Scientific Methodology and Work Packages
Work Plan Period 3 Overview
| Specific objective | Work Package |
To upgrade and maintain the EPNoSL portal To synchronize the Period’s Work Plan Activities in a coherent and effective manner To ensure EPNoSL’s response to the Call Objectives through Milestone Achievement To assess the process of EPNoSL implementation impact level on policy and quality of development resources To expand the Network Membership | WP1: Management, Coordination and Quality Assurance |
| To transform the current EPNoSL documentation and understandings on School Leadership developments and requirements for further ac tion into policy friendly tools focussing on autonomy, accountability, distributed forms of leadership, policy responses and educating school leaders | WP2: Evidence-based informed policy directions on/for SL |
To support the development of national and regional networking on policy developments between and within stakeholder groups To support knowledge exchange between stakeholder groups (both from country specific and EC levels) | WP3: Knowledge Exchange and Stakeholders Networking |
To identify Good Practices on/for SL policy development from the count ries and subsequently to highlight these from a regional perspective To put in place a collaborative process for motivating and supporting Policy Authorities to structure and culture their specific policy agendas on SL To ensure that the voices of Ministries and other authorities and stakeholder bodies are integrated into the National / Regional Plans on/for SL development | WP4: Consensus Building on Strategy Developed Approaches to SL |
To promote the implementation of the priorities for development of School Leadership by stimulating high level cooperation between and within target groups through knowledge exchange processes To investigate into the sustainability of EPNoSL as a platform, its resources and processes put in place | WP5: School Leadership Policy Developments beyond EPNoSL
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Work Plan Year 2 Overview
| Specific objective | Work Package |
To restructure and coordinate the process of operation and work activity of the EPNoSL. To assess EPNoSL’s impact on the partnership and policy levels | WP1: Management, Coordination and Quality Assurance |
To review and define Critical Factors for the implementation of LLL Strategy and Policy under the scope of equity and learning and the perspective of SL. To reflect on the need for a renewed research agenda on SL To critically review the knowledge base for the construction of a common European Policy Indicators Framework on/for SLTo identify, analyse and map current trends on the preparation and selection of School Leadership in Europe in relation to the State of the Art and regulatory conditionsTo classify the current trends on the selection and preparation of School Leaders in Europe in terms of a learning culture perspective | WP2: The State of Affairs on School Leadership in Europe |
To promote discourse and networking between diverse stakeholders groups on current pitfalls for School Leadership and documenting lessons learnt. To design, develop and implement collaborative activity-based tools under the scope of enhancing self-reflections on SL roles, tasks, responsibilities and accountability, qualifications and quality assurance and accreditation parameters from an equity and learning perspective. To enhance the Networking capacity amongst target groups within national contexts on pertinent factors relating to the selection and preparation of SL. | WP3: Knowledge Management |
| To provide policy with an evidence base on culturing and structuring SL under the perspective of equity and learning. | WP4: Knowledge Construction |
To negotiate EPNoSL’s results and understandings on equity and learning at national and EU levels. To enhance visibility of notions embedded in the concept of SL across countries and stakeholders groups. To link existing initiatives on SL and evidence informed policy, practice in Education in Europe. | WP5: Sustainability and Scalability
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Work Plan Year 1 Overview
| Specific objective | Work Package |
| To structure and manage the process of operation and work activity of the European Policy Network on School Leadership | WP1: Management, Coordination and Quality Assurance |
To identify, analyse and map current trends on the preparation and selection of School Leadership in Europe in relation to the State of the Art and regulatory conditions To classify the current trends on the selection and preparation of School Leaders in Europe in terms of a learning culture perspective | WP2: The State of Affairs on School Leadership in Europe |
To design, develop and implement collaborative activity-based tools under the scope of enhancing self-reflections on the role, tasks, responsibilities and accountability, qualifications and quality assurance and accreditation on school leaders in Europe | WP3: Knowledge Management (Knowledge Sharing and Satellite Network development) |
| To define Policy and Research Recommendations based on principles of “Good Practices” (theoretical and practical perspectives) in School Leadershi | WP4: Knowledge Construction WP2: The State of Affairs on School Leadership in Europe WP3: Knowledge Management |
| To enhance visibility on the impact of school management to educational performance (individual, institutional and systemic) under the scope of supporting the improvement of quality and equity in education | WP5: Sustainability and Scalability |
