Anna Laghigna has been a member of European Schoolnet Academy teacher trainers since 2016 and has moderated several EUN Moocs. She currently supports the MenSI project as in-house pedagogical consultant. She is an experienced teacher trainer in the areas of active learning methodologies. She previously served as language teacher in Italy for 20 years.
Arjana Blazic is a teacher trainer, education technology consultant and course designer. She is an external expert at European Schoolnet. Her interests focus on technology enhanced teaching and learning and the impact of digital technologies on teacher professional development. You can get in touch with her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/abfromz
Roger Blamire has been Senior Adviser, Policy and Practice, at European Schoolnet since 2000, after working in the UK on technology in schools and in secondary schools teaching foreign languages. Current work revolves around education policy analysis, validation, pedagogical innovation, peer learning, leadership and evaluation. A graduate of Manchester University, he holds a master’s degree in French and lives in Worcestershire, United Kingdom.
MOOC contributors
The following schools have contributed a video illustrating their mentoring experiences in the MenSI project:
The Mentoring for School Improvement (MenSI) project is a 28-month Coordination and Support Action (November 2020 – February 2023) funded by the European Commission H2020 programme. The project will carry out a pan-European investigation into how different approaches to mentoring can support the mainstreaming of innovative digital teaching practices in primary and secondary schools. It builds on the outcomes and lessons learnt from the earlier EU-FP7 Living Schools Lab project (2012-2014), which provided support to school clusters via ‘regional hubs', and will also leverage the network of learning labs that are part of the current European Schoolnet Future Classroom Lab initiative.
Mentoring for School Improvement (MenSI) has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101004633.