Programme

Thursday, 27th November, 2014
10h00-10h30: Opening Ceremony	Room: Conference room   David Justino and José Tenedório (ESCXEL Project – CESNOVA, FCSH/UNL)
Coffee-break
10h45-12h30: Plenary Conference	Chair: Ilídio Vicente Room: Conference room David Justino (Portugal) – Opening Speech - Networks, Communities and Partnerships in Education: actors, goals and results Jorge Ávila de Lima (Portugal) – Action and Structure in School Networks
12h30-14h00 Lunch time
14h00-15h30: Session 1 - Work Groups	Chair: Eva Gonçalves Room: Conference Room WG 1 – School/ Family Partnerships Ana Diogo (Portugal) – School-family relationship, partnerships and school segregation: some reflections Deidrea Stevens (USA) – Training the frontline: support preparation for comprehensive education initiatives Maria Adelina Villas-Boas (Portugal) - The european research network about parents in education (ERNAPE): aims and contributions
	Chair: Rossana Estanqueiro Room: First floor room WG 3 – School / Local Community Partnerships and Strategic Planning Alda Matos and Fernando Serra (Portugal) – Responsabilidade Social na e da Escola e relação com a comunidade. Resultados de um estudo de caso de um projeto de voluntariado numa escola do ensino básico em Portugal Teresa Pimentel (Portugal) - Strategic planning anchored on demographic prospective of school demand: what challenges for the different actors?
15h30-17h00: Session 2 - Work Groups	Chair: Jorge Ávila de Lima Room: Conference room WG 2 – School Networks Luísa Moreira (Portugal) - Os Nós da Rede de Escolas do Projeto Fénix (presented by Luísa Ucha) Susana Batista, Eva Gonçalves and Rui Santos (Portugal) – ESCXEL Project – School Network for Excellence David Justino and Rute Perdigão (Portugal) – School clusters and changing school cultures: a research agenda
Cocktail
Friday, 28th November, 2014
9h00-10h30: School Network Meeting	(Closed meeting) Room: First floor room National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) – Joyce Epstein ESCXEL – David Justino, Rui Santos and José Tenedório
Coffee-break
10h45-12h30: Plenary Conference	Chair: Miguel Miguéns Room: Conference room Philippe Masson (France) – Perspective on Partnerships in Education: From past to Future Joyce Epstein (USA) – Creating a National Network on School, Family and Community Partnerships: Multi-level Goals, Challenges, and Successes
12h30-14h00 Lunch time
14h00-15h30: Session 4 - Work Groups	Chair: Ana Matias Diogo Room: Ground floor room WG 1 – School/ Family Partnerships Jiacheng Li, Tao Yao and Yucheng Guo (China) - Can Parents be the key persons of teacher's professional development? A case study of one migrant school at Shanghai Pedro Silva (Portugal) – Networks, communities and partnerships: reflections on the use of these concepts in the context of home-school relations
	Chair: José Tenedório Room: Conference room WG 3 – School / Local Community Partnerships and Strategic Planning Bettina Arnoldt and Christine Steiner (Germany)– How German All-Day Schools Extend their Regular Curriculum through Partnerships João Sebastião (Portugal) - Redes locais e intervenção socioeducativa: das políticas às estratégias dos atores Clara Cruz (Portugal) – The local educational orders: public action, territories, actors
15h30-17h00: Session 5 - Work Groups	Chair: Rui Santos Room: Conference room WG 2 – School Networks Adelino Calado (Portugal) – Em conjunto respondemos melhor Paulo Portugal and Ilídio Vicente (Portugal) - Networking practices José Verdasca (Portugal) – TurmaMais: an organizational technology to promote academic success Pedro Marques (England) – Partnerships of Portuguese MFL in England: the initiatives of the Instituto Camões against the background of the statutory entitlement to MFL at Key Stage
	Chair: Pedro Silva Room:  Ground floor WG 3 – School / Local Community Partnerships and Strategic Planning José Tenedório and Rossana Estanqueiro (Portugal) – Strategic Planning in Education Michael Evans and Kira Baker-Doyle (USA) - The Ebb and Flow of Community Based Networks for Educational Change Ana Sofia Godinho (Portugal) – Education and community revitalisation: the case of Óbidos
Coffee-break
17h15-18h30: Closing Ceremony	Room: Conference room Rui Santos and José Tenedório (ESCXEL Project – CESNOVA, FCSH/UNL) Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues (CIES, ISCTE-IUL – Portugal)

Saturday, 29th November, 2014
Morning: excursion in Lisbon (minimum of 20 people, at the participants expenses)