Hoe richt je een directievergadering zo in dat iedereen zich gehoord voelt? Hoe faciliteer je als bestuurder de autonomie van je scholen, en hoe zorg je ervoor dat je als schoolleider zelf achter het stuur blijft zitten?

In deze aflevering onderzoeken we het concept 'samenspel'. Puck de Boer spreekt met Nico de Haas (bestuursvoorzitter van Stichting Prisma Almere), Michelle Brown (schoolleider van de Driemaster), en Tamara Rumpin (schoolleider van Het Drieluik) over de manier waarop zij hun samenspel hebben ontwikkeld. Loes van Wessum, onderzoeker bij ESHA en senior onderzoeker includerend leiderschap bij het Lectoraat Leraren en lerarenopleiders in inclusieve leeromgevingen bij Windesheim, deelt haar visie op hun samenwerking.

Meer over Stichting Prisma Almere: https://prisma-almere.nl

Meer over de ESHA Academy: https://esha.org/academy

Over het Lectoraat Leraren en lerarenopleiders in inclusieve leeromgevingen: https://www.windesheim.nl/onderzoek/lectoraten/leraren-en-lerarenopleiders-in-inclusieve-leeromgevingen

Teachers are the ones that have the biggest impact on the educational development of our children. But for a teacher to the help our children develop they also must keep developing themselves. And this is where the role of the school leader is very important. How do you help your teachers to develop themselves and how do you set an example?

In this episode we’re accompanied by Michelle Brown, school leader of a Dutch elementary school and Loes van Wessum, associate professor at the university of applied sciences Windesheim and author of multiple HEADstart quality cards on which these podcasts are based upon.

Fran Palokaj speaks with school leaders across Europa about a variety of topics based on ESHA’s HEADstart quality cards developed by Loes van Wessum, Rieneke Pruis and others. These quality cards function as practical tools that you can use to tackle everyday challenges within your organization. Visit https://www.esha.org/headstart to download the HEADstart cards.

Personalised and suitable education requires teachers with strong pedagogical skills to deal with a large and diverse group of students. The internal supervisor coordinator can play an important role in helping the teacher understand the students and their specific learning needs. In other words, the internal supervisor coordinator can help the teacher, and the school leader can help the supervisor.

In this episode we’re joined by Santi Pubill, a teacher from Catalonia, Spain and Dianne Franke-van Ham (AVS Academie) who used to work before as an internal supervisor coordinator in The Netherlands.

More information about:

ADSLL, the association for school heads in Llieda, Catalonia, Spain: https://adsll.wordpress.com

AVS, the Dutch association for school heads: www.avs.nl

Fran Palokaj speaks with school leaders across Europa about a variety of topics based on ESHA’s HEADstart quality cards developed by Loes van Wessum, Rieneke Pruis and others. These quality cards function as practical tools that you can use to tackle everyday challenges within your organization. Visit https://www.esha.org/headstart to download the HEADstart cards.

The pandemic period made clear that the involvement of parents into the education of their children is very important, not only on their school performance, but also for their wellbeing.

In this episode we are going to talk with Luca Lászlò (ESHA Consultant) and Katarina about how to build relationships with the parents and how to get them involved into the education of their children.

Fran Palokaj speaks with school leaders across Europa about a variety of topics based on ESHA’s HEADstart quality cards developed by Loes van Wessum, Rieneke Pruis and others. These quality cards function as practical tools that you can use to tackle everyday challenges within your organization. Visit https://www.esha.org/headstart to download the HEADstart cards.

As a teacher you can make a big impact on your students, but as a collective of teachers, you can make a far bigger impact. Instead of “I can” it becomes “we can”. How can you facilitate teachers to work together as a learning community?

We’re going to talk about collective teacher efficacy together with Georgia Karagianni from the Greece organization Educom+ and Toomas Kruusimägi, headteacher from Estonia. 

