partnership indentified and reviewed more than 100 success stories related to the issue of early school leaving. The success stories present the perspectives of all the main actors involved in the early school leaving issue. These are: headmasters, teachers, students and parents.

5 April 2013

Schools involvement in the Chemistry Is All Around Network

The project partners are now collecting the enrolment forms of the schools and of the teachers that will be involved in the School Safety Net project. For each school it will be possible to involve directors, teachers and students. These actors will be involved in the transnational discussion on the material available on the Portal: success stories, training sources, publications and teachers experiences

2 March 2013

1st Project Meeting in Florence

The School Safety Net 1st Partners’ Meeting took place in Florence, Italy, on 18 and 19 February 2013. During the meeting the project partners presented the schools involved in their countries, focusing the attention on the situation about early school leaving.

4 February 2013

Project Coordinators’ Meeting in Brussels

On 24 – 25 January 2013 the project promoter, attended the Leonardo Da Vinci, Grundtvig, Key Activity 4 projects' meeting organized by the EACEA in Brussels. The meeting was addressed to the coordinators of projects selected for Community funding in 2012. The two-day event has been designed to provide coordinators with detailed information on administrative, technical and financial aspects of the management of their projects and to facilitate networking among participants.

02 January 2013

The School Safety Net Project

The School Safety Net project has been funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme (Dissemination and Exploitation of Results, and Exchange of Good Practice (Key Activity 4) The project intends to address the need of European school systems to prevent early school leaving focusing the attention on: Early identification of students at risk, integration of immigrant students, support to students with learning disabilities, prevention of school bullying

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.