Project updates

Launch of the dissemination platform

After the finalisation of the products and the translation, the steering Committee is happy to launch the dissemination platform where all products, tools and deliverables are accessible and downloadable :

https://headmastersupport.eu/

18-20 February 2020 CERTI4Headmasters project kick-out in Bratislava, @Teach For Slovakia – Manageria

The meeting was hosted by Teach For Slovakia - Manageria

Participants: representatives from Teach For Belgium, Teach First Deutschland, Teach For Slovakia

Objectives of the meeting:

- Evaluate at this stage of the project the management of the project (steering committee, risks & quality management)

- Plan and organize the dissemination activities

- Write the basics of the final report

6-8 November 2019 4rth consortium meeting in Brussels, @Teach For Belgium & @Institut de la Sainte Famille

During this transnational meeting, partners and invited headmasters exchanged about their initial training.

Nov, 6, participants have visited Institut de la Sainte Famille in Brussels and have exchanged about how Headmasters are initially trained in their three countries. They met Alex Pett, an alumni of Teach First UK and Headmaster of a school in London.

Nov, 7, at Institut Saint-Joseph in Brussels, Teach For Slovakia has presented the results of the 3rd survey. This was followed by a workshop to design an ideal Headmaster training and a wish list of training what miss in the actual program. At Don Bosco Institute, Teach for Belgium tutors Vinciane Costa et Nicolas DeLobel gave a workshop to let Headmasters discover and live a support tool, OASIS.

Nov,8, after the steering committee meeting, at Teach for Belgium office, Headmasters met Xavier Prats Monné (Teach for All Special Advisor, Teach for Belgium and Teach for Spain board member, and former Title Advisor, Cabinet of the EU Commissioner for Regional Policy And Director General At European Commision) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/xavierpratsmonne/) to exchange about how Teach For All works to accelerate partners' progress and increase their impact by capturing and sharing knowledge, facilitating connections across the network, accessing global resources for the benefit of the whole, and fostering leadership development of staff, teachers, and alumni. After, Headmasters thought how to stay connected and how they could disseminate the results of the project in their network.

Participants:

Teach First Deutschland, DE: Eva Ritzenhoff and Stefan Gülck

Headmasters: Sonja Rehm-Zimmer (Konkordia-Grundschule), Karsten Reisinger and Silke Schilasky (122. Grundschule „Am Palitzschhof“), Angela Boschütz (Oberschule Dresden „Johann Georg Palitzsch“)

Quinoa, DE: Ulrike Senff, Pantelis Pavlakidis, Fenna Eilers and Menel Amamou

Teach for Belgium, BE – Coordinator: Yohann Fleury

Headmasters: Sophie Geeraerts (Institut Saint-Joseph), Dirk Kerkhoven (Don Bosco Sint-Pieters-Woluwe), Natacha Dumortier and Béatrice Brees (C.S. Eperonniers-Mercelis)

Institut de la Sainte Famille, BE: Veronica Pellegrini, Bernard Frans

Manageria (Teach for Slovakia), SK: Roman Veverka and Mária Sroková, Lenka Svoradová (Head of Recruitment, Selection and Marketing), Martina Matrtajová (Fellow), Mária Dečová, Erik Tomásch

Headmasters: Ludmila Barlová, Vladimíra Perníčková

ZŠ Kecerovce, SK: Alena Dávidová (Headmaster), Zuzana Sojková (Fellow), Miroslav Galas-Zaufal (Mayor)

Oct. 2019 - 3rd online survey

This third Certi4Headmasters Survey has as objective to collect information concerning headmasters trainings

Follow this link to answer this survey : https://forms.gle/7xiMChqrWQeo1ZkWA

Please answer it and share the link !!

Dissemination activities during the Teach for Belgium training weekend 12-13 october 2019

Headmaster experts committee

Within the framework of the CERTI4Headmasters project, setting up the expert committee is an important step to validate the headmaster skill card developed in the project and to meet the requirements of the ISO 17024 standard should the consortium decide to develop an ISO 17024 compliant certification scheme for headmasters in a follow-up project.

