Leadership of School Consortia Erasmus Project

Project Title

Leadership of School Consortia

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

The focus of this Strategic Partnership was to support the exchange of good practices with the aim of developing a set of support and training resources for leaders managing a group of schools or education establishments to:

• share and confront ideas, practices and methods of multi-institutional leadership
• develop networking to increase transnational working

This project addressed the Horizontal Priority of…
• educators, by strengthening the induction and professional development of multi-institutional school leaders

This project addressed the Horizon Erasmus+ School Priority of…
• strengthening leadership in education, including the role and profile of school leaders and distributed leadership

It brought together five sets of institutions from five countries, all of whom are involved in the leadership of multi-school federations or multi-sectorial schools.

The organisation of school systems has changed significantly in recent years. The UK has seen the development of multi-academy trusts, with groups of schools working together. A similar arrangement of federations of schools operates in Portugal and in other countries, schools have combined phases of education on the same site, from Early Years through to Upper Secondary. In this project, this is the case for the partners from Greece and Bulgaria. Other structures bring together general, vocational and sometimes Higher Education all under the same umbrella. The Spanish partner in this project represented such a structure.

The leadership of these more complex structures is more challenging than running a single institution. This project brought together 5 different types of structures from 5 countries to share their practice, common issues and to explore best practice.

All the objectives were achieved and a set of case studies has been developed and shared through dissemination activities and online.

The case studies were developed through teaching and learning activities, and linked to both the expertise of the schools and the needs of their partners to ensure a clear transfer of innovation. They covered five themes:

• Using the strengths in the partnership to improve standards and the quality of teaching and learning
• Developing inclusion in a socially and ethnically challenging context
• Management of structures and language across the curriculum
• Developing an ethos and exploiting community links
• Teacher training and monitoring the quality of teaching and learning

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 112440 Eur

Project Coordinator

Carmel College & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Alhandra, Sobralinho e S.João dos Montes
• Federación EFAS CV La Malvesia
• Ezikova gimnazia Plovdiv
• PEIRAMATIKO SXOLEIO PANEPISTIMIOU THESSALONIKIS PRIMARY SCHOOL