Being one of the activities carried out within the scope of ODAP with a view to preventing early school leaving (ESL), Parent Information Meetings have been implemented in the pilot provinces with the participation of the parents. The series of meetings started first in Şırnak in October. Then, these meetings were later conducted in Ağrı, Ankara, Hakkâri, Sakarya, Şanlıurfa and Çankırı with the participation of the parents of the students studying in the pilot schools. The Information Meetings in the remaining pilot provinces will have been completed by mid-December.

Targeting creating awareness of ODAP Integrated Model among the parents and informing them of the importance of regular school attendance, Parent Information Meetings are conducted as a half-day meeting each including three separate sessions.

In the meetings, where how parental support makes difference on students’ engagement in school and contributes to the academic and social skill improvement of the students is presented, the parents are informed of the available education opportunities.

In the first session of the meeting, the information related to the situation regarding ESL in Türkiye and the importance of putting in place an integrated approach that shall tackle ESL in secondary high school is disseminated and the parents learn about the scope and purposes of prevention’, intervention and compensation model.

In the second session, working groups are created and groups work on proposed solutions with a view to tackling early school leaving. In the last session, the outcomes from each working group are presented to all the participants.

Held at the weekend in order to facilitate the participation of the working parents, the meetings do not only provide up-to-date information to the parents about the activities under ODAP but also allow for disseminating the message on the importance of education. Furthermore, these meetings serve as an important platform to measure the perceptions of the parents on education in general, learn their views on ODAP Integrated Model and Early Warning System, and develop cooperation opportunities.

The third one of the Student and Parent Information Seminar, whose first and second rounds took place in Şırnak and Ankara respectively, was carried out in Şanlıurfa on 10^th November within the scope of ODAP with the participation of the students who have left formal education, and their parents.

The seminar, which was organised to inform students and their parents of the reintegration of the school-leaving students back in the education system and to ensure that these students come back to school, started with the introduction of ODAP Integrated Model. During the seminar, the participants were informed of the measures implemented within the scope of ODAP for the prevention of the student absenteeism and early school leaving and learned about the options for youth within the scope of the education system in Türkiye.

In the seminar, where group work activities took place to increase the motivation of the students for school attendance, the parents were informed of the risks that the early school leaving would cause and the importance of the cooperation between school and families were emphasised.

Information Seminars for Children Leaving Formal Education and Their Parents have been planned to be carried out in a total of 5 provinces. After being organised also in Trabzon and İstanbul, all the seminars will have been completed in December.

Student and Parent Information Seminars, organised within the scope of ODAP, have started.  The first one of the seminars was organised in Şırnak on 18^th October 2023.

The seminar which received participants from Yusuf Cezeri Religious Anatolian High School, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Anatolian High School and Yunus Emre Anatolian High School started with the introduction of ODAP Integrated Model.

The seminar, where the importance of school attendance and education is emphasised for the students who left the education and had difficulty in attending school and their parents, continued with group work activities.

Being carried out in order to inform the students who left their education as well as their parents, these seminars aim to develop cooperation between school and families as well as increasing motivation of the students to attend school.

The second of these seminars will be carried out on 28^th October with the participation of the pilot schools in Ankara.

Information seminars for re-integration of the students who dropped out of the school into education have been ongoing.

The second one of the Student and Parent Information Seminar, the first one of which took place in Şırnak, was carried out in Ankara on 30^th October within the scope of ODAP.

The seminar welcomed both the students having left their schools and their parents, who had previously attended Bağlum Şehit Yakup Çapat Religious Anatolian High School, Battalgazi Vocational and Technical High School, Piri Reis Anatolian High School, 50. Yıl Şehit Uhud Kadir Işık Anatolian High School, Altıağaç Anatolian High School and Akdere Anatolain High School.

In the seminar, which was organised with a view to increasing students’ motivation and developing cooperation with the parents, group work activities took place, as well. While the parents were working on “how to face problems and risks of school refusal and proposed solutions”, the students took part in a “cooperative learning activity with creative educational content”.

