Quality is the strategy that ensures:

1. ECNAIS THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS CONSEIL EUROPEEN D’ASSOCIATIONS NATIONALES D’ECOLES INDEPENDANTES Rome, ITALY . 13 November 2009 Values and Quality of Independent Schools Bulgarian Association of Private Schools LOGO National Association | Country | Contacts - ARIAL 24 (red) • Quality is the strategy that ensures: • Bringing to full bloom the potential of students, teachers and community • Active attitude to innovation • Proximity to all stakeholders • Strong insight for underlying values and social dynamics • The relation between VALUES and QUALITY in a school is the same as the relation between • the ROOTS and CROWN of a tree. • Even if not always obvious there is a strong bond between the condition of the two and if the “roots” suffer, sooner or later it will show in the “branches” and “leaves” • Example of good practice • Most member schools of BAPS have introduced e-registers to make communication with families easier, faster and more reliable. Advantages: • All details about marks, presence/absence reach parents immediately • Direct two-way contact between parents and teachers • Option for notes on homework and self-preparation • Lower tension in communication • The product allows students to take part in communication as well • Time and stress saving effect and hence, • More options for discussing and building on primary information and thus, • Greater resource and higher motivation for quality feedback oriented to positivism and growth • The BULGARIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS primary goal is to support its member-schools in developing quality and highlighting this quality in public. • Research and information exchange • Representation in policy-making forums • Organization of school fairs and exhibition • Special Interest Groups • Assistance in risk and crisis management • Active communication with government and local authorities • Cooperation with parent association and stimulating of parent initiatives • International cooperation and exchange of good practices • It is hardly an easy task and we often “row” in troubled waters, but as always • “this world demands the qualities of youth: not as a time of life but as a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity"/Robert Kennedy/ | www.ecnais.org | Secretariat Ecnais | lhulst@vbs.nl | ECNAIS is na international association for collaboration between national associations of independent schools in European countries. It was founded in 1988 and is registered as a company limited by guarantee not having a share capital under the English Companies Act. ECNAIS