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was a very demanding challenge because the school, in a very short time, had to
radically change its organization without any previously planned solution.
Solution A technical team was set up among computer science teachers with the task of
choosing and implementing a platform for remote communication. Instead of
relying on one of the existing FAD solutions, it was preferred to choose a non-
specialist system such as GMeet to borrow as much as possible the teacher-
pupil interactions that take place in a real classroom without the rigidities of an
architecture dedicated to ELearning.
At the same time, a training activity aimed at teachers on the use of the chosen
platform was launched.
The Management intervened by arranging that all activities were carried out
Policy parameters remotely.
To facilitate the change, with the support of the Academic Board, it has
organized a new working and teaching schedule.
Development & The Management has adopted various solutions to better manage the
oversight functioning of the school with the new organization:
• All employees and students operated in smart working;
• School hours were shortened to 33 hours per week and the duration of each
teaching unit reduced from 55 to 45 minutes.
• An additional 15-minute break was introduced during the morning, in addition
to the one already foreseen.
• All meetings of the school bodies took place remotely.
Each teacher was left free to set up the teaching of his own subject and the
relative evaluations.
As is well known, in Italy, after the end of the pandemic, a situation of
normality has gradually returned. Lessons, the center of every educational
institution, are once again in presence. Nevertheless, some lessons have been
learned from the operation of the new remote organization which have
produced the following results:
• All teachers, even those furthest from technical skills, have developed
important skills in the use of PCs to support teaching.
• Meetings between parents and teachers take place only remotely; this
Outcomes improved time management and parental participation.
• Emergency (and therefore unscheduled) meetings of the various school
bodies take place remotely.
• As is known, the isolation due to the pandemic has produced various
problems for individuals' relational skills. The younger population suffers the
most. For this reason, the School has introduced the figure of the Institute
Psychologist to support the pupils.

CASE STUDY N°3