More information about:

Georgia Karagianni is head of Secondary Education Directorate of Karditsa prefecture, Greece and president of Educom+ https://educomplus.eu/

Toomas Kruusimägi is headteacher at Tallinn English College, Estonia: https://tik.edu.ee/p/232-dp-in-tallinn-english-college

Fran Palokaj speaks with school leaders across Europa about a variety of topics based on ESHA’s HEADstart quality cards developed by Loes van Wessum, Rieneke Pruis and others. These quality cards function as practical tools that you can use to tackle everyday challenges within your organization. Visit https://www.esha.org/headstart to download the HEADstart cards.

Parents and teachers are the ones who can make the biggest contribution to the learning and development of their children. If parents have positive expectations of their children, or practice homework and reading with them together, this could be advantageous to their learning career. Hence, it can be important for the school to support parents in creating these expectations and environments for their children.

In this episode we’re going to talk with Leendert-Jan Veldhuyzen and Leezan van Wijk about the collaboration between parents and teachers, and more importantly how you as a school leader can empower your teachers to also cooperate with the parents.

More information about:

Leendert-Jan Veldhuyzen is an executive board member of Stichting Kolom in Amsterdam, The Netherlands: https://www.stichtingkolom.nl

Leezan van Wijk is school head of Marnix Gymnasium in Rotterdam, The Netherlands: https://marnixgymnasium.nl

Fran Palokaj speaks with school leaders across Europa about a variety of topics based on ESHA’s HEADstart quality cards developed by Loes van Wessum, Rieneke Pruis and others. These quality cards function as practical tools that you can use to tackle everyday challenges within your organization. Visit https://www.esha.org/headstart to download the HEADstart cards.

Stig Johannessen, president of the Norwegian school head organization and Vasileios Kotoulas from the Greek organization Educom+, are addressing basic questions regarding education of children with disabilities. 

Does the curriculum meet the needs of those children and how about the readiness of teachers to implement these programs effectively? It’s important to keep education for children with special needs inside the classroom, because inclusion in fact means that these children feel they are part of the same group.

More information about:

Norwegian school head organization Skolelederforbundet: https://www.skolelederforbundet.no

Educational organization Educom+: https://educomplus.eu

Fran Palokaj speaks with school leaders across Europa about a variety of topics based on ESHA’s HEADstart quality cards developed by Loes van Wessum, Rieneke Pruis and others. These quality cards function as practical tools that you can use to tackle everyday challenges within your organization. Visit https://www.esha.org/headstart to download the HEADstart cards.

In this episode we are going talk about how to ensure children’s agency in school. Agency means that individuals, in particular children, may choose their way of acting, thus contributing to the construction of their social and cultural context.

Luca László, education consultant, and Petra van Haren, director of ESHA, share their thoughts on how to determine the ‘right amount of risk’ in facilitating agency. And how to encourage and enable teachers and staff within your school to give children the opportunity to express their opinions and practice their decision-making rights.

For more information about ESHA, visit https://www.esha.org/

Fran Palokaj speaks with school leaders across Europa about a variety of topics based on ESHA’s HEADstart quality cards developed by Loes van Wessum, Rieneke Pruis and others. These quality cards function as practical tools that you can use to tackle everyday challenges within your organization. Visit https://www.esha.org/headstart to download the HEADstart cards.

Teachers, arguably, have the most impact on the learning of children. To be more effective at teaching, it’s essential to keep learning themselves. Basically, the teacher should always remain a student!

In this episode we’ll discuss how you could potentially motivate teachers to learn. Fran Palokaj is joined by Neus Caufapé, school principal in Catalonia, Spain, and Claudi Vidal, the head of the Catalan Government Educational Department in Llieda.

More information about:

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How do you empower your teachers to keep on learning? How do you set a good example as a learning school leader? Dutch school leaders Janette Kuipers and Ben den Anker talk about the impact school leaders can have on the learning of teachers.

Janette Kuiper is school leader of OBS De Hasselbraam in Heerhugowaard, The Netherlands, https://dehasselbraam.com

Ben den Anker is school leader of Maurick College in Vught, The Netherlands, https://www.maurickcollege.nl

Fran Palokaj speaks with school leaders across Europe about a variety of topics based on ESHA’s HEADstart quality cards developed by Loes van Wessum, Rieneke Pruis and others. These quality cards function as practical tools that you can use to tackle everyday challenges within your organization. Visit https://www.esha.org/headstart to download the HEADstart cards.