EPNoSL Dissemination report

Lifelong learning: policies and programme

European Policy Network On School Leadership (EAC/42/2010)

Grant Agreement EAC-2010-1388 Specific Agreement number: EAC-2010-1388/1

Dissemination report Del 5.1 Version: Final Date: 11-07-2015

With the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union

European Policy Network on School Leadership (EAC/42/2010)

Work Package: Contributors: Status, Version No. Submission date: Start Date of the Agreement: Duration of the Specific Agreement Dissemination Level: Project coordinator: Financing:

No. 5 - School Leadership Policy Developments beyond EPNoSL Pavlos Hatzopoulos, FORTH/IACM Final 11/7/2015 12 December 2012 18 Months Public Kathy Kikis-Papadakis, FORTH/IACM katerina@iacm.forth.gr With the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 4 1. PRODUCTION OF ADDITIONAL DISSEMINATION MATERIAL ................................................................... 5 1.1. PROMOTIONAL POLICY BRIEF .................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 PROMOTIONAL EPNOSL VIDEO .................................................................................................................. 6 1.3 UPDATED PROJECT BROCHURE ................................................................................................................... 7 1.4 INFOGRAPHICS ON SCHOOL LEADERSHIP POLICY DEVELOPMENT .......................................................................... 8 1.5 EPNOSL YOUTUBE CHANNEL................................................................................................................... 11 2. DISSEMINATION TO HIGH LEVEL POLICY .............................................................................................. 13 3. EPNOSL DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................... 15 3.1 EPNOSL NICE PLA ............................................................................................................................... 15 3.2 EPNOSL HERAKLION PLA ....................................................................................................................... 15 3.3 EPNOSL IN CONFERENCES/WORKSJOPS ..................................................................................................... 16 3.3.1 EPNOSL ORGANISED OR CO-ORGANISED EVENTS ............................................................................................... 16 3.3.2 EPNOSL PARTICIPATION IN OTHER WORKSHOPS /CONFERENCES............................................................................ 21 3.4 EPNOSL PORTAL .................................................................................................................................. 24 3.5 EPNOSL NEWSLETTERS .......................................................................................................................... 25 3.6 EPNOSL WEBINARS .............................................................................................................................. 25 3.7 EPNOSL ACADEMIC AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS ............................................................................................ 25 3.7.1 ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS .............................................................................................................................. 25 3.7.2 OTHER PUBLICATIONS ................................................................................................................................... 26 4. PLANNED DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................ 27 4.1 EPNOSL CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ................................................................................................................ 27 4.2 EPNOSL PARTICIPATION IN OTHER WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES .............................................................................. 27 4.3 ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS................................................................................................................................. 28

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Introduction The aim of this deliverable is to describe and document all EPNoSL promotional activities during the current work programme. Dissemination and Exploitation activities are an integral part of EPNoSL's goal of making an impact on School Leadership developments at the level of empowering coherent policy development actions.

This report is divided in 4 main sections. The first section presents the supplementary dissemination material that has been produced by EPNoSL with the purpose of increasing the visibility of the project's work as well as for enhancing policy reflection on the promotion of school leadership. These materials are considered as “supplementary� in the sense that they were not originally envisaged in the current work plan, but emerged in the process of the network's engagement with school leadership stakeholders in different contexts. The second section focuses on dissemination activities to high policy circles, particularly as EPNoSL outputs during the current period are firmly oriented towards the needs of the policy makers. The third section describes all the different types of the more traditional dissemination activities that have been by utilised EPNoSL since its inception, highlighting the significant growth of the audience reach that EPNoSL's work has had in the past year. The final section briefly refers to the planned dissemination activities that have been scheduled by EPNoSL partners beyond the current funding period.

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1. Production of additional dissemination material In the context of the current work programme, the EPNoSL partnership has produced a series of supplementary dissemination materials that are intended to engage different groups of school leadership stakeholders. These materials have been designed to supplement the contractual EPNoSL outputs in a way that can make them more ready-to-use to different school leadership stakeholders as well as for enhancing the visibility of EPNoSL’s work to the wider public.

