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Step by Step Centre for Quality in Education
Ljubljana
Slovenia
(+386) 1 429 20 20
korakzakorakom@pei.si
https://www.korakzakorakom.si/
Full Member
Ljubljana
Slovenia
(+386) 1 429 20 20
korakzakorakom@pei.si
https://www.korakzakorakom.si/
Full Member
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Type of organisation
Research institute
Thematic focus
Parenting support programs
Social inclusion for Romani and migrant children
Organisation groups
Eastern European members
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Full and Affiliate Members of ISSA
Targeted age groups
Direct targeted groups
Health professionals
Social workers
Paraprofessionals
Managers of services
Policy makers
Higher education staff
Practitioners with migrant background
Practitioners with Romani background
Students
Mission
We enable all children gain access to high-quality education and care and fully realise their unique potential.
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Empowering Early Childhood Educators: Erasmus+ project drives professional development for enhanced ECEC quality
Empowering Early Childhood Educators: Erasmus+ project drives professional development for enhanced ECEC quality Despite mounting evidence of the positive impact a high-quality early childhood wo...New Analysis Examines the Current Recruitment and Professional Development Practices for CPD Educators
New Analysis: A Comprehensive Examination of Continuous Professional Development Educators The recently released analysis, Existing Practices for the Recruitment and Professional Devel...Maintaining Interaction with Families During the Pandemic: the Key for Smooth Transitions
The world has been facing a completely new way of life in the past year. The COVID-19 pandemic influenced the personal and professional lives of everyone, including families and professionals from the...ISSA Joins a New Partnership Under the Green Learning Community Project
The recent experience with the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the "professional isolation" of early childhood education practitioners, as the possibilities for mutual connection and sharing of prac...High-quality professional development contributes to high-quality pedagogical practice
There is a broad consensus among researchers, organizations, and policy makers that the outcomes for children, and ultimately families are strongly related to the quality of Early Childhood Educatio..."Little Ideas" cards for parents in Slovenia
The Step by Step Centre for Quality Education together with Family Centre Mala Ulica ("Little Street"), both ISSA members in Slovenia, have developed and published a booklet for parents of c...Webinar: Enabling responsive early childhood strategies: the Primokiz Approach for Local Governments
Webinar: Enabling responsive early childhood strategies: the Primokiz Approach for Local Governments The Primokiz approach has proved to be a successful vehicle for building a sustainable in...Member in Focus with Step by Step center for Quality Education in Slovenia: "We link Research and Practice"
Jerneja Jager, is the head of the Step by Step Center for Quality in Education, ISSA’s founding member from Slovenia. At just 34 Jerneja is the youngest Head of Department of the Educational Rese...Piloting the Primokiz approach: Slovenia Grows with You
Following the successful implementation of the 'Primokiz approach' in Switzerland, Germany, and currently under implementation in Romania, the Jacobs Foundation and ISSA are teaming up again, this tim...Stronger Together: ISSA members coordinate action on European Quality Framework
18 November 2016 – ISSA’s Peer Learning Activities (PLAs) are an instrument of change and a vehicle for sharing best practices among the membership. This week in Amsterdam, organizations from five cou...NEWS – INTESYS: How can we accomplish more together? – Part 4
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 profession...NEWS - TOY for Inclusion Gets Extended
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 cou...Several ISSA members release a new manual for intergenerational learning
The Dutch NGO ICDI, together with three other ISSA members, VBJK (Belgium), Comenius Foundation (Poland) and the Step by Step Centre for Quality Education (Slovenia) has published a new toolkit to he...NGO’s from different European countries will come together in an international conference on intergenerational learning
ISSA’s member ICDI, hosts the final TOY International Conference on intergenerational learning that will take place on the 28th October in Leiden Other three ISSA members, VBJK (Belgium), Comenius Fo...Peer Learning Activity: Networks of preschools/primary schools and professionals
On 27 and 28 September, Step by Step Centre for Quality in Education, Slovenia organized a Peer Learning Activity (PLA) together with colleagues from Croatia. The two day meeting focused on...ISSA and Members: Promoting inclusion of Romani children – through TOY
Combatting segregation of young Romani children and enhancing social cohesion of local communities are the core principles of TOY for Inclusion project, implementation of which starts in the beginning...START meeting in Ghent, Belgium
ISSA member Step by Step Centre for Quality in Education from Slovenia is leading the consortium START. The project START aims to improve practices supporting children facing transitions from one educ...Resources
InTrans Infographics - status of early childhood care and education systems in seven EU countries
The ultimate goal of the InTrans project is to ensure that all children and families — especially the most vulnerable — benefit from warm and inclusive transitional practice in ECEC and scho...Quality Principles for Continuous Professional Development Educators
The PIQET Principles represent a groundbreaking initiative under the Erasmus+ project, designed to elevate the standard of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for educators across diverse educat...Existing Practices for the Recruitment and Professional Development of Continuous Professional Development Educators
Building a strong, reliable, and high-quality ECEC workforce yields positive results that significantly impact the well-being of young children and enable their rounded and healthy development. Theref...Group reflection as a motor for high-quality educational practice. An inspirational travel guide for practitioners and leaders in ECEC and primary schools
This Guide will help you get familiar with the collaborative reflective practices of educators working in Early Childhood Education Centres (ECEC) and primary schools. It is intended for both ECEC pro...START- Sustaining Warm and Inclusive Transitions across the Early Years. Final report with implications for policies and practices
Transitions across the home environment, early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings and compulsory school education (CSE) mark significant changes in the life of children and their families an...National Guidelines for the Inclusion of Roma Children and their Parents
The Slovenian National Guidelines for the inclusion of Roma children and their parents into preschool programs are aimed at kindergarten and municipalities as decision makers in the field of early chi...With Friends to the Seaside
With Friends to the Seaside is a picture book created by children under the mentorship of preschool teachers at a meeting attended by Roma children and their parents. It is written in Slovenian and Ro...Professional Development Tool - tool for gathering examples on ISSA quality principles
Professional Development Tool - a tool for gathering examples on ISSA quality principles is a tool used for identifying and documenting examples of good practice in teachers' practice (peer observatio...My Reflective Diary: ISSA Pedagogical Principles
My Reflective Diary: ISSA Pedagogical Principles is developed around the ISSA Principles of Quality Pedagogy. It can be used to document professionals on-going changing understandings of different pri...PIQET Training Programme for CPD Educators
The Training Programme for CPD Educators was developed under Erasmus + project Principles of Quality in Education of Teachers – PIQET. This project aimed to develop a set of resources for assuring the...