New EPNoSL publication: Promoting the policy agenda on school leadership from the perspective of equity and learning

Promoting the policy agenda on school leadership from the perspective of equity and learning is developed in the frame of the European Policy Network of School Leadership (EPNoSL) project EPA is part of. Although it focuses mostly on school leaders, head teachers themselves, it can be used as a good tool for training parents for participating in distributed leadership and school leadership in general.

EPNoSL July newsletter with invitation to Nice

EPNoSL is organizing its next Peer Learning Activity (PLA) in Nice, France at the end of September. EPA is attending the event and will report on it but all EPA members interested are welcome to join, too. The event that will be attended by members of the wider school leadership stakeholder community, including policy makers, educational leaders (school principals and head teachers, and teacher educators), researchers, representatives of professional associations, parents and students. 

You can read more about the event and other news of the European Policy Network on School Leadership in the Newsletter here

Challenges and Opportunities for Organised Parents in the Future of Europe

EPA held its second General Assembly and Conference in Brussels. The topic was the role and possibilities of parents in the next budgetary and parliamentary period of the EU both starting in 2014. Our Slovenian member, ZASSS collected lots of useful links based on the conference programme that all parents' associations in Europe can use to broaden parents' information on Europe as well as for planning new projects.

Opening and welcome words

• Dr. Renate Heinisch, EESC
• Mrs. Silvana Koch-Mehrin, MEP ALDE
• Mrs. Edit Herczog, MEP PES

Parenting Support in Europe, Daniel Molinuevo, Eurofund

• 2013, Daniel Molinuevo, Parenting support in Europe
• Comment Paper for the Eurochild peer review seminar, Daniel Molinuevo
• Access to parenting services for Roma and migrant families for Roma and migrant families, Daniel Molinuevo, Dublin, 5th February 2013

European Platforms and Initiatives for EU2020

• Audrey Firth, EUCIS-LLL – the European Life-Long Learning Platform
• Ana Gorey, MEET - ECI on a High Quality European Education for All
• Ana Gorey, President of MEET, speaks about the ECI on European Education
• Sarah Cooke O’Dowd, SIRIUS Network
• Daniel Kropf, Learning for Well-Being
• L4WB Children's Charter
• Learning for Well-being - Daniel Kropf

European NGO’s for EU2020

• Kathy Kikis-Papadakis, European Policy Network on School Leadership
• EPNoSL Parent Questionnaire
• Agnes Uhereczky, COFACE
• Interview with Agnes Uhereczky on cyberbullying
• Andrea Witt, Eurochild
• Early intervention and prevention in family and parenting support
• Ida Kreutzman, OBESSU
• Marie-france Mailhos, AEDE
• Association Européenne des Enseignants (The European Association of Teachers)
• 2009/10, Sens [public], MARIE-FRANCE MAILHOS, Apprendre et enseigner l'Europe : un jeu de piste dans les champs disciplinaires
• Blandine Smilansky, Euroclio

Workshop

• EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE, A WHITE PAPER
• parentsparticipation.eu
• IPPE Project (Indicators of Parental Involvement in Compulsory Education)
• IPPE Indicators
• June 2003, Professor Charles Desforges with Alberto Abouchaar, The Impact of Parental Involvement, Parental Support and Family Education on Pupil Achievements and Adjustment: A Literature Review
• Epstein's Six Types of Involvement
• Epstein's Framework of Six Types of Involvement
• Highlighting Parent Involvement in Education
• PARENT INVOLVEMENT, Tips, Tools, and Strategies for Parents and Professionals
• Parental Involvement
• Parental Involvement: From Communication to Conferences
• Parent Involvement In Early Childhood Education
• Parents as Partners in their Children's Learning
• What is Parent Involvement?
• The Six Slices of Parental Involvement
• Help Your Child Succeed in School

Thank you for this collection, Janko Korosec!

EPNoSL Parent Questionnaire

The European Policy Network on School Leadership (EPNoSL) asked EPA to distribute and promote the anwering of a questionnaire for parents. The aim of the questionnaire is to study the head teachers attributes in
relation to pupils/students transition (from kindergarten to university) and in relation to parents. Please share the link(s) that make it possible for parents in your country to fill it. Also we ask all EPA-members to encourage all parents in the country to do the questionnaire.