This material has been distributed widely in both digital and non-digital forms across the territories that are covered by the network.

The additional dissemination materials produced are briefly presented below.

1.1. Promotional policy brief This short user-friendly text titled, “Promoting the policy agenda on school leadership from the perspective of equity and learning” has summarised the policy-relevant outcomes of EPNoSL activities so far. It is intended a) as a dissemination tool, communicating EPNoSL’s work on school leadership policy development to a wider audience, and b) as a resource for school leadership stakeholders, providing them with tools and analysis for meeting challenges and identifying areas for policy attention to support and enhance school leadership for equity and learning.

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European Policy Network on School Leadership (EAC/42/2010) The text is available online < http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/deliverable/promoting-policy-agendaschool-leadership-perspective-equity-and-learning> and < http://issuu.com/epnosl/docs/promoting_the_policy_agenda_on_scho> and has also been printed in 500 copies do far. The hard copies have been mailed to all 29 European Ministers of Education, distributed to all participants of the first EPNoSL PLA of this period and to participants of other EPNoSL or EPNoSL-related events across Europe.

1.2 Promotional EPNoSL video EPNoSL produced an original promotional video in the occasion of its final Peer Learning Activity that was held in Heraklion, Crete on May 28-29, 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2FT_4MlCVo. The video was then uploaded to YouTube and has enjoyed 263 views, so far. The video attempts to introduce EPNoSLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach to school leadership policy development for equity and learning in a user-friendly manner.

In the effort to produce multilingual dissemination material, the video has also been translated to Lithuanian so far while other translations are pending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c1BajTHTwM. The Lithuanian promotional video has been disseminated separately by EPNoSL partners, LEU: it has been sent to 1.250 email accounts of Lithuanian primary and secondary schools and also to Local Municipalities, to heads of Education Department of Vilnius, Vilnius district, Trakai, Salcininkai, Svencionys, and Sirvintos towns.

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1.3 Updated project brochure An updated project brochure has been produced, which highlights the important project achievements during the current work program. The project brochure was distributed in hard copy during the Heraklion PLA and has also been made available on the project portal: http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/project/brochure

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1.4 Infographics on school leadership policy development EPNoSL has produced four original infographics tackling main policy concerns that the EPNoSL network is set to address during this programme period. The four infographics visualise the main policy-related tasks that the EPNoSL has undertaken to address. These are a. Benefits of school leadership policy action planning

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b. Dealing with complexities of school leadership policy action planning

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c. Guiding principles of school leadership policy action planning

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d. School leadership policy development: Key priority areas

The four Inforgraphics are available online <http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/event/page/nice/background-material> and <http://www.slideshare.net/Epnosl> and have also been printed in 500 hard copies /each do far. The hard copies have been mailed to all 29 European Ministers of Education, distributed to all participants of the first EPNoSL PLA of this period and to participants of other EPNoSL or EPNoSL-related events across Europe.

1.5 EPNoSL YouTube channel EPNoSL has launched a specialized YouTube channel which features videos that not only document EPNoSL activities, but that also visualize certain key aspects of EPNoSLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; framework for school leadership policy development.

The channel can be visited, here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe6GpxMOBLWzKvYhlidYWzA Overall, 97 videos have been uploaded so far, organized around 7 playlists: - EPNoSL promotional videos (4 videos)

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European Policy Network on School Leadership (EAC/42/2010) - EPNoSL policy tools (10 videos) - EPNoSL webinars (12 videos) - Interviews with policy-makers (4 videos) - EPNoSL Heraklion PLA, 2015 (10 videos) - EPNoSL Nice PLA, 2014 (29 videos) - EPNoSL Vilnius PLA, 2013 (28 videos) The videos uploaded in the EPNoSL YouTube channel have received more than 10.819 view, from October 2014 to 12 July 2015.

It is important to stress, here, that the number of views has more than doubled after the time of submission of the interim dissemination report (February 2015). The number of views is thus expected to keep on rising significantly after the end of the funding period.