The expert committee is open to interested parties who have an interest to recognize and to certify headmasters’ competences.

It is composed of European actors representing headmasters, public and private organizations, certifications bodies, research centres, financing bodies and public authorities.

11 experts committee members (2019-05-10)

Bernard Frans (BE)

Eva Ritzenhoff (DE)

Karsten Reisinger (DE)

Mária Sroková (SK)

Pantelis Pavlakidis (DE)

Rebecca Ludewig (DE)

Silke Schilasky (DE)

Stephane Jacquemart (CH)

Sonja Rehm-Zimmer (DE)

Veronica Pelligrini (BE)

Yohann Fleury (BE)

8-10 May 2019 3rd consortium meeting in Berlin, @Teach First Deutschland & @Quinoa-Schule

During this transnational meeting, partners and invited headmasters exchanged about recruitment, selection and induction of teachers.

May, 8, participants have visited Quinoa-Schule, Kühnemannstraße 26, 13409 Berlin and have exchanged about recruitment and selection of teachers.

May, 9, Teach For Slovakia has presented the results of the 2nd survey. This was followed by a presentation by TFD of the Intus Program (Teacher Induction and Selection through Video Analyses) and by 2 workshops about recruitment tools and welcome books.

May,10, after the steering committee meeting, EFCoCert launches the workshop about headmasters responsibilities, main activities and the related competences. The last workshop coordinated by Institut St-Joseph had as objective to work on a roadbook for induction of new teachers.

Participants:

Teach First Deutschland, DE: Eva Ritzenhoff

Headmasters: Sonja Rehm-Zimmer (Konkordia-Grundschule), Karsten Reisinger and Silke Schilasky (122. Grundschule „Am Palitzschhof“)

Quinoa, DE: Pantelis Pavlakidis, Rebecca Ludewig

Teach for Belgium, BE – Coordinator: Yohann Fleury and Amelie De Keulenaer

Headmasters: Sophie Geeraerts (Institut Saint-Joseph), Dirk Kerkhoven (Don Bosco Sint-Pieters-Woluwe), Natacha Dumortier and Béatrice Brees (C.S. Eperonniers-Mercelis)

Institut de la Sainte Famille, BE: Veronica Pellegrini, Bernard Frans

Manageria (Teach for Slovakia), SK: Roman Veverka and Mária Sroková, Lenka Svoradová (Head of Recruitment, Selection and Marketing), Martina Matrtajová (Fellow)

Headmasters: Ludmila Barlová, Vladimíra Perníčková

ZŠ Kecerovce, SK: Alena Dávidová (Headmaster), Zuzana Sojková (Fellow), Miroslav Galas-Zaufal (Mayor)

Foundation EFCoCert, CH: Stéphane Jacquemart

10 april 2019 - 2nd online survey

This second Certi4Headmasters Survey has as objective to collect information concerning teacher Recruiting, Selection and Induction

Follow this link to answer this survey : https://forms.gle/9PQv3Eb74Dxp9P7W6

Please answer it and share the link !!

13-15 Mar. 2019 Consortium meeting in Bratislava @Teach For Slovakia & @ZŠ a MŠ Veľké Leváre

After the visit of ZŠ a MŠ Veľké Leváre , the 2nd and the 3rd days were dedicated the exchange of their best practices, the analysis of the 1st survey results (87 participants from 18 countries), and the presentation of the draft of the headmaster job profile & skill card. Partners have also exchanged about the tutor skill card that was produced in a former European project "CERTITUDE" (2012-2014).

Participants of the Bratislava CERTI4Headmasters Meeting

Manageria (Teach for Slovakia, TFS), SK – Host partner: Roman Veverka and Mária Sroková,

Headmasters: Ľudmila Barlová, Vladimíra Perníčková,

Teach for Belgium (TFB), BE – Coordinator: Yohann Fleury and Vinciane Costa (tutor)

Headmasters: Sophie Geeraerts (Institut Saint-Joseph), Dirk Kerkhoven (Don Bosco Sint-Pieters-Woluwe), Natacha Dumortier and Eric Lambert (C.S. Eperonniers-Mercelis)

