I am pleased to send you further information about the next School Leadership Symposium (SLS) 2013 in Zug/ Switzerland: conference theme, call for proposals, registration, funding, accommodation.

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a) Conference theme

School Leadership Symposium (SLS) 2013

Date: 26^th to 28^th of September 2013

Location: Zug, Switzerland

This largest international conference for school effectiveness, school improvement, and school management in the German speaking countries is hosted by the Institute for the Management and Economics of Education, University of Teacher Education Central Switzerland (PHZ), Zug, in cooperation with Carl Link – a brand of Wolters Kluwer Germany, the Forum Education in Switzerland and the Associations of School Leadership in Switzerland and Germany, and supported by many other partners.

The conference theme is

Transforming Challenges into Opportunities

In the last decades, school leaders face new tasks and challenges. Changes in the educational system have a particularly strong direct impact on the school leaders' roles. But schools, and consequently the pressures and expectations on school leaders, also change as a result of more subtle and indirect forces in society – social, political and economic changes – that are gathering pace across the world as the speed of international development increasingly reflects global factors. At the same time many of the challenges school leaders are facing provide opportunities for improving the quality of education.

 

The School Leadership Symposium 2013 thematically refers to the important areas of school leadership:

-        Classroom Development - Improving Teaching and Instruction: New findings of research into teaching and learning, innovative teaching methods, competence orientation

-        Staff Developoment – Human Resource Management: Dealing with difficult situations in personnel management, systematic personnel management, supporting teacher cooperation

-        Organisation Development: Knowledge management in innovative organisations, school development meeting contemporary demands

-        Quality Management: Benefits and risks of external evaluation/school inspection, quality management systems put to the test

-        System Leadership: Opportunities of cooperation between formal and informal (edu) partners, networked learning communities, collaboration within and between schools

 

Besides, there will be cross-cutting issues:

-        Diversity Management: Diversity as a chance, heterogeneity and what it means for school leadership

-        Health: Job demands and pressures in school and school leadership, health risks and resilience factors, resources for school leadership

-        Failing Schools: School development in difficult circumstances, school turnaround from the education authority’s perspective, experiences with schools facing extreme difficulties

-        Professionalisation of School Leaders: Innovative learning arrangements in PD, impact of PD, school leadership competencies

 

The topics are presented in key note speeches, paper presentations (30-minutes) and worked on in a practice-oriented way in (90- and 180-minute) workshops.

 

Speakers are:

Prof. Dr. Herbert Altrichter (Austria)

Prof. Dr. Neil Dempster (Australia)

Prof. Dr. Uwe Hameyer (Germany)

Prof. Dr. Andreas Helmke (Germany)

Prof. Dr. Andy Hargreaves (USA)

Prof. Dr. Stephan Gerhard Huber (Switzerland)

Prof. Dr. Ellen Goldring (USA)

Prof. Dr. Olof Johansson (Sweden)

Prof. Dr. Leif Moos (Denmark)

PD Dr. Urs Moser (Switzerland)

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Oelkers (Switzerland)

Dr. Hajo Sassenscheidt (Germany)

Prof. Dr. Michael Schratz (Austria)

Prof. Dr. Louise Stoll (Great Britain)

Prof. Dr. Mel West (Great Britain)

and further speakers from science, educational policy, educational authorities, support & continuous professional development institutions and school (leadership) practice.

 

b) Session formats and call for proposals

The deadline for submission of a proposal for a session is April 30, 2013. Session formats for proposals are:

-        30-Minutes Individual Paper Presentation

-        90-Minutes Workshop (Training)

-        180-Minutes Workshop (Training)

 

To submit a proposal for a presentation, please complete the document at:

http://www.edulead.net/2013/proposals.php

Fill in your family and first name as the filename (for example: HuberStephan.rtf) and send it as an email attachment to:

info@EduLead.net

 

c) Registration

Electronic registration is possible from now on at

http://www.edulead.net/2013/registration.php

The deadline for registration is July 31, 2013.

Please note our Early Bird Fees until March 31, 2013.

Having registered you will receive an email confirmation. As the number of participants will be limited, we strongly recommend that you register as soon as possible.

 

d) Funding

The EU Lifelong Learning Programme COMENIUS/GRUNDTVIG grants funding for the School Leadership Symposium to people who are working in the field of school education and/or adult education in 33 European countries.

The course number, the application form and further information about the application for funding for your country can be found here:

http://www.edulead.net/2013/funding.php

The deadline for application for funding is April 30, 2013.

The direct link to the National Agency is:

http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc1208_en.htm

 

e) Accommodation

Hotel accommodation for conference delegates of the International Seminar and School Leadership Symposium 2013 is available in Zug. Please note that special rates will only be available until the dates noted on the reservation form.

Information about accommodation is now available on our website, at:

http://www.edulead.net/2013/travel_accommodation.php

 

f) Videos

For your further information you find videos of the School Leadership Symposium (SLS) 2009 and 2011 on our website:

www.EduLead.net

The newest one you will find with this direct link:

www.EduLead.net/2011/videos.php

 

We are looking forward to seeing you in the wonderful and exciting country of Switzerland in September 2013.