Figure 1: The most popular video of the EPNoSL YouTube channel so far, “Leadership is …distributed” – 5.267 views.

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2. Dissemination to high level policy One of the main EPNoSL objectives in the context of Work Package 5 is “the stimulation of high level cooperation...under the scope of stimulating development of national / regional policies, regulatory arrangements and provisions”.

To this effect, EPNoSL has opened up channels of communication with all European Ministries of Education and, when possible, to communicate directly with Ministers (or Ministers' offices).

The EPNoSL coordinator has managed, during the current work program, to regularise these communication flows for ensuring a higher visibility of EPNoSL to high policy circles as well as promoting the implementation of the priorities for development of School Leadership.

The particular instruments that have been used by the EPNoSL to this effect, are: - Asking for face-to-face meetings with policy-makers working in selected Education Ministers' offices in (as far as this is allowed by the limited project resources).

- Distribution of all EPNoSL outputs to all Minister offices of all European states (including printed versions of “The EPNoSL Briefing Notes on School Leadership Policy Development” , the “Promoting the policy agenda on school leadership from the perspective of equity and learning”, and the “EPNoSL School Leadership Toolkit” and usb sticks containing digital versions of all other project outputs).

- Invitations to all Ministries of Education to send representatives to the Nice and Heraklion PLAs. The response rate of Ministries of Education to these EPNoSL attempts of disseminating knowledge and raising the awareness of policy makers for School Leadership policy development has been quite satisfactory.

- Ten Ministries of Education that are not members of the EPNoSL network sent representatives to attend the EPNoSL Nice and Heraklion PLAs. The additional Ministries that were present in Nice and Heraklion included: 1. Ireland – Ministry of Education and Skills 2. Romania – Ministry of Education and Scientific Research 3. Norway – Ministry of Education and Research 4. Northern Ireland – Department of Education 5. Hungary – Ministry of Human Resources, directorate for Education 6. Cyprus – Ministry of Education and Culture 7. Germany (Schleswig-Holstein) - Ministry for Education and Science 8. Bulgaria - Ministry of Education and Science 9. Germany (Baden-Württemberg), Ministry of Education 10. Lithuania - Ministry of Education and Science

- Five face-to-face meetings have taken place with representatives of Ministries of Education 

in France (in Paris, on 26 November 2014,

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in the UK, on 20 November 2014, Sin cotland (with the Scittish College of Educational leadership on 18 November 2014), In Lithuania on 24 February 2015, In Hungary on 11 March 2015, and In Malta, on 7-8 July 2015).

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3. EPNoSL Dissemination activities In this section, the report summarises partcular dissemination activities as these have been analysed in the dissemination plan for this working period.

3.1 EPNoSL Nice PLA EPNoSL organised its first Peer-Learning-Activity of the current period in Nice, France on 25-26 September 2014. The first PLA attracted 137 participants in total (37 more than the target set in the current the work programme). There was a relatively wide dissemination of the announcement for the Nice PLA and coverage of its activities. Indications of the dissemination of the coverage of the PLA are: The google search with the terms â&#x20AC;&#x153;EPNoSL, Nice, PLAâ&#x20AC;? that returns 918 results in total and the participation of 57 stakeholders from France (mainly from the Nice area) who were introduced to EPNoSL through mostly through this coverage by local media.

The Nice PLA has been the main event through which EPNoSL outputs and ongoing work was disseminated so far. All PLA participants received usb sticks with all the outputs that have been produced by the EPNoSL project since 2011, while ongoing work (the EPNoSL policy toolkit, regional action plans, case studies on good practices) were presented to the PLA plenary and discussed in-depth in smaller groups comprising of a variety of schooo leadership stakeholders.

Video documentation from the Nice PLA is also available via the EPNoSL YouTube channel (at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlYDp6HtVzIR1ht48JtcyVjZdKFx63kNn), receiving till today more than 600 views in total.

The outputs of the Nice PLA are analysed in detail in the context of the forthcoming EPNoSL report (D 5.2), so they will be not be dealt with, here.

