Entrepreneurial Competences for School Leadership Teams Newcastle 6 th October 2014.
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Entrepreneurial Competences for School Leadership Teams
Newcastle 6th October 2014
Welcome and Introductions
Professor Sue Robson – Head of School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University
Mr Rene Koglbauer – Director of the North Leadership Centre, Newcastle University
Meeting Objectives• Get to know one another• The project in detail– structure– methodology– outputs– roles and responsibilities
• Management structures• Financial matters
Agenda Monday 6th OctoberTime Activity Led by…
09.30 – 09.45 Welcome and Introductions. Agenda for the two days.
Sue Robson/Rene Koglbauer
09.45 – 11.00 Partner introductionsPresentations by partners about their own organisations (10-15 minutes each) Each partner
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee 11.15 – 12.00 Project Overview
Objectives, Phases, Partner roles, Target Groups and Outcomes
Paul Harrison
12.00 – 13.00 Methodology The Professional Enquiry Approach Sue Robson
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Agenda Monday 6th OctoberTime Activity Led by…
14.00 – 15.30 Output 1 - Management Partnership Agreements, Management Handbook, Developing a detailed Action Plan, Website, Responsibilities of Output leaders, Reporting
Paul Harrison
15.30 – 15.45 Tea 15.45 – 16.30 Output 2 – The State of the Art
Brief presentation from P1, P3, P4 and P5 on current provision for school leaders/teachers/ business.Roles and responsibilities. Clarity on the four key areas: Strategic Thinking & Visioning, Team Building, Personnel Management & Development,Communication & Negotiation Skills Financial resources, Mobilisation & Optimisation. Sharing the information and producing the report.
P1, P3, P4 and P5
19.30 - Partner dinner
Time Activity Led by…09.30 – 10.30 Output 3 – School based enquiry
Brief report on the pilot schools partners will or are likely to be working with – overview of the structure of the enquiry, introducing the schools to the topics, initial planning
P1, P3, P4, P5
10.30 – 11.00 Output 4 - Developing the final modulesOverview of the Output and its links into the other work Paul Harrison
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee 11.15 – 12.00 Output 5 – Overarching Research
Structure and organisation of the research strand, roles of partners
Sue Robson/Rene Koglbauer
12.00 – 12.30 Output 6 – Quality Assurance
Developing the Quality Plan – evaluation strategies, role of the external evaluator
Paul Harrison
12.30 – 13.00 Output 7 – DisseminationDeveloping the Dissemination Plan, target groups, timescales, use of existing networks, dissemination products and activities, record keeping
Paul Harrison
Agenda Tuesday 6th October
Time Activity Led by…13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
13.00 – 13.30 Output 8 - ExploitationOverview of the Output and roles of partners Paul Harrison
13.30 – 15.00 BudgetsFinancial Reporting, Budget monitoring, Regulations, Record Keeping Paul Harrison
15.00 – 15.30 Conclusion of MeetingFurther questions and discussionsAction pointsSkype meeting and next partner meeting
Sue Robson/Rene
Koglbauer
15.30 - Visit to Newcastle
Agenda Tuesday 6th October
Partner IntroductionsOrganisation Personnel
P1 University of Newcastle UNEW Sue Robson Rene Koglbauer
P2 edEUcation ltd EDEUC Paul Harrison Janet Linsley
P3 University of Jyväskylä JYU
Mikael Risku
P4 University of Primorska UP Majda Cenčič Tina Štemberger
P5Bucharest University of
Economic Studies BUES Marian Nastase Monica Paduraru
P6European School Heads
Association ESHA Fred Verboon
Project Overview• 2 year Strategic Partnership
Aims:• To improve the quality and efficiency of school leadership
through improved creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.• To identify key successful entrepreneurial competences from
the business world, adapt them to a school leadership context and develop training modules to equip school leadership teams to accelerate the pace of school improvement and lead and manage with greater school autonomy.
Project OverviewObjectives:• Audit the systems and leadership development programmes in the partner countries• Audit successful entrepreneurial practice in the world of work and relate it to the
needs of school leadership teams• To establish an enquiry network to identify best practice and identify gaps in provision
in the delivery of four key areas of entrepreneurial competence:– Strategic Thinking & Visioning– Team Building, Personnel Management & Development– Communication & Negotiation Skills – Financial resources mobilization & Optimization
• Use professional enquiry to examine real life cases in schools and business• Develop a set of training modules for Primary and Secondary leadership teams • Pilot, test, evaluate and refine the training modules • Carry out longitudinal research into the processes used and their impact• Disseminate the project outcomes • Explore the integration of the final modules into a joint EU masters programme
Structure of the ProjectPhases:• Set up – systems and website• Audit – current practice and need • Development
– professional enquiry in schools– creation of draft training modules
• Testing and evaluation • Final modules• Exploitation and dissemination events
Across all phases:• Overarching research • Dissemination • Quality Assurance
Structure broken into 8 Intellectual Outputs subdivided into 22 activities
Partner Roles• Roles linked to expertise• Leadership of Intellectual outputs shared• Roles in delivery shared• Lead responsibilities for specific activities
– Overseeing quality– Deadlines– Supporting other partners
• Management responsibilities– Own staff– Deadlines and quality– Financial management
Target GroupsDirect Target groups:• Leadership teams of the four schools in each country
– Principal and his/her Deputies or aspiring to leadership– determined by the schools themselves around 6 staff from each school
• The teaching staff of the schools involved• 120 (30 in each of four countries) aspiring leaders from other schools not
involved in the developmental stage
Longer term target groups :• School leadership teams reached through dissemination • Organisations involved in the training of school leaders• Regional, national and international organisations with an interest in school
improvement• Policy makers at national and EU levels who will be reached through the
contribution of the project to the on-going work of EPNoSL
Outcomes
• Outcomes linked to the overall objectives• Identified in each Intellectual Output• Activities broken down into ‘Deliverables’ with timescales • Deliverables used for monitoring of progress and quality
assurance
Entrepreneurial Competences for School Leadership Teams
Newcastle 6th October 2014
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