Missed opportunities
By Petra van Haren On behalf of the European School Heads Association (ESHA), I wish to highlight the need to include the outcomes of research already financed by the EC…
New magazine HEADlight
The ESHA team is working on refreshing all activities and the ESHA brand. Our new magazine HEADlight is an important element of our efforts to help European school heads in…
Rescuing Assessment from the exam factory
Book review Assessment as Dialogue: Twenty Inspiring Practices from Classrooms and Schools across Europe In 2016, the then Director General of Education in the European Commission invited select civil society…
The resurgence of children’s agency in the era of the pandemic
The unpredictable outbreak of the pandemic has enhanced a narrative of the child as a medium of learning, which undermines children’s agency. In their research article ‘The child as a…
Leadership at every level
Turn the Ship Around is a book written by former U.S. Navy Submarine Commander David Marquet who gave a keynote address at the 2016 National Association for Principals & Deputys…
Little Film-makers – Modelling Roles and Professions at School
Intuition is a key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business… everything. David Lynch What do students want to do at school? How could the curriculum meet their actual needs? How…
Dialogue as a way of integration
The CHILD-UP project – Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation, researches the condition of the integration of migrant children in Europe with the…
School Leadership 2020+: Trends & Challenges
After several delays due to Covid, the biennial conference that was supposed to take place in the autumn of 2020, was finally held in Limassol, Cyprus. For up to 450…
“We must prepare children for a world that is yet to come”
Interview with Petra van Haren ESHA president Petra van Haren has been interviewed by reporter Markéta Rizikyová for Czech newspaper Lidové Noviny. They discussed topics such as the challenge of integrating…