3.2 EPNoSL Heraklion PLA EPNoSL organized its second PLA in Heraklion, Crete on 28-29 May, 2015. The Heraklion PLA attracted 123 participants, overall (23 more than the target set in the current the work programme).

The Heraklion PLA was the main event for presenting the key outcomes of the EPNoSL project and for increasing the visibility of EPNoSL's final outputs amongst policy makers at all levels of governance. All pPLA participants received a hard copy of the EPNoSL Toolkit on School Leadership for equity and larning.

Video documentation from the Heraklion PLA is also available via the EPNoSL YouTube channel (at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HRWLPcBzNw&list=PLlYDp6HtVzISSfiYkLJWV9NNIU0irdIvY ), receiving till today more than 400 views in total.

The outputs of the Heraklion PLA are analysed in detail in the context of the forthcoming EPNoSL report (D 5.2), so they will be not be dealt with, here.

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3.3 EPNoSL in conferences/worksjops Beyond the open events that were originally planned in the current work program (the two PLAs and national networking events), EPNoSL has managed to enhance its presence in school leadership conferences/workshops or school leadership-related events. During the third period of implementation, the EPNoSL partners organized 16 additional EPNoSL open events (4 conferences, 7 workshops, 4 seminars, and 1 lecture series), while EPNoSL partners held separate sessions and/or gave presentations on the work conducted within the context of the project in 11 additional events. This type of dissemination activities are summarised below (both categories follow a chronological order): 3.3.1 EPNoSL organised or co-organised events

1. 2nd EPNoSL Berlin Conference on School Leadership Date: 18-19 September 2014 Place: Berlin, Germany Co-organisers: Das Landesinstitut f체r Schule und Medien Berlin-Brandenburg (LISUM) und das Nieders채chsische Landesinstitut f체r schulische Qualit채tsentwicklung (NLQ) Participants no: 288 Documentation: http://wordpress.nibis.de/epnosl/ 2. EPNoSL Workshop: Inclusive Leadership: Challenges and Perspectives from the European Policy Network on School Leadership Date: 18 June 2014 Place: Athens, Greece Co-organiser: European Agency on Special Needs and Inclusive Education Participants no: 27 Documentation: http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/article/epnosl-workshop-raising-achievement-alllearners-inclusive-education-kick-meeting 3. EPNoSL Workshop: The role of school leadership in educational improvement Date: 11 September 2014 Place: Lisbon, Portugal Organisers: Universidade Lusofona EPNoSL team Participants no: 100 approximately

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4. Workshop: How to Support School Leadership for Equity and Learning Date: 6-10 October 2014 Place: Riga, Latvia Organisers: National Centre for Education, Latvia and Council of Europe â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pestalozzi program Participants no: 40 approximately Documentation: http://www.coe.int/en/web/pestalozzi/ 5. Joint Event: The Scottish approach to address School Leadership policy developments Date: 18 November 2014 Place: Edinburgh, Scotland Co-organisers: General Teaching Council of Scotland (GTCS), the Scottish College for Educational Leadership (SCEL) Participants no: 46 Documentation: http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/article/scottish-approach-address-schoolleadership-policy-developments

6. Continuing Innovative Conference "Importance of Leadership for the Improvement of Education Process at Institutions of Education" Dates: 18 November 2014 to 19 March 2015 Organiser: Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Institute of Professional Competence Documentation: http://www.leu.lt/en/leu_intc2014/intc2014_leadership/intc2014il_home.html This continuing conference has included a series of events focusing on the work and activities of EPNoSL. Thematic sessions coincide with the online webinars held in the context of the EPNoSL 2014-15 VIP series.

