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coACTION Project ModulePage 11/24Whole School Approach For parents: From parents' evening to co-design Participation means more than just passing on information. Parents not only contribute expertise and perspectives, but can also take on real responsibility - if the school opens up spaces for this. ➡ Concrete examples: ● Parents as learning guides: In a school in North Rhine-Westphalia, parents provide support in a weekly ‘workshop lesson’ on topics such as woodwork, first aid or sewing. They are invited, not obliged. ● Co-decision-making at school festivals: Instead of just handing out lists of helpers, parents are already involved in the planning phase: What do we want to organise together? How can children get involved? ● Feedback as dialogue: The school offers parent cafés with feedback opportunities on school development topics (e.g. room design, digitalisation). Selected concerns go directly to the school development team. Democracy thrives on participation, thinking and decision-making - in all roles. The Whole School Approach does not mean: everyone participates a little. It means that everyone shapes the school together because everyone learns from each other what democratic behaviour really means. Error culture: Learning also means being allowed to make mistakes - and growing from them Making mistakes is human - and yet many schools are characterised by a ‘zero-error culture’... Error culture in the Whole School Approach: What error- friendliness means for everyone involved For school management: Being a rolemodel alsomeans admitting mistakes As a school headmaster, you shape the culture of your school more than any vision. When you say in conferences: ‘I misjudged that’ or ‘I've learnt something new here’, you are showing strength - not weakness. You are signalling: Mistakes are normal, development is welcome.