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      <pubDate>2017-06-02 16:00:37 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>LEARNING DIARY </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Shared leadersip&nbsp; and school development &nbsp;<br>My names' Alesssandra Basso<br>I'm Italian.<br>I'm Primary school teacher and I  work at I.C. Villaputzu (Sardinia)</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-02 16:02:15 UTC</pubDate>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-02 16:10:55 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1- Modules &amp; Activities</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/175000940</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><br></div><div>The course lasts 6 weeks and is divided into 4 modules, one module per week with an extra 2 weeks to complete all work at the end. <strong>We will be opening up a new module every Monday.</strong> Once open, the modules will remain open until the end of the course so you can always still catch up at a later time throughout the course.<br><br></div><div>Each module consists of</div><ul><li>a number of videos,</li><li>reflection and discussion activities</li><li>a more formal self-evaluation and planning activity</li></ul><div>2- Duration &amp; Workload</div><div>The course will last in total 6 weeks, from 29th May 2017 to 4th July 2017. So <strong>the final deadline for all work is the 4th July 2017</strong>.<br><br>3- Discussions &amp; Exchanges</div><div>As part of the activities, you are welcome to <strong>share and discuss materials, opinions or experiences related to this course via a variety of online tools,</strong> which are integrated directly into each module. We have chosen these tools based on their user friendliness so you should not have to sign up to use them and most of them should be fairly self-explanatory. You will see that for most sections we have focused on the Padlet tool. For an introduction check <a href="http://www.europeanschoolnetacademy.eu/web/mentoring-in-schools/q-a">this FAQ</a> on how to post on Padlet.<br><br>4- Assessment &amp; Certification</div><div>As part of the course you will be completing a self-evaluation and development plan that should help you identify some concrete steps you need to implement at your school to move towards a more distributed leadership approach.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>In each module you will continue working on your self-evaluation and development plan.&nbsp; In each module you are also free to submit your self-evaluation and development plan for peer feedback.<br><br></div><div>While in Modules 1-3 this is optional, <strong>in Module 4 this is a required part of the course and includes the submission of your self-evaluation and development plan as well as providing feedback to 3 of your course peers</strong>.<br><br></div><div><strong>Only if you complete these steps in Module 4 you qualify for the course certificate.</strong>&nbsp;<br><br></div><div><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <title>Course intro</title>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-02 16:17:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Module 1: Distributed Leadership</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>On this course, <strong>we will be exploring the concept of distributed leadership in schools </strong>and how this can shape a school. Distributed leadership is:</div><div><em>“a form of shared leadership that is underpinned by a more collective and inclusive philosophy than traditional leadership theory that focuses on skills, traits and behaviours of individual leaders”</em></div><div>(Jones, Harvey, Lefoe &amp; Ryland, 2012).<br>We start out the course in this first module by exploring the concept of distributed leadership, why it is important for schools, and what factors impact on it, as well as reflecting about the current leadership approach used at our own school.<br><br></div><div><strong>Learning Objectives for this Module are:</strong></div><ol><li>Understand concept of distributed leadership (DL)</li><li>Understand benefits of using DL</li><li>Understand factors enabling DL</li><li>Reflect about situation at own school and start survey of current practices</li></ol><div>More information and extra resources<br><a href="http://toolkit.schoolleadership.eu/"><strong>School Leadership Toolkit</strong></a> which you can access directly <a href="http://toolkit.schoolleadership.eu/">here</a></div><div><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-02 16:20:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>What is distributed leadership</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Leadership is a characteristic of an organization as a whole, not just the individual action of one o few "leaders".<br>Leadership is the outcome of lots of people's actions and interactions.<br>Distributed leadership includes  involvement by teachers, students, school staff.<br>Distributed leadership is  a leadership as emergent and participatory, it is based on  values of equity and democratic citizenship.<br>There can be degrees of distributed leadership it depends  how extends it is.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-02 16:30:29 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Now briefly reflect on the following questions and share your response in the Padlet below. </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><em>1.1 What kind of leadership styles do you have experience with (as a leader or not)? What are the pros and cons of these different styles? Which one do you prefer as a leader / as a team member?</em><br>I've been Primary school teacher for 25 years.<br>I teach in a small village in Sardinia and I've experiemented different types of distributed leadership: graeter or lesser extent.<br>I think in Italy now, school policy is&nbsp; changing&nbsp; and is orientated to a less extent distributed leadership in comparison to the past.&nbsp;<br>Fully democratic leadership it would be the best, in my opinion, but it needs to be reached step by step.&nbsp;<br>The same as a teacher I try to foster distributed leadership in my class, to give responsibilities to pupils and to make any decision more partecipatory.... it isn't easy, but results at the end reward for your hard work.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>1.2 Why use Distributed Leadership in Schools?</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>To promote inclusive, holistic learning<br>To promote innovation<br>To promote democratic citizenship<br><br>Where distributed leadership for equity and learning works well, it increases:<br>Capacity - mobilizing knowledge, expertise &amp; energy<br>Co-operative learning: People are enabled to work together and to share experience and ideas.<br>Motivation and commitment<br><br><br></div><div><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-03 18:43:30 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Thinking about your own school, to what extent does your school face the challenges of increased accountability for learning, enabling innovation and promoting democratic citizenship? What other challenges/concerns exist at your school that might be (or are already being) addressed/solved (even indirectly) through a distributed leadership approach?