6.1. "Opening event": Introducing EPNoSL activities Date: 18 November 2014 Participants no: 26 Documentation: http://www.leu.lt/lt/pkti/pkti_naujienos/archyvas/p20/inovatyvi-konferencija-lyderystest6n2.html and http://leu.lt/lt/leu_naujienos/universiteto-naujienos/archyvas/p90/pkti_konferencija.html

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6.2. Session: "Policy Response" Date: November 25, 2014 Participants no: 22 Documentation: http://www.leu.lt/lt/pkti/pkti_naujienos/archyvas/p20/leu-pkti-vyks-fyww.html http://leu.lt/lt/leu_naujienos/universiteto-naujienos/archyvas/p70/lyderyste_2014-11-25.html

and

6.3. Session: "Distributed leadership" Date: 9 December 2014 Participants no: 21.

Documentation: dy65.html and 09.html

http://www.leu.lt/lt/pkti/pkti_naujienos/archyvas/p10/konferencijos-lyderystes-svarbahttp://leu.lt/lt/leu_naujienos/universiteto-naujienos/archyvas/p40/lyderyste_2014-12-

6.4. Session: "Educating School Leaders" Date: 27 January 2015 Participants no: 14.

Documentation: http://www.leu.lt/lt/pkti/pkti_naujienos/p10/leu-pkti-vyks-vezy.html http://leu.lt/lt/leu_naujienos/universiteto-naujienos/p30/konferencija-2015-01-27.html

and

7. Workshop on Equity and Learning as part of Institutional Strategies Date: 11 November 2014 Place: Budapest, Hungary Organiser: Tempus Public Foundation Participants no: approximately 110 8. Symposium: International Perspectives on the Practice and Development of School Leadership and Policy as Distributed Phenomena Date: 21 November 2014 Place: Edinburgh, UK Organisers: University of Hertfordshire EPNoSL team

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Participants no: approximately 20 Documentation: http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/article/symposium-international-perspectivespractice-and-development-school-leadership-and-policy-d

9. EPNoSL seminar: Study Together â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Supporting Leadership Date: 21 November 2014 Place: Ghent, Belgium Co-organisers: Flemish ministry of Education and Training and Netherlands School of Educational Management (NSO) Participants no: 34 Documentation: http://www.ond.vlaanderen.be/inschrijven/inschrijving.aspx?id=167 10. EPNoSL seminar on pedagogical supervision Date: 23 January 2015 Place: Lisbon, Portugal Organisers: Universidade Lusofona EPNoSL team Participants no: 50 approximately

11. Lecture series by Prof. Philip Woods on the Distributed Leadership for equity and learning toolset Date: 22-26 February 2015 Place: Vilnius, Lithuania Organisers: Mykolas Romanis University, Lithuania and the University of Hertfordshire EPNoSL team Participants no: 60 Documentation: http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/article/lecture-series-prof-philip-woodsdistributed-leadership-equity-and-learning-dle-and-dle-tool

12. Conference on educational policy and school leadership Date: 16 April 2015 Place: Tartu, Estonia

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Organisers: University of Tartu, the Estonian Science Foundation, the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research and the Estonian Academic Pedagogical Society Participants no: 190

13. Workshop on School Leaders and Equity in Education Date: 16 April 2015 Place: Budapest, Hungary Organiser: Tempus Public Foundation Participants no: approximately 90-100 Documentation: equity-education

http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/article/hungarian-workshop-school-leaders-and-

14. EPNoSL Zilina event - The Importance of leadership in the development of regional education Date: 22 June 2015 Co-organisers: Žilina self-governing region and Faculty of Humanities, University of Žilina Participants no: 122 Documentation: regional-education

http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/event/importance-leadership-development-

15. International seminar – Autonomy and leadership in schools Date: 29-30 June 2015 Place: Lisbon, Portugal Co-organiser: Ministério da Educação e Ciência, Portugal Participants no: approximately 90-100 Documentation: http://www.dgeste.mec.pt/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/SEMDGAE.pdf

16. International Seminar - Leadership in Education: Policy Debates and Strategic Action Date: 10-11 July 2015

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European Policy Network on School Leadership (EAC/42/2010) Place: Rome, Italy Co-organisers: Master in Leadership e Management in Educazione - Università Roma Tre and the ECPS journal Participants no: approximately 90-100 Documentation: http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/event/international-seminar-leadership-educationpolicy-debates-and-strategies-action 3.3.2 EPNoSL participation in other workshops/conferences

