Red Ball:Reflecting, Empowering, Developing: Becoming Active Lifelong Learner, a scenario about social inclusion and friendship

RED BALL (Reflecting, Empowering, Developing: Becoming Active Lifelong Learner) is a project based on the theory of School Improvement where the progress and development of school itself, and education in general, starts from bottom up. School Improvement supports active lifelong learning, inclusive practices, reduce of learner’s fail, elimination of prejudice and xenophobia. Our vision is to empower ourselves (teachers and pupils) as lifelong learners using multiple ways and tools: learner's reflection, the implementation of inclusive practices, the collaborative methods of learning, the non formal and informal education approaches and the study of culture - tradition. This way we believe that we will enhance the joy of collaboration within and between schools and the will of active ongoing learning and teaching. At this exact point RED BALL is supported as an acronym because we aim to transform learning into joyful and likeable procedure, as the acronym suggests, using the words that compose it. Finally, we are sure that during this project and through this collaboration we will manage to build strong connections and friendship between participants (teachers, pupils, and wider lifelong learning community), combating this way any possible prejudice and xenophobia between countries, establishing our european identity and managing school improvement for all. For this purpose, we will study, communicate, collaborate, come closer with project meetings, use media and internet technology, we will implement an ongoing and a final evaluation of the procedure, disseminate our work within schools and outside of them, and produce ongoing and final products. Our main final products will be a website, an interface platform, a customs and a recipe book, a partnership vocabulary.

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