</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Since  my school has been involved in european project ( Erasmus eTwinning) there were some changes in our organization: first of all the activities, into the school curriculum, are more shared with pupils, parents, local community; we strongly support the cooperative learning and peer learning. As concerning the school, we are different schools linked to one Institute,there are differet approaches. I'm the person in charge for my school  and we have been created  a good  team<br>( this is  my opinion) with a shared responsibility, we thake the decision together ( of course we need to discuss them with the headteacher). Our  whole school is orientated to an innovative approach, which is building year by year.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>1.4 Self-Evaluation &amp; Development Plan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Description of current practice<br></strong>The self-evaluation and development plan is there to help you consolidate your reflections and sharing of ideas on the course and help you to identify concrete, actionable steps that will move your school towards a more distributed leadership approach. The idea is that as you finish the course you have a sort of action plan that you can start putting into practice across your school or, if you have been working on the course individually, to use it as a starting point for a discussion with your colleagues at school&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Self Evaluation &amp; Development Plan</title>
         <author>alessandra_bass</author>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-03 20:44:36 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Module 2: Developing Distributed Leadership</title>
         <author>alessandra_bass</author>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-10 20:41:22 UTC</pubDate>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-10 20:45:48 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>At the end of the first module you started noting down the current situation at your school as part of the Self-Evaluation &amp; Development Plan. Based on this first assessment which of the five levers do you feel require most work at your school? </title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/175966733</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>In my opinion, in my school,  it is necessary to broaden the partecipatory culture, but  the key level 4 requires more work, because <br>the culture of evaluation as  reflection on our actions andtheir  impact on the school, is not achieved  yet.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-10 20:46:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Learning Objectives in this module are:<br></strong><br></div><ol><li>Understand the conditions and steps to developing DL at school</li><li>Reflecting on the areas of development at own school</li><li>Investigate the level of agreement with own assessment of school’s leadership approach</li><li>Investigate the level of accessibility of institutional structures at own school</li><li>Evaluating compatibility of existing own school structures with DL</li><li>Identifying existing school values </li></ol>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-10 20:50:17 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2.2 Facilitating a Shared Understanding</title>
         <author>alessandra_bass</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/175967434</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>DL needs to be continually cultivated and nurtured in supportive ideas and values that people genuinely share and are committed to</strong>. Looking at it in this way, developing, DL is rooted in a greater understanding of how things get done, how the various interactions between people bring about an end result and what values are most important in distributing leadership in inclusive ways that benefit learning.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-10 21:07:29 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>To what extent is your assessment of the school leadership approach shared by others at your school?</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><br><br>Somewhatshared<br><br><br><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <title>2.3 Developing a Participatory Culture &amp; Open Social Environment</title>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-10 21:09:44 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Does your school have a set of organisational values defined? If so, do they work and are they accepted and acted upon? And how were they defined? If not, what type of values would best describe your school?</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/175967559</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>My school&nbsp; outlines its values in the "three years School&nbsp; Plan". Our &nbsp; values are coexistence, positive interaction with peers and with adults, valuing uniqueness, singularity and cultural identity of each student. Our plans have been focused on aspects related to&nbsp; learning environments innovation.&nbsp; They were approved inside the teachers&nbsp; meeting. Not all teachers totally agree, but there are a large&nbsp; majority of teachers who acept them&nbsp; and try to do their best to innovate our school.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>2.4 Enabling Institutional Structures &amp; Evaluating DL</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<ul><li><strong>Participatory:</strong> Evaluating distributed leadership for equity and learning needs to <strong>involve staff and students</strong>, but also other school stakeholders </li><li><strong>Examining the degree of DL and hierarchy: </strong>Recognise that developing DLE is a journey and that schools will have both hierarchy and open social relationships, so evaluation examines the degrees of DLE and hierarchy in a school </li><li><strong>Focusses on student learning and inclusiveness</strong></li></ul><div><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <title>You can also share any reflections in the Padlet</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>In my school (as in all schools in Italy) there are:&nbsp;<br>1. Parents, teachers and administrative staff Council-&nbsp;<br>2. Teachers committees<br>3. Teachers working groups.&nbsp;<br>This&nbsp; does not mean that we have an ideal&nbsp; DL. There are some difficult and, in the end, the&nbsp; final decision is taking by the principal, but we can discuss&nbsp; in group about important decision and changes in our school.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-11 21:02:49 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Self Evaluation &amp; Development Plan</title>
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         <title>Module n.3 </title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/176731495</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Teacher leadership<br><br><strong>Learning Objectives for this module are<br></strong><br></div><ol><li>Understand the concept of Teacher Leadership</li><li>Understand how Teacher Leadership can benefit a school</li><li>Understand steps to enable Teacher Leadership</li><li>Reflect on own teacher leadership approach or potential</li><li>Reflect on the enabling factors at school to allow for teacher leadership</li><li>Reflect on the impact of teachers taking a leadership role and how to address such impact</li></ol>]]></description>
