Universidad de Sevilla
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
International Successful School Leadership Conference
May 31 - June 3, 2015
Dear ISSPP Colleague,
We are pleased to invite you, as a researcher / school leader affiliated with the International
Successful School Principals Project (ISSPP), to attend and participate in this international
conference. The conference will focus on national and international research on case studies of
successful schools and successful leadership developed by scholars in the ISSPP project.
The conference is being organized by a consortium of Spanish research teams participants in
the ISSPP network and hosted by the Faculty of Education, Universidad de Sevilla. As you can
see in the attached Conference program, in addition to the regular conference activities, there
will be opportunities to visit Seville area schools on Tuesday, June 2nd.
A small registration fee of euro 100 will be charged to help defray conference costs (breaks and
lunch catering, transportation to and from the schools, welcome dinner, etc). Conference
participants will also be responsible for all travel, evening meals, and accommodation. Housing
can be reserved at the conference rate in two different hotels (see below). Both of them are at
walking distance (2-8 minutes) from the Conference venue. Please contact Nina Hidalgo
(nina.hidalgo@uam.es) for further details about the conference program and arrangements.
This conference follows the highly successful international meetings of the ISSPP held in
Nottingham, Boston and Umeå. It will provide a unique opportunity to share and debate the
international research findings of this project about successful school principalship with
colleagues from around the world.
We look forward to seeing you in Seville.
The 2015 ISSPP Seville Conference Planning Committee
Julián López-Yáñez, Universidad de Sevilla
Marita Sánchez-Moreno, Universidad de Sevilla
Javier Murillo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Reyes Hernández, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Nina Hidalgo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Antonio Bolívar, Universidad de Granada
Cristina Moral, Universidad de Granada
José Manuel Coronel, Universidad de Huelva
Inmaculada González, Universidad de Huelva
María Teresa González, Universidad de Murcia
ISSPP 2015 Conference Planning. University of Seville, Spain
Sunday, May 31
Monday, June 1
Tuesday, June 2
Wednesday, June 3
Hotel Check-in
8:00 Registration Opens
9:00 – 14:00 School tours
9:00 – 9:45 ISSPP overview
20.30 – Welcome Dinner
9:00 – 9:45 Opening –
Conference welcome &
overview of ISSPP progress
and achievements
15:00 – 15:45 School
Debriefing
9:45 – 11:15 Concurrent
panels (2 to 4)
16:00 – 17:00 Keynote
speech # 2
11:15 – 11:45 Break
9:45 – 11:15 Concurrent
panels (2 to 4)
11:15 –11:45 Break
11:45 – 12:45 Keynote
speech # 1
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 15:15 Focus Group
Panels: Practitioners Talk
about Leadership
Development
15:15 –15:30 Break
15:30 – 17:00 Case studies
20:30 – 22:30 Dinner on your
own
20:30 – 22:30 Conference
Dinner
11:45 – 13:15 Next steps
forward and General
Conference closing
13:15 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 19:00 ISSPP Research
Team Meeting
Venue information
Faculty of Education / https://fcce.us.es/
Universidad de Sevilla / http://www.us.es/
Address: Calle Pirotecnia s/n - 41013 Sevilla, Spain
The Faculty of Education in Ramón y Cajal Campus and surroundings with recommended restaurants
More…
The hotels and the Faculty of Education in the city centre area
Accommodation:
Hotel NH Collection Sevilla, Spain
Address: Avda. Diego Martínez Barrio, 8 - 41013 Seville
http://www.nh-hoteles.es/hotel/nh-collection-sevilla
Double room - single use: 64.26€ - taxes and breakfast included
Double room - double use: 73.26€ - taxes and breakfast included
Booking by email: nhcollectionsevilla@nh-hotels.com
Booking by phone: +34 954 54 85 00, option 2 “speaking with the hotel”
(Please indicate the booking reference “BF9498441”)
Hotel Meliá Sevilla, Spain
Address: C/ Doctor Pedro Castro, 1 - 41004 Seville
https://www.melia.com/es/hoteles/espana/sevilla/melia-sevilla/index.html
Double room - single use: 97.9€ - taxes and breakfast included
Double room - double use: 108.9€ - taxes and breakfast included
Booking by email: grupos.sevilla@melia.com (please fill in and send the attached
reservation request)
Phone: +34 954 537084 Fax: +34 954 537956
In order to guarantee both availability and conference rates, bookings should be made earlier
than May 5th 2015
Conference dinners:
 The Welcome dinner (May 31th) is included in the registration fee.
 The Conference dinner (June 2nd) is offered for all the participants with a cost of euro 35
(meal and drinks included) and has to be pre-paid together with the registration fee by those
who want to attend.
 The rest of the dinners are on participants own.
Registration procedure:
* First step: Transferring euro 100 (euro 135 if you are going to attend the Conference dinner)
to the account below:
ACCOUNT HOLDER: Nina Hidalgo
ACCOUNT INFORMATION - IBAN: ES49-0049-6192-1122-1611-1421
CONCEPT: ISSPP Sevilla
BANK BIC/SWIFT: BSCHESMM
BANK: Banco de Santander
ADRESS: Avda. de la Enramadilla, 1 - 41001 Sevilla
* Second step: Please, fill-in and send the registration form (last page) to Nina Hidalgo
(nina.hidalgo@uam.es) with a copy of the bank transfer receipt:
Please do not forget booking accommodation on your own as soon as possible.
Call for contributions:
ISSPP 2015 Conference participants are called to contribute to any of the conference activities
including:
Concurrent panels: Advances in the current research strand of ISSPP are welcomed. Country
teams participating in research case studies under ISSPP guidelines are called to send
contributions about their advances and conclusions
Focus group panels: The purpose of this activity is to set up a discussion between practitioners
and academics about relevant issues of the leadership practice in schools, including:
School improvement and professional development: school capacity of change, school
results, innovative experiences, school as a professional community, collaboration cultures,
etc.
Diversity and multiculturalism in schools: experiences from schools with a high multicultural
attendance and/or placed in disadvantaged contexts, etc.
School - school community relationships: family involvement and participation, learning
communities, etc.
Both, practitioners and academics are welcomed to joint one of the three focus groups panels.
The conference planning committee will select five participants and one chair in each panel.
The panel chair will propose a tentative agenda for discussion previously to the session.
Case studies: Meaningful case reports of relevant practices of leadership and school
improvement are welcomed. Practitioners are expected to be the contributors in this activity.
They will have the opportunity to discuss their experiences with other colleagues and
researchers as well. Two cases will be addressed in each session. At least three parallel sessions
are foreseen (six case studies in total). Each case study will count on 20 minutes for
presentation and 20 minutes for discussion.
IMPORTANT: Concurrent panels and Case studies contributors are claimed to submit an
abstract of no more of 1200 words before April 15th 2015
Universidad de Sevilla
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
International Successful School Leadership Conference
May 31 - June 3, 2015
Registration form:
First name:
Family name:
Institution:
City / Country:
Position:
Do you expect to submit/present any contribution? (Deadline: April 15th 2015) Please erase the
wrong answer:
- Concurrent panels
YES/NO
- Focus group panels
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- Case studies
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Panel:
Will you attend the Conference dinners?
- Welcome dinner (May 31th)
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- Conference dinner (June 2nd, Please, add 35  to the registration fee.
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- Do you have any food allergy?
Please specify if YES:
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