La Mia Scuola è Differente, an After-School Program with an Intercultural Focus: The Challenges and Opportunities of Program Development

This chapter focuses on the launch of La Mia Scuola è Differente (in English: My school is different, LMSD), a new after-school project in Padova, a small Italian city located in the northeast of the country. Specifically, it describes the challenges and opportunities encountered during our entry into the school-community partnership established in 2019. Writing this chapter gave us (the co-authors Lisa and Luca) the pos sibility to pause for a moment to reflect on what has been accomplished so far and what directions the project should take