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         <title>Teacher leadership</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/176733474</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><br>What teacher leadership means  and why it is important to enable it at school.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Teachers Leaders</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Teachers who act informally or formally as teacher leaders take on four roles:&nbsp;<br><br></div><ul><li>as teachers they are oriented consistently to the achievement of their students,&nbsp;</li><li>as professionals they continually develop their own practice in relation to current external and experiential knowledge with a focus on effectiveness,&nbsp;</li><li>as role models they inspire colleagues and have a positive influence on others' development, and</li><li>as ambassadors they communicate the vision and goals of their school internally and externally.</li></ul>]]></description>
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         <title>If you are a teacher, given the definition above, do you feel as a teacher leader? Which of the four roles do you confidently follow? Who at your school would you consider a teacher leader? </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>First of all I would say that I completely agree with Rosaria. I try to encourage my pupils to achieved their goals and try to enhance my teaching skills and strategies, to innovate my teaching styles to offer new and better opportunities to my students.As a e twinning ambassador and Erasmus plus coordinator, I try to encourage my colleagues to develop and improve their competencies, through the online and on-site European opportunities.<br>Moreover as school cordinatoor I try to improve and innovate the school organization; but there are other teachers in the school who are taking an important role in the improvement of school system: two teachers are innovating the maths curriculum and are a lighthouse for other teachers, as well as concerning technologies.<br>I think in the last five years my school has made big changes,<br>even thought more steps are needed .</div>]]></description>
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         <title>3.2 Enabling Teacher Leadership</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>At school level enabling teacher leadership can take many different forms starting with simple recognition of those that act as teacher leaders and ending with comprehensive workshop programmes that stimulate certain reflective approaches and attitudes or outline processes for teachers to become teacher leaders</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Enabling teacher leadership</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/176911604</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Such a comprehensive approach might not be realizable everywhere immediately so let’s consider some other ways to enable teacher leadership. Take a look at the below video for some ideas:</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-19 22:07:26 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>For the examples of teacher leadership identified in section 3.1what enabled these teachers to become teacher leaders? What aspects of your school culture, timetabling, professional development, use of space, compensation schemes, formal functions, etc. enable teachers to take on responsibility and drive forward an area of learning close to their heart? </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I agree with Sevastiani for the first part of his post. As concerning second part in my school teacher leadership is not encouraged, but if you are able to demonstrate&nbsp; your capability you can take an important role in the school, but many time, next to what you care about&nbsp; you have many other appointments who absorbed your energy and time.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><br><br>It is truly interesting to read the other posts. I've experimented same situation, but now in my school it s better. I think colleagues are a bit more equipped for changing. Even thought some teachers are not eager to be fully involved in innovation. <br>One thing that I would like introduce it is the change in school desk layout; I think    there will be  some teachers not happy for this...</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>If you are a school leader or administrator or another stakeholder, think about how the level of irritation caused by teacher leaders could be dealt with. What actions can you take, what support can you provide to ensure teacher leaders are not discouraged when they meet significant reactions from colleagues. If an activity will inevitably lead to resistance, what can be done to manage the situation? Share your ideas in the Tricider below and comment on each other’s suggestions.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Module 4: Involving School Stakeholders</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Learning Objectives:<br></strong><br></div><ol><li>Understand who school stakeholders are</li><li>Develop some ideas, steps to formalise the involvement of students, parents and other schools shaping own school</li><li>Finalising the self-evaluation and distributed leadership school development plan</li><li>Reviewing and providing feedback to the development plans of two peers.</li></ol>]]></description>
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         <title>4.1 Who are School Stakeholders?For the groups identified in the diagram, reflect on, how are they involved in your school already? Where are the contact points? Do you have contact persons to reach out to for each group. What institutional mechanisms are in place to involve them? Also consider which group you engage most with and why? What risks or opportunities are at stake when engaging with each group?</title>
         <author>alessandra_bass</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/177321301</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>As I teach in Primary school students are involved,but there isn't a formal group of students. As concerning parents we have two formal groups at two different levels: first of all there is a contact person for the class: he/she is the for the class: he/she is the at the meeting with class teachers. This role is impportat because&nbsp; if the teachers are able to establish a good relationship with him/ her there is a good probability he/she can engage all parents . There is also a School Council in which are involved parents, teachers, other school staff&nbsp; and the headteacher. Parents who are part of this Council are elected every three year and act as contact people between the shool and&nbsp; parents. The most important decision concerning the school organization, extractivities, budget management&nbsp; are&nbsp; taken here. Even this Council is important and in my opinion a good leadership should make all effort to important and in my opinion a good leadership should make all effort to establish good relationship with the school Council.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>4.2 Engaging Parents – Live Webinar 21st June 16:30h</title>
