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Inclusive schoolcommunities

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This website is for you and for your school if you want to become more inclusive as a community. Here, you will find tools and steps, as well as inspiring examples.

There are different ways to use the website. You can begin at the beginning and follow all the steps, but you could start anywhere you’d like, really. It depends on your starting point and on where you’d like to go.

If you’d like some help in finding where you are, it would be a good idea to start with the Reflective tool. If you don’t know where you’d like to go, it might be a good idea to start with the Inspiring examples. If you’re wondering how to get there, then go to Taking next steps. If you first want to know more about inclusion, then go to Understanding inclusive school communities for more information. Please explore, enjoy and discover!

Webbased toolkit

Developing Inclusive
School Communities

Schools are vibrant communities where pupils & students, teachers, school leaders & other staff members, parents & guardians, and other professionals in the wider community of the school come together to support learning and development of all pupils and students.

This website provides support for schools (formal and informal school leaders and staff teams) in strengthening the inclusiveness of their community

Together we are strong

Giving this wide variety of stakeholders a voice and recognizing their contribution and role within that community is an ongoing challenge for schools.

Start with the toolkit

This webbased toolkit aims to support schools to strengthen this sense of community. Based on your specific context and challenges, the toolkit offers practical and targeted suggestions for your next steps towards inclusiveness.

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"I consider this web-based toolkit to be a very well-designed and structured comprehensive resource for educators and (in)formal school leaders seeking to deepen their understanding of inclusive education and facilitate its implementation within their school community. It begins by defining inclusive education and its significance then transition into practical steps for effective implementation by providing actionable strategies. Inspiring examples from schools that have successfully created or adapted inclusive practices are featured showcasing real-life stories of positive change toward inclusiveness. In addition, the web-based toolkit includes reflective tools design to prompt users to assess their current practices and identify areas for growth. In all, I would argue that this website is characterized by an effective multifaceted approach that not only informs its users (teachers, etc.) but also would potentially equip them to embrace inclusivity as a transformative journey."

User experiences

"I appreciate the experience that I have gained in this process. My eyes have been opened and so have the eyes of many others.”

““What is important is that the school leader and teachers have the courage to express their own ideas and experiences. This is the only way to get to common ground and to find potential solutions.”

“We have had some very useful discussions about inclusive school culture.”

"Once we grasped the concept of an inclusive school community, we could start to explore practices that will strengthen and reinforce that community. We realised, for example, that we could do much more collaboration with other schools in the area."

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Disclaimer - Contact information This website provides support for schools (school leaders and teacher teams) in strengthening the inclusiveness of their community and is developed with support from the ERASMUS+ programme