With the “Student and Family Information Seminars”, it is aimed to raise awareness among participants about the individual and social goals of education, importance of school attendance, and the need for cooperation between school and families.

The third of the seminars, which will be held in a total of 5 provinces, is planned to be held in Şanlıurfa.

Pilot school visits have started in order to monitor the implementation process of ODAP Integrated Model.

For each pilot province, Provincial School Visit Teams have been established before the visits. Provincial School Visit Teams, which are composed of 2 experts from the TAT, 2 staff members from the Ministry of National Education, and 2 staff members from the Provincial Directorates of National Education, will be in field in order to monitor the implementation processes of the Model in the pilot schools in the provinces as well as providing guidance to the schools.

The first visit was paid to the pilot schools in Şırnak on 19^th-20^th October. Thereafter, one visit was carried out in Çankırı, one in Afyonkarahisar and one in Ağrı, respectively on 24^th-25^th October, 26^th-27^th October, and 30^th-31^st October. It is planned to complete the school visits in the first half of December by carrying out one school visit in Hakkari and Sakarya on 2^nd-3^rd November, one in Şanlıurfa on 7^th,8^th,9^th October 2023, one in Nevşehir, Bingöl, and Trabzon on 23^rd-24^th November, one in Hatay on 30^th November-1^st December, one in İstanbul on 4^th,5^th, 6^th December, one in Ankara on 6^th,7^th, 8^th and one in Tekirdağ on 7^th-8^th December 2023.

At the end of the visits, provincial reports will be prepared, which will include School Monitoring Results for each school. These reports will be used during the preparation of the Final Monitoring Report at the end of piloting stage.

The catch-up classes for the students who have been identified to be at risk as a result of obtaining low points from the readiness level measurement tools and SASAT started.

The catch-up classes, which 30 students attend from each school, will be implemented with a view to supporting the levels of skills of the students in the areas of mathematics, science and reading comprehension.

A total of 32-hour of classes will be provided in science, which consists of 12 hours of physics, 10 hours of chemistry and 10 hours of biology. As for reading comprehension and mathematics, they will also last 32 hours each.

With the catch-up classes, being part of ODAP Integrated Model, it is aimed to prevent early school leaving and increase enrolment rates.

Targeting the students at risk of early school leaving because of low academic achievement, the catch-up classes are provided in line with the ‘Teacher Guides’, which were prepared by the teachers at schools for themselves.

Organised before the piloting stage of the ODAP Integrated Model, to be launched on 2023-2024 School Year, introductory meetings for the principals in 50 pilot schools in 14 Project provinces were completed.

The first one of the meetings, which were conducted online, was held with the principals in the pilot schools in Ankara, Çankırı, Nevşehir, and Afyonkarahisar on 12^th September 2023, separately for each province. In these meetings, where the discussions were held as to how the piloting would be conducted, what was expected from the schools, how the implementation calendar was planned, the Project Manager Didem Elif Bilgili introduced the project management team and the expert team.
Information on the current situation of the project activities was provided for the meeting participants. The Workplan for October – December 2023 was conveyed to the participants. During the brief presentation done by the senior experts of the Project, the participants were informed about the Early Warning System, which is one of the most important components of the Project.

The second of the introductory meetings, which continued uninterrupted for four days, was held on 13^th September 2023 on Wednesday, with the pilot school principals in Bingöl, Ağrı, İstanbul, and Sakarya; the third one was held on 14^th September 2023 on Thursday with the pilot school principals in Tekirdağ, Trabzon, and Şanlıurfa provinces. The last meetings, which were held with the pilot school principals in Hakkâri, Şırnak, and Hatay, were conducted on 15^th September 2023 on Friday.

Before the piloting stage of the ODAP Integrated Model, to be launched on 2023-2024 School Year, introductory meetings for the principals of 50 pilot schools in 14 Project provinces have been started to be held.