         <author>alessandra_bass</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/177321624</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Some good questions posed by my peers.<br>Can you suggest different ways of having parents involved in schools that are not the traditional end of term meetings?<br><br>Do you think it´s alright to engage the parents with a LMS (learning platform) or do they need to be at place in school for being engaged?<br><br>If you happen to teach in a very low socio-economic school, families are just not involved no matter what you do. Any suggestions?<br><br>Could you give concrete practices at schools who are engaging parents instead of only involving them? Can you describe any successful methods/strategies to invite/motivate parents to get more engaged in their children’s learning environment at school and to participate in the Parents Council?&nbsp;<br><br>I am very interested in the concept mentioned in the introduction which speaks about "engaging rather than involving " parents. Could you explain this idea in more depth? Thank you in advance.<br>MY REFLECTION<br>I think the last question&nbsp; extremely interesting:&nbsp;</div><var><strong>engage instead of involving</strong></var><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Involving students 1</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Involving students 1 https://youtu.be/Ht42odw6MCA</title>
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         <title>My reflection</title>
         <author>alessandra_bass</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/177341446</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<h1>Students involvement in school is crucial.They should be involve in decision making process, in different ways and shapes, according their age,but it is important to take care their involvement since the beginning, when they are young students, in order to help them to build democratic participation capacity.</h1><div>Ideas</div><div>Pros and cons</div><div>Votes</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Involving Students 2</title>
         <author>alessandra_bass</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/177341599</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>In the video below Ferre Windey identifies some general strategies of how to involve students and how students can shape a schools leadership approach. He also addresses how to overcome common challenges.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Involving students  2</title>
         <author>alessandra_bass</author>
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         <title>My reflections </title>
         <author>alessandra_bass</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/177341666</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>I teach in Primary school, we don't t have a oformal student Council or something like that at this level of education. IN my school there aren't t any type of school groups organization. We try to enhance participation of students in school development, by involve them in discussion about we should do. I for example discuss with them the activities and how we should organize them. Sometimes I propose the topic and then we discuss the better organization for the activities and students give their opinion.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Schools shaping each other  </title>
         <author>alessandra_bass</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/177341705</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>In the video below Anne briefly outlines some ideas ensuring school partnerships can develop and be successful. For me Anne's speech is the mot ineresting part of th course.  I totally agree with her.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-24 13:20:09 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>School Partnerships &amp; eTwinning</title>
         <author>alessandra_bass</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/177341762</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>In the second video, Anne explains in more detail what the eTwinning network is about and how it is a powerful tool to develop school partnerships and thereby shape your schools’ development.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-24 13:23:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>My reflections</title>
         <author>alessandra_bass</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/177341787</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>My school has been involved in e twinning partnership. We just ended an Erasmus plus partnership. At local level my school is part of network with other schools for teacher professional development. We also establish an informal network with experience for example regarding e twinning projects or other interesting activities in which each school is involved. First of all I would say that by the great collaboration wiyh other schools in Europe, thanks to Erasmus and eTwinning our school has changed and innovated its organization.Moreover the partnership with local school is helpful to open the school to better opportunities.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Self-evaluation and development plan identifies some concrete steps you need to implement at your school to move towards a more distributed leadership approach</title>
         <author>alessandra_bass</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/177341863</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>This is my final self evluation...I'm waiting for peers reviews</div>]]></description>
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         <title>My Learning development</title>
         <author>alessandra_bass</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/alessandra_bass/eri6qdpco0kz/wish/177343408</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>At the end of this really interesting MOOC  I would share here, in my Learning diary, what I  have been learning ( I use the present perfect continuous because even if the course is ended, the learning is still in process)<br>1. As a teacher how to take a more active role in the school as part of formal leadership.<br>2. How to collaborate in order to  get involve more colleagues in the decision making process<br>3. How to build more links with external actors<br>4. How to engage parents in the decision making process<br>5. Hot to involve students in the decision making process and expecially that it should be a botton up process instead of a top down, as normally school leaders design  it. <br>6. I also found a confirmation on what I already know and I have experimeted: network with oher schols and other actors are helpful for the  school development and, for istance,  eTwinning is a great network.</div>]]></description>
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