Principals in todays’ schools are leaders and school leaders have to take into account many powerful factors in their operational and strategic work: legislation, curriculum, local authorities, parents, pupils, financial resources, socioeconomic environment, competition, etc. Many of these factors are constantly changing and beyond the school leader’s control. Good management is not enough.
Here principals find some supportive materials on how to do their work well, and how to support teachers and staff.
- NUTRITION
- Awareness
- Preparation
- Planning healthier eating patterns
- Whole school approach versus classroom practice
- From the local source into my school!
- Participation – Checklist: How to bring everybody in the project
- Survey in my school: Who knows what about nutrition
- Health and fun fair! "Some tips on how to organize a healthy food festival in your school"
- Action
- ACTIVE SCHOOL
- COMMUNICATION
- PARTICIPATION
- Awareness
- Preparation
- Action
- A 5 step process for democratic action taking
- Class Council
- Methods - collecting, clustering, prioritizing, voting, consensus seeking
- Methods - Conflict resolution, world café, deliberation forum
- Methods - survey for opinion polling, feedback, evaluation
- Poster 1 - Four basic steps of participation
- Poster 2 - Community Participation
- Poster 3 - To what extent are we part of the project?
- Poster 4 - Participation Priorities
- CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES
- LEARNING
- Awareness
- Preparation
- Action
- The school as a learning community
- The culture of learning
- The Council of Europe’s model of competences for democratic culture (CDC)
- Teaching as a whole-school approach
- How can people live together?
- Linking learning to the real world: Checking my teaching objectives
- Assessing and evaluating vs. testing and controlling
- Value-based teaching and learning as prevention of behavior problems at school
- Teaching as a factor of democracy
- Knowing and understanding diversity at school
- At the beginning or at the end: My personal educational history
- HUMAN RIGHTS BASED SCHOOL
- Inclusiveness of my Human-Rights-Based School
- Effectiveness of my Human Rights-Based School
- Assessing wellness-related policies, safety, and protection in my Human Rights-Based school
- Assessing the gender-friendliness of my Human-Rights-Based School
- Assessment of the involvement of the family, the community, and the students in the development of a Human-Rights-Based School
- LEADERSHIP
Eight topics
Through eight different topics you can implement democratic life in your school.By clicking on one of the topics you will find handouts to:
- better understand some basics on the topic (awareness)
- to prepare yourself and your school for implementation (preparation)
- give you concrete proposals to implement (action).
