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PARTICIPANTS' INVOLVEMENT If your partnership mainly deals with pedagogical or management issues, please explain how all relevant staff will be actively involved in planning, implementation and evaluation of project activities.

In all schools there was a debate on the future topic. One problem turned out to be a common issue, our students’ reading performance is unsatisfactory. To be sure that the conclusion is true, we compared the results achieved by our students on the international level in assessments such as the PISA and PIRLS tests. When the consensus concerning the topic had been achieved, coordinators organized another discussion in their schools on the plan of implementation and evaluation of the programme BETTER LANGUAGE. Particularly languages teachers worked hard to determine if the programme will be coherent with National Curricula and the time needed to observe students’ progress and receive positive results which can be assessed. The teachers also decided on the time for publishing the final results of collaboration. The role of coordinators was to determine the precise time of programme duration considering different dates of the beginning and end of school year in each country. It must be emphasised that all teachers are invited to take part in the project. For instance, Mathematics teachers joined our project because they consider reading competency indispensable for solving mathematical problems. This was true also for History, Geography and Science teachers. Not only teachers but also head teachers in all schools are deeply involved in the project because it focuses on raising teaching effectiveness and on making school a more friendly and supportive place for students. PE, ICT, ART teachers, class teachers and librarians or school pedagogues will focus their attention on various children’s abilities and skills. The Comenius team in each school proposed various contests and events. The school stage will be followed by the international one. Parents and children’s surveys should give an answer as to whether the school is considered to be an inspiring, encouraging, motivating place. The programme BETTER LANGUAGE has a precisely determined plan of implementation. Teachers are required to analyse the programme results. Solutions and strategies will be implemented in each school separately. However, English teachers will work out a joint method of assessment. Children in their schools, depending on their proficiency, will practice reading the same set of CLIL texts and be subjects for the final assessment. ICT tools, our wiki and website, will be an extra area to present and control the implementation and evaluation of the whole project.