One of the objectives that guides educational management is to be able to guarantee coherence between the pedagogical projects of schools and institutes. Being able to do so is essential to minimize the risk of dropping out and promote fluid transition between primary and secondary school.
Eulàlia Esclapés, a psychopedagogue with more than 23 years of experience in educational centers and director of Education and Territory of the Consorci d'Educació of Barcelona, is very clear: “it is above all in the changes of stage when we can lose students who, if "We allow him to become disengaged from school dynamics, it will be very difficult to recover him."
The measure capable of most strongly promoting pedagogical continuity between schools and institutes is the simplification of affiliations, a line in which the Consorci has been working for years. Affiliation is the main regulatory criterion offered by the Admission Decree to reinforce pedagogical continuity between the primary and secondary stages, since it gives priority in assigning places to families from affiliated centers.
In this way, families who place their affiliated institutes among their priority options during the pre-registration period have a guaranteed place in them.
The next academic year 2024-25 finishes the process that has led to the simplification of affiliations. It has been four years since the educational communities were informed about the implementation of this strategy, a model towards which they began to progressively move. In September of this year there will no longer be any school with more than three affiliated institutes, 99% will have two or three. Although the administration's desire is to ensure that all schools have two, in order to ensure the allocation of secondary school places there still have to be schools with three linked institutes.
In any case, the current pre-registration situation represents one more step compared to the previous one, when there were still seven schools with four institutes or even two with five. Thus, this year this model is consolidated, which has been established in all compulsory education centers.
And the clarification of affiliations, like school institutes, is a scenario that gives security and confidence to families, since it prevents students from having to suffer the trance of having to enter unknown territory. If, before the crucial step to the first year of ESO, institutes and schools have had the opportunity to work on an alliance aimed at facilitating this transition, the probabilities of educational success are multiplied and the link between school and institute becomes a factor of success. protection for boys and girls entering adolescence.
