Entrepreneurial School
Leadership (ESL)
Lifelong Learning Programme
Status:
• Not approved yet.
• Start October 2012 (kick off)
• Duration: 26 months until December 2014
Educational context
• Schools are becoming more autonomous.
OECD described leading autonomous schools as
the equivalent of ‘running a small business’,
 operate in a more business-like fashion
 Develop business orientated skills.
Partners
4 professional training partners, 2 business schools + ESHA
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The North Leadership Centre (England) is based Newcastle University in England.
Expertise: leadership training
NOVANCIA Business School Paris, (France) provides training for business leaders.
Audencia Nantes Business School (France) provides education for managers
DNI-VSKO (Belgium) is the umbrella organisation for Catholic Education in Flanders
(Belgium). DNI provides development for 35000 teachers at all the levels of VSKO.
Aisis (Czech Republic) provides support to improve and innovate educational, managerial
processes and learning environment in CZ primary and secondary schools.
Teach For Bulgaria (Bulgaria) strives to address the problem of unequal access to quality
education in secondary schools in Bulgaria. They focus on teachers.
ESHA
Business skills
• Accounting and reporting
• Strategy: what is your school and what kind of
students do you want / need?
• Thinking: out side – in oriented
• Differentiation: why is your school better then
the school next door?
How does a business school
differentiate themselves?
• Audencia Nantes Business School (France)
provides education and personal development
guidance to students who will assert
themselves as responsible, highly-skilled
managers and entrepreneurs having a global
awareness and a broad culture and who are
attentive to giving meaning to their decisions
and actions
Engagement
• School leaders in the UK, Belgium, Czech
Republic and Bulgaria. Primary and Secondary
sectors.
• Other Teacher Training organisations in and
beyond the partner countries, other specialist
Business schools and Universities, Head
teacher organisations who are members of
ESHA and local and regional authorities with
responsibility for training.
Summary
• This project is very interesting:
– Can you compete with the school next door?
– How do you compete: on things that you believe
that matters? Or do you act on the values of your
customers (parents)
• UK, Belgium, Czech Republic and Bulgaria.
• This is very interesting, even without the
project
Work packages 1 +2
WP1: project management
• Project management, responsibilities and systems.
Role ESHA: project management meetings: 10 days
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WP2: State of art.
Review the latest research findings on entrepreneurial and managerial
skills of leaders
Identify, measure and validate the key entrepreneurial and managerial
skills common to business and school leaders
Research current structures for leadership training and autonomy in
schools across the EU
identify how to adapt models of training to fit into the current structures
Role ESHA: data collection: 8 days
Work Package 3
Skills gaps and training needs
• Finalise the paper on entrepreneurial skills in school
leadership
• Identify initial skills gaps in entrepreneurial leadership
• Identify 4 key areas for developing training modules
• Agree structures of training modules in both Primary and
Secondary
Role ESHA: organise a 1-day work shop 2 days
Work Package 4 + 5
Initial module development (4)
• use action research to develop one Primary and one Secondary
module in each country
• review outcomes and assess against on-going skills analysis
• collate modules into a single training package
Final Training Package Development (5)
• test the modules in both secondary and primary in the four countries
• evaluate the content and methodology
• finalise and customise the training packages
No ESHA involvement
Work Package 6
Overarching Research
• collect quantitative and qualitative data throughout the
project from the target groups
• assess the content against the needs of the target groups and
advise on revisions
• assess the methodology against the needs of the target
groups and advise on revision
• produce research findings on both the content and
methodology, accompanied by case studies
• translate the research findings into policy recommendations
ESHA role: data collection through ESHA channels : 18 days
Work Package 7
Quality Assurance
• design and develop methods and tools for project monitoring,
quality and evaluation
• monitor the project progress
• evaluate intermediate and final project results
ESHA role: 3 online meetings; 3 days
Work Package 8
Initial and Interim Dissemination
• Raise awareness of the project and its aims, to engage interest
and to provide regular updates of the progress of the project.
• Build dissemination plan, using the ESHA on-line community,
ESHA magazine and articles for national organisations to use.
(EN, FR, Nl, Cz, Bg)
• Interim reports in March 2013, June 2013, and March 2014
ESHA role : lead, 44 days
Work Package 9
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Final Dissemination
To share publicly the outcomes of the project and its aims and
to introduce the exploitation phase
Conference attracts over 60 participants from across the EU
Orders placed for future training
Organizing an event: preferably Brussels in 2014
ESHA role: lead, 40 days
organise the final event, commercial engagement and the
resources to be distributed. A keynote speaker will be invited
to open the conference.
contact with commercial sponsors and organisation of ‘market
place’ at conference venue
Work package 10 +11
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National Exploitation (WP10)
To ensure that the resources developed and the research outcomes are fully exploited
by the partners at a national level in a sustainable way.
Role ESHA: help build the exploitation plan, 2 days
WP11:International Exploitation (WP11)
To ensure that the resources developed and the research outcomes are exploited in
countries not involved in the consortium
Training and seminars/conferences at an international level.
P1, P4, P5 and P6 will work together to provide an international in-service training offer
for school leaders and aspiring school leaders in all EU countries
Role ESHA : 3 days
Promotion of outcomes of the project with case studies to national associations and
authorities to market the on-line training modules. The aim will be to recruit up to 100
leaders using on-line training in 2014-15 increasing to 300 after three years.
Memorandum of understanding,
data collection plan.