1. EPNoSL presentation: “Towards evidence-based School Leadership Policies” Conference: 2014 EIPPEE Conference - Finding a way... to facilitate the better use of research in education Organisers: EIPPEE network in collaboration with the Norwegian Knowledge Center for Education Conference Date: 14 May 2014 Place: Oslo, Norway Documentation: http://www.eippee.eu/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=3429

2. EPNoSL presentation: Beyond Uniformity: On School Leadership Policy Development in Europe Conference: The Future of Education (4th edition) Date: 12 June 2014 Place: Florence, Italy Documentation: http://conference.pixel-online.net/FOE/acceptedabstracts_scheda.php?id_abs=474

3. EPNoSL session: Cooperation and leadership in school Conference: Teaching profession. Report on the State of Education 2013 Organiser: Educational Research Institute - Poland Date: 25 June 2014 Place: Warsaw, Poland Documentation: leadership-schools

http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/article/conference-session-cooperation-and-

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4. EPNoSL session: School Leadership for equity and learning Conference: 2014 BELMAS Conference Organiser: British Educational Leadership and Administration Society Date: 25 June 2014 Place: Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK Documentation: http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/article/epnosl-session-2014-belmas-conference

5. EPNoSL session: School Leadership systems and vocational school heads Seminar for Estonian vocational schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; heads Organiser: University of Tartu Date: 16 October 2014 Place: Tartu, Estonia Documentation: schools%E2%80%99-heads

http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/article/seminar-estonian-vocational-

6. EPNoSL presentation: Priorities for the development of School Leadership policies in Europe Conference: For a Sustainable School Leadership: Ethics and democracy Organiser: School Leaders Association, Cyprus and Regional Directorate for Education, Crete Date: 22 October 2014 Place: Limassol, Cyprus

Documentation: http://sedmek.org/index.php/proposal-synedrio 7. EPNoSL roundtable: Getting acquainted with the European Policy Network on School Leadership Conference: 2014 ESHA Conference â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bringing Leadership together Organiser: European School Heads Association (ESHA) Date: 28 October 2014 Place: Dubrovnik, Croatia

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Documentation: http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/article/epnosl-2014-esha-conference 8. EPNoSL discussion: Future collaboration on Teachers Development Programs in Portugal Date: 31 October2014 Place: Lisbon, Portugal Organisers: Universidade Lusofona EPNoSL team and Assocaition of Teachers Centres Directors, Portugal Participants no: 7

9. EPNoSL participation in “Stakeholder’s reactions to KeyCoNet’s recommendations from divers e professional and national perspectives” roundtable Conference: KeyCoNet final conference Organiser: KeyCoNet - the European Policy Network on Key Competences Date: 26 November 2014 Place: Brussels, Belgium Documentation: http://keyconet.eun.org/conference;jsessionid=752CF6490EA5E4C07054047DFBC8D796

10. EPNoSL presentation at the ET 2020 Working Group on Schools Policy Date: 26 February 2015 Place: Brussels, Belgium Documentation: http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/article/epnosl-presentation-et-2020-workinggroup-schools-policy

11. EPNoSL presentation at the EI-ETUCE Conference on Educational Leadership Date: 3-4 March 2015 Place: Amsterdam, Holland Organisers: ETUCE and Educational International Participants no: 80 Documentation: leadership

http://www.csee-etuce.org/ru/news/calendar/612-ei-etuce-conference-on-educational-

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3.4 EPNoSL portal The EPNoSL portal <www.schoolleadership.eu> is the main digital resource center of all EPNoSL publications, activities, and events as well as a wider resource hub of school leadership policy and practice. Apart from documenting all of EPNoSL's work, the portal is regularly updated with school leadership news from Europe and beyond, including reports by international organisations, articles and newsletters, upcoming school leadership events, and a dedicated section to EU events and publications.