The first one of the meetings, which are to be carried out online, will be held with the principals of the pilot schools in Ankara, Çankırı, Nevşehir and Afyonkarahisar on 12^th September 2023, separately for each province.

With these meetings, where ‘how the piloting will be conducted’, ‘what is expected from the schools’, ‘how the implementation calendar is planned’ will be discussed, it is aimed to exchange views with the feedback received from the school principals, and to define the duties and responsibilities of the relevant actors in service provision.

The second of the introductory meetings to continue uninterrupted for four days will be held on 13^th September 2023, Wednesday, with the pilot school principals in Bingöl, Ağrı, İstanbul and Sakarya while the third one will be held on 14^th September 2023, Thursday with the pilot school principals in Tekirdağ, Trabzon and Şanlıurfa provinces. The last meetings, which will be conducted on 15^th September 2023, Friday, will be held with the pilot school principals in Hakkâri, Şırnak and Hatay.

Starting in İstanbul on 20^th – 21^st July 2023 with a 2-day Executive Training on the implementation of the ODAP Integrated Model, the programme continued for 3 weeks with School Staff Training. During the 5-day training sessions, respectively held in Istanbul on 24^th –  28^th July,  31^st July – 4^th August and 7^th – 11^th August, representatives from 14 pilot provinces of the Project (Afyonkarahisar, Ağrı, Ankara, Bingöl, Çankırı, Hakkari, Hatay, İstanbul, Nevşehir, Sakarya, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak, Tekirdağ, and Trabzon) reviewed the implementation stages of the ODAP Integrated Model and opinions of the teachers to act as the implementers of the model, were received.

The School Staff Training aimed to ensure cohesion, clarity, and process consistency in the implementation of the Integrated Model within the scope of ODAP’s objectives. The participants were informed about their roles and responsibilities during the implementation of the ODAP Integrated Model in their schools, as well as the strategic points of the pilot implementation phase.

In the meetings, where the opening speech was delivered by Ms. Emine AKINCI, Head of Research, Development and Projects Department in the General Directorate of Secondary Education in the Ministry of National Education, Project Technical Assistance Team delivered presentations on the introduction of the Project and provided information on the activities to be carried out. The training sessions continued in the form of group work on the following days.

Managers in the Provincial/District Directorates of National Education in our pilot provinces, managers and subject teachers at our pilot schools, staff of the General Directorate of Secondary Education and experts from the Project Technical Assistance Team participated in the training. At the end of the training sessions, all the participants received certificates of participation.

The model, which has been developed in order to support the implementation of the prevention, intervention, and compensation measures in the fight against the Early School Leaving (ESL), will lay the foundations of the pilot actions to be taken in the 50 pilot schools in 14 provinces. The pilot implementation period of ODAP Integrated Model will start in 14 pilot provinces of the Project in the 2023 – 2024 school year.

The Executive Training, which is the first training programme under ODAP within the scope of the Implementation of ODAP Integrated Model, took place in İstanbul between the dates 20th and 21st July 2023.

The Executive Training targeted cohesion, clarity, and process consistency in the implementation of the Integrated Model within the scope of ODAP’s objectives. The participants learned the roles and responsibilities that they would assume during the implementation of ODAP Integrated Model at school as well as the strategic points of the implementation stage.

The opening speech of the training was delivered by Ms. Emine AKINCI, who is the Head of Research, Development and Projects Department in the General Directorate of Secondary Education in the Ministry of National Education. Thereafter, the session continued with the presentations by the TAT on the introduction of the Project.

The managers in the Provincial / District Directorates of National Education in our pilot provinces, staff of the General Directorate of Secondary Education, representatives of stakeholder general directorates, and the Project Technical Assistance Team participated in the training.

The model, which has been developed in order to support the implementation of the prevention, intervention, and compensation measures in the fight against the Early School Leaving (ESL), will lay the foundations of the pilot actions to be taken in the 50 pilot schools in 14 provinces. The pilot implementation period of ODAP Integrated Model will start in 14 pilot provinces of the Project in the 2023 – 2024 school year.