Column Ton Duif
Let’s meet and share the best of European school leadership practice, together
There are now more and more global readers who are interested in networking to exchange best practice in school leadership. ESHA offers you a worldwide platform to exchange articles, research, opinions and knowledge, initially drawn from Europe and in the future from beyond the European Community. We are only able to do this because ESHA now has a full partnership agreement with funding support from the European Commission, to help us to deliver this high standard of publication and service to members.
In autumn 2012, the interactive website of ESHA and the ESHA Magazine will be translated into English, French, German, Italian and French. You can be part of this. If you surf to the ESHA website www.esha.org and click on one of the items under WORK IN PROGRESS. You can read all the information about the topics and you can even join our community if you would like to share your ideas ww.eshacommunity.wikispaces.com.
The year 2012-2013 will be an exciting one for ESHA, with new activities, opportunities and products. At the ESHA biennial Conference in Edinburgh, from October 28th through 30th, we will discuss and explore in greater detail the development of position papers on several themes related to school leadership. So I ask you ‘Have you signed in yet?’ If not… Please go to the website www.esha2012scotland.com and sign up. For each 100th delegate who books a place a free place will be offered. The overall co-ordination of the project is part-funded by the EC’ s Partnership Grant
Latest news
Consumer Education web site launched: Consumer Education is concerned with teaching people the skills, attitudes and knowledge required for living in a consumer society. More informatuion can be found here .
The LLWings project: On March the 18th, LLWings is organising a seminar aiming at the lauch of a European Teacher Qualification for lifelong learning. More information can be found here .
The LLWings consortium has been working at finalizing its online learning system for teachers aimed at acquiring and consolidating competences in the field of students’ motivation and learning to learn. ESHA encourages school heads in Europe to test the system. More information can be read here.
The university of Greece organizes a one week course on Digiskills on 30 June - 5 July 2013 in Crete. Read more about this course at the ICT page
The Fly Higher project aims to bring awareness to careers in the field of Aeronautics and to motivate young Europeans to embrace future career paths in this field. ESHA would highly value your input about the education system in your country. Please fill in this questionnaire. More information about the Fly Higher project can be found at www.flyhigher.eu
The ESHA 2012 conference videos of the keynote sessions and summaries of the workshop presentations are available online at: www.esha2012scotland.com
ESHA is proud to announce that the ESHA magazine is now available in English, Italian Spanish, german en French. Please sunscribe to the magazine here
Pearson Foundation publishes a video series profiling policies and practices of education systems that demonstrate high or improving performance in the PISA tests. Watch the videos at this site
EC Commissioner Vassiliou talks about the work of ESHA. Watch the video here
Eurydice publiced the annual update of teachers' and school heads' salaries and allowances in Europe 2011/2012. Read more about it here
US Congress agrees to cut 2.2 billion USD to education. 80.000 Education jobs at risk. Read more about it here.
ESHA participates in EPNoSL. ESHA participates in the European Policy Network on School Leadership. Read more about it here .
ESHA is a partner in the Lifelong Learning Program. The European Commission has awarded ESHA an operational grant under the Lifelong Learning programme. Read more about it here
Survey on long term mobility. Principals, teachers and other school education staff are invited to complete a short survey about a potential new long-term mobility action. Read more about it here.
Energy Education. Education Challenge yourself, become a champion in energy education! Primary and secondary schools across Europe are invited to participate in this exciting competition! Click here to read more about it
Keydata on education 2012. In Belgium the Executive agency in charge of culture and education is running a report linking the 37 countries in Europe and their educational developments and challenges. Read more about it here
ESHA 2012 Conference. The ESHA bi-annual conference will be held from 29-31 October 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Click here to go to the conference site.
the European Intervisitation Program. From April 20th to 25th this event will take place in the city of Leiden, The Netherlands. Click here to read more
Grading teachers. On the ESHA portal, we have posted an interesting article on Grading teachers . Please read it and give your feedback on the article on our community site.
ESHA is in close cooperation with the worldeducationforum.com and fully supports its activities-
Geert Govaert: Adminstrative Workload
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Chris Harrison: Autonomy of schools
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Andre de Best: Leadership
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Clive Byrne: Quality of education
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Greg Dempster: Reduced Budgets
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Fred Verboon: ICT @ School
CBE in The Netherlands announced its "Making Shift Happen Congress" in Amsterdam. On October 11th and 12th, CBE will bring together the most inspiring speakers like Michael Fullan (develop a culture of change), Andy Hargreaves (High Performance Networks) and John West Burnham (Increase your value). There are still places available on October 12th. For more information, please visit www.makingshifthappen.net
25 Major stakeholders in education and training adopt a common position paper on their vision for the future of education, training and youth programmes. Read the paper at: news.aspx
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ESHA launches it's community portal to facilitate the exchange and creation of ideas between school leaders. Watch Ton Duif's welcome video .
This is ESHA!
ESHA, the European School Heads Association, is a professional organisation for European School Heads. Members of ESHA are national organisations for school heads and deputy school heads within primary and secondary education. Nearly all European countries (both EU and non-EU) are represented within ESHA by one or more organisations.
ESHA is an international community in which experiences, visions and views between the members are exchanged and in which new ideas are born.
Aims for ESHA are:
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discussing and developing views within the ESHA-membership on innovative education and on school leadership
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promoting these views on the European level
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influencing the policy of the European institutions (Commission, Parliament)
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promoting international exchange and cooperation
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supporting the member organisations to play their role on the national level
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emphasizing the particular role of the school head and promoting conditions that improve the quality of school leadership
Means to attain these goals
ESHA will involve all possible means to attain the goals that are mentioned above. Each year the intended actions will be stated in a working plan. In general however the means are:
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Vision papers
ESHA publishes vision papers on important issues in international education -
Conferences
ESHA organizes various meetings and one big conference every two years -
International Projects
ESHA participates in European projects on issues like school leadership, staff training, multimedia and ICT and so on -
External Contacts
ESHA is in permanent contact with other relevant actors like European Commission, European Parliament, and other international organisations -
Communication
ESHA promotes communication and exchange between its members -
Organisational Structure
ESHA ‘s General Assembly consists of active school heads from all over Europe. The Board is small and decisive and is supported by a small and professional executive office.
ESHA is a partner in the Lifelong Learning Program.
The European Commission has awarded ESHA an operational grant under the Lifelong Learning programme. The grant enables ESHA to further professionalize its operations in order to increase the services to the School Heads in Europe. ESHA's aim is to get the school heads voice heard through participation in relevant European projects and disseminate usefull findings to the broad school heads audiences.
