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Marking International Roma Day with the CHAVORE Quest

This year, we are marking the day with the launch of the CHAVORE Quest, an interactive, multilingual experience available in five CHAVORE languages. The Quest introduces a new way of supporting children’s mental health, well-being, and inclusion inviting users to explore, reflect, and learn through a more playful and participatory format.

NEWS - Pervasive School Bullying causes Serious Damage to Society

October 16, 2018

Against School Aggression Project has released a vision document with recommendations against bullying for anyone involved in education and school policy making. The document comprises the outcomes of a three year project, in which several…

NEWS - Designing the Framework for Good Practices

October 10, 2018

A Peer Learning Activity to reinforce quality education in Kosovo. In Kosovo, the need to further develop a durable modus for quality early childhood education, has brought several organizations to produce a manual with best practices. The outlook…

NEWS - INTESYS Increases Cooperation in Early Years Services - Part 9

October 9, 2018

INTESYS shows we are stronger together when striving toward goals. ‘INTESYS certainly opened new dimensions of cooperation,’ says Majda Fajdiga, principal of the Preschool Kekec Grosuplje. These are telling words from an administrator who has worked…

NEWS - Documentation Study on ISSA’s Work on Quality Improvement

October 5, 2018

A Systemic Approach to Quality in Early Childhood Services for children from 3 to 10 years of age. Over the past two years, ISSA has put a lot of effort and thought into developing a documentation study about its networks’ efforts on…

NEWS - To most Roma Children, it was the first time outside their Settlement

October 4, 2018

The Know How Centre has worked with Roma communities for the past 6 years. This year's program however was their most successful until now: they managed to motivate and support Roma parents of 29 children to apply for kindergarten. A huge milestone…

NEWS - Jeff Bezos gives $2 billion to Early Childhood Services

October 2, 2018

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon announced last week that he and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, would create and operate a national network of Montessori preschools. The gesture, a promised 2 billion dollars, particularly surpirsed Montessori organizations and…

NEWS - First Lady of Ukraine opens Inclusive Education Forum

October 1, 2018

Ukrainian Step by Step Foundation and the International Renaissance Foundation are at the very heart of the National School Reform program. Maryna Poroshenko, the first lady of Ukraine, recently opened a four-day Train the Trainer session on…

NEWS - TOY for Inclusion Gets Extended

September 25, 2018

The TOY for Inclusion project and the Early Childhood Education and Care Play Hubs, received support for another 2 years. The project will now run up to January 2021, adding a new location to each country in which they are currently involved. Also,…

NEWS – INTESYS: How can we accomplish more together? – Part 8

September 24, 2018

The INTESYS approach makes services more responsive to real-world situations. ‘The INTESYS project enables us to highlight the processes that lead to joint, early and effective strategies in addressing vulnerable situations…’ says Norma…

NEWS - Le Furet (France) expands ISSA's Network

September 20, 2018

‘The birth of a child mobilizes all the people in his or her community. The family, but also all people in its surrounding social environment. It is during these first years that a child develops its tastes, understands social codes, and feels…

TRAINING - Register for Fundraising for Non-Profits on 26 & 27 November 2018

September 19, 2018

Come join ISSA on this wonderful learning opportunity. A two-day training, designed to help associations, networks and other non-profit organizations to become more sustainable by exploring how to successfully raise funds from private sources such…

NEWS - Study on Fostering Effective Early Learning (FEEL)

September 19, 2018

ISSA brings an interesting study from New South Wales (Australia) to your attention. The 2018 Fostering Effective Early Learning (FEEL) study focuses on the importance of quality, and how to strengthen it in early childhood education and care (ECEC…

NEWS - Mending the prospects of Living with Autism

September 19, 2018

Parents for parents through successful interventions in Dushanbe: Tahmina came to IRODA when her second daughter was diagnosed with autism. From the early beginning, she was highly involved in intervention programs. She would attend trainings…

NEWS - ISOTIS makes the case for inter-agency work

September 13, 2018

A new publication from the ISOTIS project focuses on successful inter-agency work for lower socioeconomic status, immigrant and Romani Families in Belgium, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal and the UK. The study asks poignant…

NEWS - Dutch Policy on Pre-school Contributions Backfires

September 13, 2018

Dramatic drop in attendance rate of children from 0-4 alarms Amsterdam teachers, child minders and politicians. Since the beginning of this year, pre-school services in the Netherlands are no longer free of charge. In an attempt to subdue…

NEWS - INTESYS: How can we accomplish more together? - Part 7

September 12, 2018

We know that well-implemented integrated systems help professionals meet the needs of children and their families. Yet, it can still be challenging to motivate change and the progress toward effective systems can be slow. Enter the INTESYS project.…

NEWS - Early Moments Matter: UNICEF's Easy Online Parenting Guide

September 5, 2018

UNICEF has released an easy to access knowledge portal for anyone involved with children, childcare and parenting aid. The portal states: ‘We all want what's best for our children, but being a parent isn't always easy.’ No, it's not and we all…

NEWS – INTESYS: How can we accomplish more together? - Part 6

September 4, 2018

Integrated systems is a complex term; don’t let the name put you off. Integrating early childhood systems helps reduce disparities in learning outcomes for vulnerable children and help professionals meet the diverse needs of children and families.…

NEWS - New Composition for ISSA’s Board

September 3, 2018

ISSA is happy to announce that Vesna Bajsanski-Agic of the Mozaik Foundation (BiH) and Cornelia Cincilei of Step by Step (Moldova) have (re)joined the Board of Directors. More challengesVesna Bajsanski-Agic of the Mozaik Foundation (Bosnia-…

NEWS - University College Dublin joins ISSA’s ranks

August 30, 2018

School of Computer Science is involved in ADHD research program. ISSA is pleased to announce that a new member has joined the ranks: the University College of Dublin. The University College Dublin is an established institute in Ireland, a School of…

NEWS - ECWI Seeks Consultant for Needs Assessment Tool

August 30, 2018

The Early Childhood Workforce Initiative seeks a consultant for the development of a needs assessment tool. The tool aims to support policymakers responsible for the policy planning and personnel management of Early Childhood Development (ECD)…

NEWS - Comparative Study of 'Urban Spaces to Support Parents'

August 28, 2018

Around the world, an important movement in the development of Early Years services is the growing understanding of the holistic role a city plays in the life of children and their caregivers. The complex structure of the built environment and its…

NEWS - Reluctant parents? CEI knows: Come time, come play.

August 27, 2018

Latvian Center of Education Initiatives knows about Parent Involvement. As one of their teachers invited parents to help out their children during school hours by joining creative classes or other activities, one father loudly expressed himself,…

NEWS - UNICEF Calls for Consultancy (Croatia)

August 22, 2018

UNICEF invites those whom are interested to apply for a consultancy contributing to a better understanding of low kindergarten attendance in a high income country. Research has repeatedly demonstrated the benefits of early childhood education…