Personal Leadership The Leader in Me Erasmus Project

Project Title

Personal Leadership The Leader in Me

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The Leader in Me Project concerns the achievement of relevant and high quality skills and competences in the field of school education. It consists on the exchange of experiences in the establishment of the TLM (The leader in me) model in different secondary schools. It includes mobility actions and normative trainings for school directors and staff as well as students.

Its objective was to elaborate a quality education model that provides the academic success of all students, an improvement of motivation and prevent early school leaving. This innovative project followed a methodology based on the 7 Habits of Highly effective People (S. Covey), that are: proactivity, planning, priorities, win-win, understanding, cooperation and balance. These 7 Habits try to obtain the full potential of each student, with the aim of developing their skills and building their leadership facet. Innovation, improvement and leadership are the main motivations driving this project in order to educate students as future responsible citizens of the 21st century. The results of the project are to collect evidence-based best practices for whole student education. Data about how students’ cognitive and non- cognitive skills can be improved by introducing a behavioural model for both character and personality development and how this innovative education process can foster entrepreneurial mind-sets and active & responsible citizenship.

This project aimed to have an impact on all members of the school community: headmasters, teaching staff, administration and technical staff as well as on the students. Therefore representatives of all groups have been selected to participate.
At least two representatives from each partner school has followed sessions regarding basic information. They were responsible for the project management. Each partner has then select a training team that has taken part in a three-day training session. Together with the two persons that followed the introduction session they formed the core team in each partnering school responsible for implementing The Leader in Me method.
Afterwards, each time one person from the core team joined the short training activities, together with one or two new individuals.
Two times two pupils have been selected to participate in two short training activities. These pupils were part of the pupil parliament in each school.

Undertaken activities:
After a kick-off meeting, the FranklinCovey Foundation conducted a three-day training in Scheveningen for staff from the partner schools. At the request of a number of partner schools, a trainer also came to the school itself to give an information session for the school team. Then all partners visited the partner school from Riga that already had some experience with the implementation of TLM at school. To make the project better known to all school partners and easier to implement, two students from each school were also involved. Based on the knowledge gained, all school partners then started working in their own schools.
During the LTT in Italy experiences were exchanged and in the project meeting in Slovenia new mutual agreements were made. The LTT in Greece was cancelled due to covid-19. In the final project meeting, which took place online, the final report was prepared and the results finalized.

Results and impact:
The impact of this project on the partner schools has been substantial. Both staff and pupils have become aware that the problem of lack of motivation and early school leaving cannot be effectively addressed if one does not pay attention to the whole personality of the student. Each school has implemented the methodology of TLM, adapted to its own school culture. A questionnaire has been developed to present objective results. External evaluators have been engaged to study the implementation of the project.
As a result a guide of best practices for secondary schools has been published. Also a range of lessons has been prepared. Information can be found on the project website. Local seminars were planned in every partner country where schools from the region can learn about the experiences of the partners. Due to covid-19 this had to be postponed.
A second important result is the introduction of international contacts in a number of partner schools. In three schools this project has been the reason to participate in new Erasmus projects. In this way, internationalization has found a place in these schools and in the minds of staff and students.

Project Website

http://www.studentleadership.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 85245 Eur

Project Coordinator

Instituut Zusters Maricolen & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Ekonomska in trgovska sola Brezice
• Rigas Juglas vidusskola
• Kallitehniko Gymnasio Geraka me Lykeiakes Taxeis
• I.I.S.S. LICEO ADRIA-BALLATORE
• Instituut Sint-Lutgardis
• Marcel Koning producties