Teach First Deutschland (TFD), DE: Eva Ritzenhoff and Verena Wagner

Headmasters: Sonja Rehm-Zimmer (Konkordia-Grundschule), Karsten Reisinger and Silke Schilasky (Grundschule „Am Palitzschhof“)

Foundation EFCoCert, Switzerland: Stéphane Jacquemart

ZŠ Kecerovce, SK: Alena Dávidová (Headmaster), Zuzana Sojková (teacher – TFS fellow)

Quinoa, DE: Pantelis Pavlakidis, Rebecca Ludewig

Institut de la Sainte Famille, BE: Veronica Pellegrini, Bernard Frans, Bertrand Jardon

13 Mar. 2019 Visit of ZŠ a MŠ Veľké Leváre, Slovakia

13 Mar. the CERTI4headmaster partners and the ambassadors schools' headmasters visited ZŠ a MŠ Veľké Leváre, a Slovakian school

At the agenda :

School visit - class observations
Meeting with Teach for Slovakia fellows and ambassadors
Presentation of Teach for Slovakia training scheme

4 online meetings to prepare the next consortium meeting that will take place in Bratislava (13-15 Mar. 2019)

Flash info: The project partners have met online several 4 times in Jan. and in Feb. 2019 to organize the Bratislava transnational meeting. The preparation mainly concerns the organization of activities with the headmasters that will participate to this meeting and who will represent Belgian, German and Slovakian schools.

13-15 Feb. 2019 Participation to a seminar in Dublin

Yohann Fleury, coordinator of the CERTI4Headmaster project was in Dublin, Ireland, to participate to the "Mythbusting European Project Management for Strategic Partnership".

Yohann has presented the CERTI4Headmaster project to attendees and promoted the survey. At the end of his presentation he sent the link of the ongoing survey to interested parties.

5 Dec. 2018 Dissemination activities in Brussel !

The NEWTT Erasmus + project dissemination event was held in Brussels at the Royal Arts Museum.

The diverse multinational project team of Teach for All partners (Bulgaria, Austria, Spain, Latvia, Romania), universities from Duisburg (Germany), Plovdiv (Bulgaria) and Bucharest (Romania), politicians (Eva Maydell Paunova, European Member of Parliament for Bulgaria and Denitsa Sacheva, Deputy Minister of Education & Sciences of Republic of Bulgaria), E.U. Representatives (Themis Christophidou, DG for Education, Youth and Culture and Xavier Prats Monné, former Director General at European Commission DG Education and current Special Advisor of Teach for All about Education) and the Federation of Austrian Industry were present.

For Teach For Belgium representatives, the event was also a good place to meet teachers, headmaster, and tutors from the Teach for All Network, to talk about our project CERTI4Headmasters and to promote the first project survey about in-school teacher support.

28 Nov. 2018 - The survey is online

One of the project's objective is to collect and analyse best practices about the support of (new) teachers by School principals and/or other members of staff or tutors in school.

The survey is one mean to collect these information.

The results will help to produce a catalog of best practices that will be helpful to all interested parties in Europe.

The survey is now online: https://goo.gl/forms/s0653LH1s2fyyBEI3

Please answer it and share the link !!

CERTI4Headmasters project kick-off meeting in Berlin (25-26 Oct. 2018)

The meeting is hosted by Teach First Deutschland

Participants: representatives from Teach For Belgium, Teach First Deutschland, Teach For Slovakia, EFCoCert

Objectives of the meeting:

- inform about the administrative and financial rules

- organize management of the project (steering committee, risks & quality management, dissemination activities)

- have a common understanding of all results to produce

- plan and organize first tasks until next meeting in Bratislava

Kick-off of Strategic Partnership projects in Brussel (26 Sep. 2018)

Meeting organized by AEF-Europe, the Belgian National Agency (French speaking agency).

Objectives of the meeting: information about the administrative and fiancial rules, and about the reporting "Mobility" tool

CERTI4headmasters project partners: Teach For Belgium (BE, coordinator) and EFCoCert (CH)

Objective of both partners: to prepare the European project kik-off meeting planned end of Oct. 2018

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