The project coordinator undertook the task of upgrading the existing EPNoSL portal with the purpose of increasing the audience reach of EPNoSL outputs. This upgrading included: - The re-design of the first page of the current portal in order to increase its usability.

- The creation of multiple EPNoSL social media accounts, which will also be linked to the portal (Facebook page, twitter account, issuu profile, and Slideshare profile).

- The integration of the EPNoSL policy toolkit digital platform in the current portal.

The upgraded portal was launched in March 2015.

The EPNoSL portal currently features 1.145 posts in total.

The portal has managed to significantly increase its audience reach during the current work programme. For the period starting from 11 January 2014 up to 12 July 2015, the portal has received 32,395 visits, 24,431 unique visitors and 88,733 pageviews (according to the statistics provided by Google Analytics). This marks an increase of approximately 23% in comparison to the statistics for the second implementation period.

3.4.1 School Leadership Toolkit Digital Platform In order the disseminate widely the school leadership toolkit, EPNoSL has creared a specialized digital interactive platform. This interactive digital platform has been the main publication vehicle of the EPNoSL Toolkit: http://toolkit.schoolleadership.eu/ . This digital platform contains a variety of multimedia material (videos, animations, interactive maps) and will enable users to create and participate in real-time policy reflection activities. This digital platform was launched in March 2015 and has enjoyed so far: 1,136 visits, 681 unique visitors and 3,899 pageviews (according to the statistics provided by Google Analytics)..

3.4.2 EPNoSL case studies online platform The network is in the process of producing a special online platform that will feature the main results of its in a more accessible form. The goal of this platform is to facilitate the wider dissemination of the case studies report that has been published by the Network in February 2015 http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/deliverable/school-leadership-policy-practices-equity-and-learningepnosl-case-studies.

At the moment of writing this report, the development of the online platform is still in progress. Its publication is expected to take place within July 2015.

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3.5 EPNoSL Newsletters EPNoSL has utilised its e-newsletter as a far more potent dissemination tool than initially anticipated in the current work programme. Instead of distributing 3 newsletters as envisaged in the work programme, the network has produced 12 newsletter issues during this period.

These 9 issues have been distributed in the months of April, June, July, September, October, November, December of 2014 and in January, February, March, May, and July of 2015. The newsletters have focused on the promotion of the EPNoSL third period outputs, the promotion of EPNoSl webinars and other EPNoSL events (Nice and Heraklion PLAs and so on. The newsletters reach directly 655 registered subscribers and overall 5.907 e-mail accounts through its further distribution to members of the professional associations (ESHA, ETUCE, EPA, and EFEE) who are full members of the EPNoSL network.

Direct newsletter subscribers have increased during this period by 77% (they were 369 on January 2014). The open rate of the EPNoSL newsletter is 30.1% overall - significantly higher than what is taken to be the average of Educational and Training newsletters worldwide (18.7%), showing an increasing interest on EPNoSL by a wider community of stakeholders. All the newsletter are available online: http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/newsletter and are also visited by interested parties via the EPNoSL portal.

3.6 EPNoSL Webinars EPNoSL organized five webinars focusing on its work on the policy toolkit and on case studies of good practices. The EPNoSL webinars were designed to facilitate the work of the network in relation to these two tasks, but acted also as a dissemination tool. The five webinars had all together 226 participants, of which 83 were face to face participants at the Lithuanian University of Education (LEU), who were members of the Lithuanian national network and who watched the webinar s in a room together.

Moreover, the webinar recordings have been uploaded to the EPNoSL YouTube channel, enjoying 761 views so far.

3.7 EPNoSL academic and other publications 3.7.1 Academic publications

EPNoSL partners have made the following academic publication based on work conducted within the context of the network's activities.

