Tbilisi. On October 19, the Civic Development Institute held a meeting with teachers in the Teachers' Professional Development Center. The alternative to the existing policy of a safe school was the main topic of the meeting. Head of the Institute IaAntadze has opened the meeting and briefly overviewed the activities of the Civic Development Institute within the education component. SopioGorgodze and Simon Janashia have discussed the alternative document to the safe school policy. According to them, this policy document aims to offer the decision-maker persons ways for improving the safe school concept. The document is based on the study and examination of the situation and policy in the general education system of Georgia and the legal documents. In addition, presented at the meeting was the study "Safe School Policy in Georgia: Preconditions, Results and Attitudes", and the mechanisms of internal control in public schools and the governing style were discussed.

The meeting participants received from the organization a book "Guidebook of a Child-Oriented School", written about these issues. The meeting was held as part of the project "Advocacy of a Child-Oriented School", which is supported by the East-West Management Institute and the United States Agency for International Development.