dr. Rita Dukynaitė Rasa Šnipienė

Ričardas Ališauskas www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt /en

Duration: Duration: 2009 – 202009 – 201414

Definition of a Leader

• Not a principal of the school

• Anybody can be a leader in his working place

How is leadership encouraged?

Leaders are not produced, but an environment of secure (safe) risk is created for leaders to take responsibility, to use external support, and to become support to others

Ideology

„Firstly, a school should become not an object, which is ruled by somebody from outside, but a subject – player, with its own face, traditions, pulse (pace).“

habil dr. Meilė Lukšienė

Lietuvos švietimo reformos gairės, 1993

Target groups • Potential school principals• School principals• Deputy principals• Other school middle and low level leaders• Local education staff• National education staff• Trainers and consultants from:

– Other target groups– Universities– National education institutions

Goal of the project

• To form the basis for a support infrastructure for leaders in education

• To encourage the autonomy of education community

Aims of the project

• to develop a market of to develop a market of consultancy servicesconsultancy services responsive to the needs and opportunities of responsive to the needs and opportunities of education entities:education entities:

• To promote To promote decentralizationdecentralization of education of education managementmanagement

• to provide conditions for a single and to provide conditions for a single and integrated system for the integrated system for the development of the development of the competences of leaderscompetences of leaders at all levels at all levels

Technologies (Mng models) Leadership

People

Organisation

Consultations (face to face,

on-line)

Studies (formal and informal)

Career (secondment)

Science (research, studies)

Partnership (networks,

links)

Results of 2009-2011

CONSULTANCY - support to schoolsupport to school:• a model of education consultancy services is designed• six training programs for education consultants are prepared• a model for the preparation and implementation of the virtual environment

is developedDECENTRALIZATION - support to schoolsupport to school::• a description of the proposed school leadership models is preparedCOMPETENCES - support to an individualsupport to an individual::• a formal university study program (10 modules) is developed• a non-formal study program is developed• a model for the implementation of the non-formal study program is

designed• methodology and instruments for longitudinal research of the changes in

the manifestations of leadership in Lithuania are prepared and longitudinal research is carried out

•Per 60 000 nuolatinių svetainės lankytojų

•Didžiausias aktyvumas apie 400-500 lankytojų per dieną konferencijų metu.

•Per 1000 projekto gerbėjų Facebook

Extra activities 2009-2011

• Translation of 6 books, authors: P. Drucker, A. Haris, C. Glickman, Linda Lambert, -Robert Marzano, Timothy Waters and Brian McNulty-, Douglas Griffin

• Translations of articles from foreign languales• 15 titles of books on leadership in Lithuanian procured and introduced at

regional educational centres, filmed• Attendance of three conferences: Annual Leadership Conf in GB; ICSEI

2011 Congress (International forum); ICOT 2011 Conf: Developing a Culture of Good Thinking (International forum), presentations at national level

• COMENIUS network: Conf in Tallinn, Bolzano, Material on pre and in service training of principals from 26 countries

• Study visits

Activities of 2011 - 2014 Piloting of the results of Stage 1

• Leadership models with 15 municipalities and 75 schools• 75 students studing at the university, Leadership program• Studies following a non-formal program• 9 more consultancy programs• Redesigning of the legal system to support leadership• Two forums with 300 participants each• Two more longitudinal researches• PR of all the activities of the project (filming and documenting)

• Translation of 3 more books• Translations of articles from foreign languages• 15 titles of books more on leadership in Lithuanian with presentations and filming• Attendance of three conferences: presentations at national level• COMENIUS network: Conf in Leon, finalization of the activities• Study visits