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