Supporting teachers to use new strategies and showing children that reading can be fun are effective ways to tackle general disinterest and low reading attainment among young people in Europe.
Cecilia Iuga, Senior Advisor at the Romanian Ministry of Education, discusses her experiences implementing teacher-to-teacher mentorship programmes as part of a European Commission peer-learning activity.
The importance of mobilising resources within the school and community and the importance of schools participating in networks is highlighted by a new report on inclusive blended learning strategies from the working group on schools.
School leadership plays a crucial role in defining the vision, values, and climate of a school. Horizontal approaches such as distributed or middle leadership are becoming increasingly popular, whereby school leaders foster a culture of collective engagement and responsibility.
Everyone has a skill they can teach. That is the underlying idea of the Estonian Future Makers initiative, which encourages community members and professionals to engage with learners both in schools and in workplaces.