1.. "La question du leadership en éducation. Perspectives européennes", book edited by J.-L. Derouet and R. Normand. Lyon: Academia, 2014 2. “School Leadership for Equity: Lessons from the Literature”, by Ward, S., Bagley, C., Woods, P., Lumby, J., Hamilton, T. & Roberts, A. Published in International Journal of Inclusive Education. June 2014 3. “What is “policy” and what is “policy response”?: An illustrative study of the implementation of the Leadership Standards for Social Justice in Scotland”, by Ward, S., Bagley, C., Woods, P., Lumby, J., Hamilton,

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European Policy Network on School Leadership (EAC/42/2010) T. & Roberts, A. Accepted for publication by the Educational Management Administration & Leadership. To be published in June 2015.

4. Smit, J., Bagley, C. & Ward, S. (2014). Uncovering Policy Response: Primary School Principals in the Netherlands and the Professions in Education Act. Journal of Contemporary Educational Studies 65/131(4): 30-47.

5. Special issue on Leadership in Education: The Challenges of Leading Educational Institutions, edited by Majda Cencič and Justina Erčulj, published in December 2014, vol. 65, number 4, by the Journal of Contemporary Educational Studies.

6. “School Leadership for equity and learning and the question of school autonomy”, by P.Hatzopoulos, K. Kikis-Papadakis, A. Kollias. Estonian Journal of Education. Ωολ. 3, νο.1, 2015.

7. Special section “School Leadership for equity and Learning”, edited by A.P. Silva and C. Climaco for the Revista Lusófona de Educação vol. 30, no. 30, 2015.

8. Special journal issue on “Leadership in Education: Policy debates and strategies in action” edited by G. Barzano and A Moreti. by the Educational, cultural and Psychological Studies , no. 11, 2015.

3.7.2 Other publications

1. Special Section on EPNoSL in the portal of the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences This special dynamic section hosts radio discussion, news on EPNoSL activities, reports on EPNoSL events, and EPNoSL publications translated in Lithuanian: http://www.leu.lt/lt/pkti/epnosl_105532.html 2. Special EPNoSL section: rettedialogues.it The EPNoSL Italian partners have created this special section, hosting news on EPNoSL activities, reports on EPNoSL events, and EPNoSL publications translated in Italian: https://retedialogues.it/presentazioneepnosl/.

3. “Apple on the tree” TPF publication The Hungarian partner, Tempus Public Foundation, included a special section with a summary of EPNoSL understandings on equity and interviews with school leaders in its “Apple on the tree” series that appeared in April 2015.

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4. Planned dissemination activities In its effort to ensure the sustainability of the network beyond the funding period, EPNoSL and network partners have already planned several dissemination activities in the coming months. These are summarized below.

4.1 EPNoSL Conferences/Workshops

1. Workshop on the EPNoSL Toolkit at the "Education and School Leadership" Symposium Date: 2 September 2015 Place, Zug, Switzerlans Organisers: EPNoSL Documentation: http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/article/workshop-epnosl-toolkit-education-andschool-leadership-symposium

2. EPNoSL Professional development workshop: "Uplifting Leadership" Date: 10 September 2015 Place: Tartu, Estonia Organisers: National Education Centre, Latvia and the University of Tartu Documentation: uplifting-leadership

http://www.schoolleadership.eu/portal/event/professional-development-workshop-

3. 3rd EPNoSL Berlin Conference on School Leadership Date: 21-22 September 2015 Place: Berlin, Germany Organisers: State Institute for School and Media Berlin-Brandenburg (LISUM) and the Lower Saxony State Institute for School Quality Development (NLQ) - in cooperation with the Heinrich Bรถll Foundation.

Conference website: http://wordpress.nibis.de/epnosl/ 4.2 EPNoSL participation in other workshops/conferences

1. 9th UIA Associations Round Table Europe

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European Policy Network on School Leadership (EAC/42/2010) Date: 13 November 2015 Place: Brussels, Belgium Organiser: Union of International Associations Documentation: http://www.uia.org/roundtable 4.3 Academic Publications

The following publication has already been scheduled after the end of the current period: - Edited book: â&#x20AC;&#x153;School Leadership Policy Development for Equity and Learning: Challenges and Innovative Approachesâ&#x20AC;?, Scheduled for publication as a two-volume Handbook of Research in 2015/2016 by the IGI Global Publishing House.

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